The 500th Chess Coaching Camp of the ANATOLY KARPOV CHESS CLUB was conducted very successfully by Woman Fide Master and Fide Instructor Suneetha Wijesuriya who is the Founder President and the Chief Instructor of the Anatoly Karpov Chess Club of the Russian Centre in Colombo recently at the 3rd Annual National Sports Exhibition of Sri Lanka SPORTEX – 2018 which was held at BMICH and organized by SPORTSINFO.
This was a result
of the invitation made by Mr. Thilan Rangana, Chairman and the Managing
Director of SPORTSINFO, who was the chief organizer of SPORTEX 2018, to
Mrs. Wijesuriya, President of the ANATOLY KARPOV CHESS CLUB, most prestigious
and most active chess club in Sri Lanka.
This year Anatoly
Karpov Chess Club celebrates double jubilee, i.e. 20th Anniversary (1998
- 2018) and there were 500 chess workshops conducted island wide by Mrs.
Suneetha Wijesuriya and their team in this period.
Picture
shows: Hon. Arjuna Ranatunga, Minister of Petroleum Resources Development
of Sri Lanka is seen here presenting a chess board to Methnula Hewawasam.
From left Mr. Thilan Rangana, Chairman of SPORTSINFO, Mrs. Suneetha Wijesuriya,
President of the Anatoly Karpov Chess Club, Mrs. Anastasia Khokhlova,
First Secretary of the Embassy of the Russian Federation and the Director
of the Russian Centre in Colombo and Mr. Buddhapriya Ramanayaka; CEO of
the Russian Centre are also in the picture.