Inaugural Online Rapid National Chess Championship Cycle 2021 (Open/Women’s)

The Chess Federation of Sri Lanka is organizing a comprehensive Online Rapid Chess Championship Cycle for the first time in Sri Lanka starting from the 1st week of June. This event will be the selection event for the International Online Rapid Chess Championships this year.  With the support of the event, all Chess players may stay at home at this difficult time with supporting to grow their Chess Strength. The event will be held on the Chess.com flat form with all the fair play regulations approved by FIDE. The Time Control will be 15 minutes + 10-second increment for each move played.

The event is scheduled in 5 stages:

A. SL National Online Novices Division Chess Championship 2021

Eligibility -  Rating less than 1199 and Unrated for -Open event

                     Rating less than 1099 and Unrated for -Women’s event

1. Western 1 Colombo District

2. Western 2 Gampaha/Kaluthara District

3. Central Kandy/Nuwaraeliya/Mathale Districts

4. Southern Galle/Mathara/Hambantota Districts

5. North Western  Kurunagala/Puttalama Districts

6. Sabaragamuwa Rathnapura/Kegalle/Badulla/Monaragala Districts

7. Northern Eastern, Northern, and Uva Provinces

Only the players residing in the above District or schooling in the District are allowed to play in the region in Novices and Major Divisions. 

The Qualification to a higher category is 10 players for the first 20 players 1 player for every subsequent 5 players in the participant's list.

No of Qualifiers = 10 + {(T-20)/5}  T-Total Players

If there are 50 players in an event 16 players are qualified.

B. SL National Online Majors Division Chess Championships

1.Western 1

2.Western 2

3.Central, Kegalle

4.North Western, Ratnapura

5.Southern

6.Nothern

Eligibility - Selected players from Novices and Rating between 1200-1899 for Open event

                    Selected players from Novices and Rating between 1100- 1599 for Women’s event

The Qualification to Online National Premier is that for the first 20 players in the starting rank list 10 players will qualify and for every subsequent 5 players, an additional 1 player will qualify.

No of Qualifiers = 10 + {(T-20)/5} T-Total Players

If there are 50 players in an event 16 players are qualified.

C. Online SL National (Premier Division) Chess Championship 2021

The final Swiss System event of 11 rounds. All qualified from Major Division and players having more than 1900 (Women over 1600) rating are eligible to participate in the event. The first 16 players will be qualified to the Online National Chess Championship 2021 - Finals

D. Online SL National Chess Championship 2021 - Finals

Stage 1

A Round Robin Event of first 16 players of National B Chess Championships 2021

Stage 2 

Knocked out Event among first 4 players as Semi-Finals and Finals/ Consolation Finals with Two games with playing tie breaks.

Awards

Trophies and Medals will be awarded to the winners in all events and the Championship title for the winner in the age group.

A total of Rs. 180,000/= will be awarded as the cash awards to National Finals stage II  and National Premier Division as given Below:

SL Online National Chess Championship 2021 – Finals

                                       Open                              Women

Champion –               Rs, 40,000/=               Rs. 25,000/=

1st Runner Up –          Rs. 25,000/=             Rs. 15,000/=

2nd Runner Up -         Rs. 12,000/=               Rs. 8,000/= 

 4th Place –                  Rs. 7,000/=                  Rs. 4,000/=

SL Online National (Premier Division) Chess Championship 2021 – Finals

                                      Open                              Women

Champion –                  Rs, 15,000/=            Rs. 10,000/=

1st Runner Up –           Rs. 10,000/=             Rs. 5,000/=

2nd Runner Up -           Rs. 5,000/=              Rs. 3,000/= 

Entry Fees 

SL National (Novices Division) Chess Championships 2021  – Rs. 1,000/= each

SL National (Major Division) Chess Championships 2021  – Rs. 1,200/= each

SL National (Premier Division) Chess Championships 2021  – Rs. 1,500/= each

SL National/ Women’s National  Chess Championships 2021 Finals – Rs. 2,000/= each

The Payment of CFSL registration fee is included in Entry Fee of the Novices and Major Division events. Life members may reduce 200 each from the entry fee and pay.

The Payment should be made before 3 days to the scheduled day of the event to the following account and send the application/ Details as application with a scanned copy of the Bank slip to cfslchessevents@gmail.com. (Before 3 days of the scheduled event). Application without payment proof will not be accepted.

A/C name – Chess Federation of Sri Lanka

Bank – Bank of Ceylon, Bambalapitiya

A/C Number - 718386

The first Events, The SL National (Novices Division CC 2021 – Western I Open (Colombo District) and The SL National (Novices Division CC 2021 – Western II Open (Gampaha & Kaluthara District) Women’s Events will be held on 5th and 6th June 2021 starting from 9.00 a.m.

The 2nd event, The SL National (Novices Division CC 2021 – Western I Women (Colombo District) and The SL National (Novices Division CC 2021 – Western II Open (Gampaha & Kaluthara District) Open Events will be held on 12th and 13th June 2021 starting from 9.00 a.m.

The other schedules will be published on the CFSL Website and the FB Page as soon as possible. The 7 events will be held on 7 consecutive weekends.

Players can use only Laptops or a Desktop with a webcam to play the games. In all times of play in progress, players should join in the zoom meeting with the screen and task Manager shared with the tournament arbiters. The Technical Regulations will be sent to the registered players individually.

All fare play measures are taken during the event and the games after each round will be sent to the Chess.com and FIDE exports for fare play checkings. If any player found guilty in any form of these checks, he/ she will be banned from all types of Chess for 2 years.

We kindly request all Chess players to compete in the event in true sportsmanship and develop you Chess skills even during this Pandemic situation. 

You may be a part of the Sri Lanka National Online Chess Teams as well.

Stay Safe! Play Chess!

Luxman Wijesuriya

President – Chess Federation of Sri Lanka

General Secretary – South Asian chess Council

General Secretary – Commonwealth Chess Association

Vice President – Asian Chess Federation