Sanjeewa and Chenaya clinch Gold Medals

On Jul 13, 2021

Sanjeewa Munasinghe of National Building Research Organization and Chenaya Ekaratne of Musaeus College won Gold Medals at the Western Open category of men’s and women’s of the Sri Lanka National Online Novices Rapid Chess Championship yesterday.Munasinghe obtained 6.5 points out of possible 7 games to finish first. He had six straight wins against Jayod Bodaragamage, Mohamed Wishal, EABT Edirisinghe, Akindu Keerthisinghe, Tharushika Silva and WDRT Wijeratne while drew his last game against Uthpala Amarathunga to win the title.

Uthpala Amarathunga of Super Fighters Chess Club secured the Silver Medal with 6 points out of the possible 7 games while E.A.B.T Edirisinghe of University of Moratuwa also scored 6 out of 7 possible games to finish second but with the lesser tie breaker as he won the Bronze medal.

Meanwhile Chenaya Ekaratne made a fine effort to scoring 7 points out of 7 possible games won a Gold Medal . She beat Nethra Rathnayake, Vihansa Liyanage, Resandi Kiringoda, Jenuki Herath, Tenuki Herath, Thinuli Pathirana and Ananya Perera to grab the championship in great style. (D.R)