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Dimuth Indeepa Samarweera
of DS Senanayake College made the Chess history by winning the Inaugural
Sri Lanka Youth Chess Grandprix yesterday at the Chess Federation of Sri
Lanka Headquarters, Nugegoda. Dimuth who was performing extremely well
from the 1st round has no hesitation in beating his schoolmate, Senuka
Ahangama 1 ½ - ½ at the super finals held yesterday. He
drew his first game and won the 2nd game convincingly. He was awarded
the Championship Trophy, Gold Medal and a cash award of Rs. 25,000/=.
Dimuth beat one of his schoolmates, Pesandu Liyanage in the Semi Finals
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Senuka Ahangama also
from DS Senanayake College had to satisfy with the 2nd place getting the
Silver Medal with Rs. 15,000/= cash award. Senuka became the group Championship
in Group X earlier and came to the final after a strong battle with Shenal
Gunathilake of Royal College in the Semifinals. Peasndu Liyanage over came with Vinuda Shenal Gunathilake in the consolation finals and placed third with the Bronze Medal and Rs. 10,000/= in cash. The match they played was 1 each and Pesandu beat Vinuda on the first tie breaker, the Rapid Games. Peasandu beat Vinuda in both Rapid Games. The 1st, 2nd and 3rd, all three places went to DS Senanayake College Colombo. |
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A total of 20 top under
14 years Chess players participated in this strongest youth Chess Championship
conducted by the Chess Federation of Sri Lanka for the first time in the
Chess history. The event is scheduled in a new format as 20 players are
divided in to two groups with equal strength. So two, ten player round
robin (9 rounds) events were played on 8th, 9th, 15th and 16th of August
2020. Then the Champion and the runner up in the groups played a knocked
out as X winner Vs Y Runner Up, Y winner with X runner up as semifinals
and then the finals between the winners. |
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The knocked out stage,
each match had two games with different colours and tie breaks was two
games with rapid play in two colours followed by two blitz games and if
still tied, a sudden death game. The whole tournament games were live
webcasted. |
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Mr. Luxman Wijesuriya,
the expected President of CFSL who is the General Secretary of South Asian
Chess Council and a Vice President of Asian Chess Federation was the Chief
guest at the prize distribution ceremony with the Chief Arbiter Dayal
Siriwardena and Mr. Erosh Jayasinghe, the Treasurer of CFSL. |
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