Passed Pawns Chess Club ‘A’ Division Champions

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.

Now with the champions of all three divisions found, the top four teams of ‘A’ Division will battle it out on Sunday (24) to decide the Rapid Teams Chess Cup Champions.

The CFSL has made arrangements to live stream the semi-finals and the final conducted on chess.com with former national champions, Dulan Edirisinghe and newly elected FIDE trainer, Rajeendra Kalugampitiya providing commentaries.

In the semi-finals, the ‘A’ Division Champions, Passed Pawns Chess Club will be joined by Fischer Chess Club ‘B’, Chess Champs Academy and Fisher Chess Club ‘A’.

Winning teams of ‘A’ Division

Champions: Passed Pawns Chess Club –Dasuni Hansika Mendis, Dauletova Gulmira, Sachini Ransinghe, Pasindi Wijesuriya, Tharushi Sandeepani.

First Runner Up:

Fischer Chess Club ‘B’- Rumethma Thennakoon, W.M.M.N. Wijesingha, Suchini Manisha Gunarathne, Chanethma Devangi Marasinghe, Chamodya Yapa Bandara.

Chess Champs Academy –

Dinushki Premanath, C.T. Koswatte, Sharma Isha, Saumy Zainab, Premanath Presana.