FIDE Masters Susal De Silva(Nalanda College) and Minul Doluweera (University of Colombo) scored 4 ½ points each out of possible 9 games at the end of the above event scoring the highest performance of a Sri Lankan player made in an Asian Continental Chess Championship ever. Being initially ranked 63rd and 61st according to their current FIDE Ratings, Susal managed to placed 36th while Minul 42nd in the final Ranking. Susal played with 1 Grand Master, 4 International Masters and 2 FMS and all 9 players are more than 150 ELO Points above him and scored a point with an FM and took 3 draws with International Masters. Minul also played with 1WGM, 1Im and 3 FMs in his 9 games where the average ratings of the opponents are more than 2200.

Theekshana Denuwan of Ananda College finish just ½ a point behind the above two which included a quick win against an International Master from Kyrgyzstan. He also beat the Women Grandmaster, Gulmira Dauletova of Kazakhstan. The National Chess Champion is the most unluckiest throughout the event. After winning his first game with the Grandmaster from Iran he got most progressive opponents round by round even he was at the lower stage of points. He met 4 grand masters and two IMS where he got 1 ½ points out of 4 GMS. Ranindu has already selected to play the FIDE Chess World Cup 2021 in this July at Russia. This event is a great experience for them and it will result great support when they play in the Asian Zonal Chess Championship 2021 in Early June 2021.

Grand Master from Uzbekistan Vokihidov Shamsiddin tied with and Singapore International Master Tin Jingyao in the first place with 7 points out of 9 games but former won the Gold medal with the better tie breaker. Another five players Australian Grand Master Kuybukarov Temur, Iran Grandmaster, Amin Tabtabei, Grand Masters from Uzbekistan Nodirbek Yukubboev and Sindarov Javokin and Indonesian International Master Ervan Mohamad tied for the 3rd place with 6 ½ points each. Australian Master won the Bronze medal according to the better tie breaker, The 8th and 9t places went to Gan-Erdene Sugar of Mongolia and Lu Shanglie of China and Both of them also qualified for the FIDE World Cup since two of above players are already selected from earlier events.

A total of USD 16000 was awarded to the winners as cash prizes by the Asian Chess Federation giving 5,000 USD for the winner. Also the top 7 players of the event were qualified to play the FIDE World Chess Cup to be held in Russia from July 2021.

A total of USD 16000 was awarded to the winners as cash prizes by the Asian Chess Federation giving 5,000 USD for the winner. Also the top 7 players of the event were qualified to play the FIDE World Chess Cup to be held in Russia from July 2021.