{"id":15540,"date":"2021-03-04T00:41:46","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T00:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1090.fide.com\/?p=15540"},"modified":"2023-10-27T09:04:17","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T09:04:17","slug":"university-of-sri-jayawardenapura-wins-sri-lanka-inter-club-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/university-of-sri-jayawardenapura-wins-sri-lanka-inter-club-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Sri Jayawardenapura wins Sri Lanka Inter Club Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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University of Sri Jayawardenapura Chess Club team emerged as a champion of Sri Lanka National Inter Club Super League Chess Championship 2021 with two rounds to spare. The team turned in a dominating performance scoring 17 out 18 possible and finished 5 points ahead of the runner-up, Anandians.<\/p>

The National Chess Champion,\u00a0Ranindu Dilshan Liyanage<\/strong>\u00a0showed the best result (8 \u00bd out of 9) and passed the 2200 raring mark. \u00a0Chamika Perera<\/strong>, \u00a0SL National Chess Champion of 2011, performed his captain duties very well and contributed \u00a0\u00a08 points in 9 games.\u00a0Lakshitha Randhil<\/strong>\u00a0did a great job on the first board netting 6 points (no losses).<\/p>

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The strongest team event in the country, the Sri Lanka National Inter Club Chess Championship 2021 was held by the Chess Federation of Sri Lanka from February 26 to March 2, 2021 at Sanhinda hall, Gangodawila. The round-robin event attracted the top ten local chess clubs. The last two teams in the final standings were relegated to the SL National Inter Club B Championship whereas the two best will play in the top league next year.<\/p>

Anandians Chess Club won the silver medal with the better tiebreaks after tying with Super Knight Chess Club team with 12 points.\u00a0Theeksana Denuwan<\/strong>\u00a0played a key role in Anandians\u2019 success scoring 7 points out of 9.<\/p>

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Kudos to Super Knights the only team that debuted in Super League after qualifying from Inter Club B last year. The renitent newcomers showed some spine and took bronze.<\/p>

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The games with commentaries by the former National Chess Champions, Dulan Edirisinghe, and Harshana Thilakarathne were streamed on Chess Federation of Sri Lanka FB page.<\/p>

Final standings<\/strong>:<\/p>

1. University of Sri Jayawardenapura CC \u2013 17
2. Anandians CC \u2013 12
3. Super Knights CC \u2013 12
4. Blue and Gold CC \u2013 11
5. SL Navy CC \u2013 11
6. Sokians CC \u2013 9
7. Grand Prix CC \u2013 5
8. Kandy YMCA \u2013 5
9. Maroons CC \u2013 4
10. Black and Gold CC \u2013 4<\/p>

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Ranindu Dilshan Liyanage receiving a prize for the best performance in the event<\/em><\/p>

Board prize winners<\/strong>:<\/p>

Board 1 \u2013 Laksith Randhil (USJP CC)
Board 2 \u2013 Damith Karunarathne (Blue Gold CC)
Board 3 \u2013 Chamil Priyankara (SL Navy CC)
Board 4 \u2013 CM WCC Perera (USJP CC)
Board 5 \u2013 FM Minul Doluweera (Blue & Gold CC)
Board 6 \u2013 CM Ranindu Dilshan Liyanage (USJP CC)
Board 7 \u2013 TN Alahakoon (Grand Prix CC)
Board 8 \u2013 S Harishman (Blue & Gold CC)<\/p>

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University of Sri Jayawardenapura Chess Club team emerged as a champion of Sri Lanka National Inter Club Super League Chess Championship 2021 with two rounds to spare. The team turned in a dominating performance scoring 17 out 18 possible and finished 5 points ahead of the runner-up, Anandians. The National Chess Champion,\u00a0Ranindu Dilshan Liyanage\u00a0showed the best result (8 \u00bd out of 9) and passed the 2200 raring mark. \u00a0Chamika Perera, \u00a0SL National Chess Champion of 2011, performed his captain duties very well and contributed \u00a0\u00a08 points in 9 games.\u00a0Lakshitha Randhil\u00a0did a great job on the first board netting 6 points (no losses). The strongest team event in the country, the Sri Lanka National Inter Club Chess Championship 2021 was held by the Chess Federation of Sri Lanka from February 26 to March 2, 2021 at Sanhinda hall, Gangodawila. The round-robin event attracted the top ten local chess clubs. The last two teams in the final standings were relegated to the SL National Inter Club B Championship whereas the two best will play in the top league next year. Anandians Chess Club won the silver medal with the better tiebreaks after tying with Super Knight Chess Club team with 12 points.\u00a0Theeksana Denuwan\u00a0played a key role in Anandians\u2019 success scoring 7 points out of 9. Kudos to Super Knights the only team that debuted in Super League after qualifying from Inter Club B last year. The renitent newcomers showed some spine and took bronze. The games with commentaries by the former National Chess Champions, Dulan Edirisinghe, and Harshana Thilakarathne were streamed on Chess Federation of Sri Lanka FB page. Final standings: 1. University of Sri Jayawardenapura CC \u2013 172. Anandians CC \u2013 123. Super Knights CC \u2013 124. Blue and Gold CC \u2013 115. SL Navy CC \u2013 116. Sokians CC \u2013 97. Grand Prix CC \u2013 58. Kandy YMCA \u2013 59. Maroons CC \u2013 410. Black and Gold CC \u2013 4 Ranindu Dilshan Liyanage receiving a prize for the best performance in the event Board prize winners: Board 1 \u2013 Laksith Randhil (USJP CC)Board 2 \u2013 Damith Karunarathne (Blue Gold CC)Board 3 \u2013 Chamil Priyankara (SL Navy CC)Board 4 \u2013 CM WCC Perera (USJP CC)Board 5 \u2013 FM Minul Doluweera (Blue & Gold CC)Board 6 \u2013 CM Ranindu Dilshan Liyanage (USJP CC)Board 7 \u2013 TN Alahakoon (Grand Prix CC)Board 8 \u2013 S Harishman (Blue & Gold CC) Text and photo:\u00a0Godigamuwa Wijesuriya<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15542,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[49,261],"regular":[],"sticky-post":[],"class_list":["post-15540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chess-news","tag-national-championships","tag-srilanka"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15540"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15545,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15540\/revisions\/15545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15540"},{"taxonomy":"regular","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regular?post=15540"},{"taxonomy":"sticky-post","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sticky-post?post=15540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}