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SL Men’s National Blitz Chess Champion 2020– Ranindu Dilshan

28 August 2020

by globalchess.lk Team 

The Sri Lanka Men's National Blitz Chess Championship was held 21st Friday August 2020 at Sathara Building, Maharagama. 

CM Ranindu Dilshan Liyanage - the number 11 seated player from Ananda College Colombo managed to become the Men's National Blitz Chess Champion 2020 by scoring 100%, and a full point ahead of C.  Lamahewa who became the 1st runner-up with better tiebreak against C.C. Weerasinghe.

The nine rounds event was conducted under the time control of 3 minutes at the start of the game and 2 seconds increment per move for each player. 

The following is the top 20 list from the participation of 243 players. 

Place

Starting Rank

Title

Name

Rating

Points
(Out of Total 9)

1

11

CM

Liyanage Ranindu Dilshan

1798

9,0

2

5

 

Lamahewa C

1947

8,0

3

20

 

Weerasinghe C C

1743

8,0

4

57

 

Senevirathne S D B K

1282

7,5

5

18

FM

Doluweera Minul Sanjula

1762

7,5

6

3

 

Karunaratne D C J

2044

7,0

7

2

FM

Alahakoon Isuru

2091

7,0

8

102

 

Arthigan J

1163

7,0

9

14

 

Amarasinghe A A C B

1782

7,0

10

32

 

Kodithuwakku Lisara

1533

7,0

11

16

 

Somadasa A M T P S

1769

7,0

12

29

FM

De Silva L M S T

1582

7,0

13

7

 

De Silva Osheen

1889

7,0

14

22

 

Harishman S.

1713

7,0

15

48

 

Gamage Ovin Vidmal

1363

7,0

16

15

 

Liyanapathirana Pasan Vindula

1780

7,0

17

27

 

Chandula E D S

1608

6,5

18

47

 

Sivathanujan S

1378

6,5

19

46

CM

Gunarathne Senila Amaneth

1386

6,5

20

52

 

Samarakoon Hevidu

1328

6,5