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Sri Lanka National Chess Champions 2017 Champion : Minul Doluweera and Women's Champion: Sayuni Gihansa Jayaweera – {(c) Ruwan Gunarathne)} Rajeendra Kalugampitiya – National Chess Champion 2016 National Chess Champion Isuru Alahakoon 2012-2014.jpg
The CCC was last held in Sri Lanka in 2022 with 198 players took part in the Age Group event, and 98 players in the Open event. The best turnout was in 2013 – hosted by South Africa, when almost 900 players turned out when it had only 2 main sections to offer – the Open section with 314 players, and the challenger event with 567 players.
Chess South Africa [116] 1: 8,599: South African Chess Championship South Korea: 3.3: Korea Chess Federation [117] 1: 2,416: South Korean Chess Championship South Sudan: 4.4: South Sudan Chess Federation: 0: 502: South Sudanese Chess Championship Spain: 1.1c: Federacion Espanola de Ajedrez [118] 59: 74,610: Spanish Chess Championship Sri Lanka ...
Sri Lankan chess prodigy Susal Thewjan de Silva of Nalanda College is the second runner-up in the Sri Lanka National Chess Championship 2020. In Anuradhapura, where he attended Primary School before being selected for Nalanda after passing the scholarship exam in Grade 5, Susal won the West Asian Chess Championship (U12 age group) in 2017 to be crowned the youngest FIDE Master when he was just ...
Chess South Africa (CHESS SA, previously CHESSA) is the national governing body for the sport of chess in South Africa. Chess South Africa is affiliated to the World Chess Federation (FIDE), [2] and to the African Chess Confederation (ACC). Chess South Africa administers the official national chess rating [3] system based on the elo rating ...
A History of Chess in Southern Africa, by Leonard Reitstein (2003), ISBN 978-0-620-29829-2. This covers the period from 1892 until 1945. South African Chessplayer, edited by Leonard Reitstein, published from 1953 to 1986. Guinness Chess: The Records, by Ken Whyld (1986), page 114. This list covers the period from 1892 until 1986.
In October 2020, Ranindu won his first national chess championship title at the age of 16 and became the first schoolboy from Ananda College to become national champion after 20 years. [5] [6] [7] He also later emerged as a winner of the Sri Lanka Chess Grand Prix 2021. [8] He also claimed bronze medal at the 2021 Asian Hybrid Chess Championship.