Buddhika Amarasinghe is Asia Amateur Chess Champion; Baimurzin Aitkazy is Asia Senior Chess Champion

Hello chess blog friends, some chess news from Asia - Buddhika Amarasinghe of Sri Lanka has won the Asian Amateur Chess Championship 2014 and Baimurzin Aitkazy of Kazakhstan has won the Asian Senior Chess Championship 2014.

The Asian Amateur and Senior Championships 2014 was held from 5th to 12th December 2014 at the beautiful Citrus Resort Hotel. On behalf of the Asian Chess Federation, the Chess Federation of Sri Lanka organized the event. Ten Countries, Brunei, India, Iran, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Maldives, New Zealand, UAE with Sri Lanka participated in the events.

Osheen De Silva and PD Senanayake tied with 7 points at the Asian Amateur Championship and Osheen won the Boronze medal with better tie breaker. Play offs were conducted for finding the Asian Amateur Women and Unrated prizes. Sri Lanka Women’s National Champion Dasuni Hansika Mendis won the Championship convincingly. Naduni Abeywardena of Sri Lanka won the Silver Medal while Miyuni Kavinya Rajapaksa of Sri Lanka won the Bronze Medal. Young Dinithi Panchali Rathnayake, Women Candidate Master from Sri Lanka won the unrated category while Nihaya Ahmed from Maldives won the Silver Medal. Himya Ibrahim won the bronze in unrated category.

FIDE Master Sawadkuhi Massoud of Iran won the second place with 7 points. But, on the regulations he opted for the Asian Senior over 65 years Chess Championships, but he also opted for the second place cash Award. Ismail Ahmed, 6.5 points of Malaysia won the 3rd place but awarded the silver due to Mr. Massoud opted for Gold in over 65 event. Women Candidate Master Mrs. Helan Miligran with 6 points opted the Bronze medal instead of the Asian Senior Women Championship with another hope of a title. TDR Pieris of Sri Lanka tied with Ms Milligan but had to be 4th on the tie breaker. Abdulla Ibrahim and Ahmed Naeem, both from Maldives won the Silver and Bronze Medals of the Asian Senior Championships 2014 respectively. (News input via FIDE)


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Asia Amateur, Seniors Chess in Sri Lanka December 5

Hello chess blog friends, the Asian Seniors and Amateurs Chess Championships is going to take place in Sri Lanka this December. On behalf of the Asian Chess Federation, the Chess Federation of Sri Lanka has made all the arrangements to hold the 5th Asian Seniors and Amateur Chess Championships from 5th to 12th December 2014 at Waskaduwa Sri Lanka. Waskaduwa is a City which is about 75 Km from the Colombo airport and venue will be the Citrus, Waskaduwa on a very nice beach front. 

5th Asian Seniors and Amateur Chess Championships

5th to 12th December 2014 Sri Lanka

The Chess Federation of Sri Lanka, on behalf of the Asian Chess Federation, invites your players to participate in the 5th Asian Seniors and Amateur Championships to be held from 5th to 12th December 2014 in Waskaduwa, Sri Lanka.

Prizes
Total of US$5,000 ($2,200 for the Asian Seniors and $2,800 for the Asian Amateur) as follows:

Asian Seniors 1st $800; 2nd $500; 3rd $300; 4th $200 and 5th $100; Best Woman $300 Best over 65 player 300 Asian Amateur 1st $1000; 2nd $600; 3rd $400; 4th $200 and 5th $100; Best Woman $300 Best Unrated Player $200/

Gold, Silver and Bronze with trophies for Champions will be arranged. All are awarded with certificates.

The Asian Seniors and Amateur Championships are open to all Asian seniors and amateurs players.

The Asian Amateur Championship is open to all eligible players who shall have no FIDE Title or published FIDE Rating above 2000 at the start of the tournament nor had such a Rating for at least 2 years prior to the start of the event.

The ASIAN SENIORS Championship is open to Asian senior players.

All participants must have been born in 1963 or before. The tournament will be played over 9 rounds under the Swiss pairing system. The event will be FIDE-rated and played under the FIDE time control of 90 minutes plus 30 seconds per move starting from move one. The highest rank player in the Age group of more than 65 will be named as the over 65 winner and the women’s the same procedure as Amateur will be used.

The Entries must be submitted on the attached registration form and should be returned together with payment receipt not later than 22 November 2014.

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