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Category: Chess in Sri Lanka. ... Sri Lankan Chess Championship This page was last edited on 26 July 2020, at 20:22 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
The Sri Lankan Chess Championship is organised by the Chess Federation of Sri Lanka, and was first held in 1972. The Sri Lankan Women's Chess Championship was first held in 1979. [ 1 ]
She won Sri Lanka's first ever gold medal at a World Chess Olympiad when she achieved it during the 30th Chess Olympiad which was held in Manila in 1992. Up to date, she remains as the only chess player to have won a gold medal at a World Chess Olympiad for Sri Lanka. She has also won the Sri Lankan Women's National Chess Championship title ten ...
Sri Lankan chess prodigy Susal Thewjan de Silva of Nalanda College is the second runner-up in the Sri Lanka National Chess Championship 2020. In Anuradhapura, where he attended Primary School before being selected for Nalanda after passing the scholarship exam in Grade 5, Susal won the West Asian Chess Championship (U12 age group) in 2017 to be crowned the youngest FIDE Master when he was just ...
Pages in category "Sri Lankan chess players" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. D.
She is the sister of Sri Lankan chess player, Suneetha Wijesuriya. [3] She began playing at the age of nine, after her sister Suneetha won a chess set in a competition. [2] She is nicknamed "the Chess Queen of Sri Lanka". [4] Vineetha was a student of Gothatuwa Maha Vidyalaya and Buddhist Ladies College, Colombo 7. Vineetha Wijesuriya has also ...
The Asian Junior Chess Championship is an annual chess tournament open to players in Asia and Oceania (FIDE Zones 3.1 to 3.7) who are under 20 years of age. The tournament has been held annually since 1977 with occasional interruptions.
Romesh Weerawardane (born 22 October 1979) is a Sri Lankan chess player. Weerawardane was the first Sri Lankan to be an International Master. [1] Weerawardane competed in two Chess Olympiads in 2010 and 2016, scoring 2/6 and 2.5/10 respectively. [2] [3] He serves as a FIDE Instructor.