Hardware for Vinuda Shenal, Haritha Shavina, W A N Senpathi and Thishanuga P

The Major’s division events of the National Chess Championship cycle was started in this weekend with the firecrackers of Western 1 Women’s, Western 2 Open, Central Open and Northern Women’s events. It took little longer for finalizing the results till the fair play reports.

Finally, in the Western 1 Women’s event, Oshini Devindya Gunawardena of Furguson High School Rathnapura was able to win the throne with the form she continued from round 1. She has won all 7 points out of the 7 rounds she played. It’s a usual result expected since she is the newly elected World Youth Online Chess Champion in under 10 Years Girls this Year.

Sinlay Thanujana(Gothami BMV, Colombo 10) placed 2nd scoring 6 ½ points out of 7 to earn the Silver Medal while Nimansa Sandanayake(Musaeus College) placed 3rd with 6 points out of 7 games and won the Silver Medal.

B Jayodya Rasindu Rashmika Perera of Sri Sumangala College, Panadura won the silver medal of the respective event by winning 5.5 points out of the 7 rounds with a walkover in the first round. He was also able to remain unbeaten and Only shared the games he played in the second, fourth and seventh rounds with Liyanage Savinu, Liyanage Daham Kusalwin and Gunathilake and Vinuda Shenal respectively. Though he scored 5.5 points same as Rasindu, Senuja Dilmith Udahamullage (Kaluthara Vidyalaya) had to placate with the third position due to the disadvantage in tie-brakes.

Jenith Wiratunge

Yonal Sumanathilake

Unbeaten Jenith Wiratunge of Trinity College acheived the Gold medal in the Central Open event with a score of 6 ½ points out of 7 games. He scored 6 wins giving only one draw to Ranjan Damsara in the 1st round. Yonal Sumanathilake(Royal International School) won the Silver medal in the better tie breaker after tying with 6 points each with Disal Nimsara Weerasekara of Sri Chandananda Buddhist College, Kandy. Dishal had to satisfy with the Bronze Medal.

After a tough war P Thishanuga of Vembady Girls High School, Jaffna was able to win the championship of the Northern Women’s event with the 6 points she won and the advantage of tie brakes. The only game she lost was played against Narthavi S. Meanwhile, G H S Sanulya of Polonnarywa Royal Primary College had to satisfy with the silver medal due to less tie braking points and the only game she lost was played with Thishanuga P, the winner of event. S Narthavi of Vembady Girls High School, Jaffna was able to win the bronze medal with the 5 points out of 7 rounds.

This National Chess Championship Cycle is the selection event for the International Online Rapid Chess Championships in the future. The event will help all Chess players to stay at home at this difficult time with supporting to grow their Chess Strength. The event is being held on the Chess.com flat form with all the fair play regulations approved by FIDE.

The Time Control will be 15 minutes + 10-second increment for each move played

The Remaining Major Division events will be held in 2 Weeks ends: 9th & 10th October 2021 – Western I (Open), North Western &Uva with Rathnapura (Open), Western II (Women), and Southern (Women)

16th & 17th October 2021- Northern (Open), Southern Open Central With Kegalle (Women), and North Western & Uva with Ratnapura (Women)

The event is scheduled in 6 stages:
2. SL National Online Majors Division Chess Championships
1. Western 1
2. Western 2
3. Central, Kegalle
4.North Western, Ratnapura
5. Southern
6. Northern

The Qualification to Online National Premier is that for the first 20 players in the starting rank list 10 players will qualify and for every subsequent 5 players, an additional 1 player will qualify.
No of Qualifiers = 10 + {(T-20)/5} T-Total Players
If there are 50 players in an event 16 players are qualified.