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by Reemus Fernando Sri Lanka team including top-ranked national player Susal de Silva who is aspiring to become the country’s first Grand Master have missed the vital opportunity of taking part in the World Junior Chess Championships in Italy after the Italian Embassy in Colombo denied the young chess players appointments for visa interviews The […]
Uniindia: Colombo, Oct 13 (UNI) The Sri Lankan team has missed out on taking part in the World Junior Chess Championships in Italy after the Italian embassy here denied the young players appointment for visa interviews, a newspaper reported on Thursday.
CFSL Online Women’s Rapid Teams Chess Cup 2021
Passed Pawns Chess Club captained by Sachini Ranasinghe won the ‘A’ Division title of the first ever CFSL Online Women Rapid Teams Chess Cup organized by the Chess Federation of Sri Lanka on Sunday.
The team also inclusive of Kazakhstan woman grand master Dauletova Gulmira, national runners up Tharushi Sandeepani, Dasuni Hansika Mendis and Pasindi Wijesuriya took the title pushing Fischer Chess Club ‘B’ to the runner up position.
CFSL had ranked teams according to their strengths and the five strongest teams were drawn in ‘A’ Division. ‘B’ Division champions Sokians CC and first and second runners up Fischer Chess Club ‘B’ and Castle Siege Chess Club respectively also joined the fray making it a competition of eight teams involving 40 players.