SL starts well at World Youth Chess Tourney

On Aug 8, 2021

Haritha Hansana of Rahula College, Matara and Sandeepani Tharushi of Devi Balika MV performed well in the Under-12 and Under-16 events of the FIDE Online World Youth Chess Championship, which is now in progress.

Both are in a good position after having collected a total of three points out of four games.

Hansana beat Loiis Khoo (Norway), Noam Ostrovesky (Israel) and Thimothy Xie (USA) but lost to Dentchouk Emmanuel (USA) in the last round.

Meanwhile, Tharushi beat Adity Anant (Cypress), Alexandra Munos (Nicaragua), Gabriel Salarza (Peru) and lost to Ruiyang Yan (USA) in the second round.

The FIDE Online World Youth Rapid Chess Championship is conducted by the International Chess Federation and is organised by the Georgian Chess Federation.