Sachini Ranasinghe

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Sachini D. Wijenusandra Ranasinghe ( Tamil சச்சினி ரணசிங்க , with the World Chess Federation FIDE S D Ranasinghe ; born June 23, 1994 ) is a Sri Lankan chess player . She is the first female chess player in Sri Lanka's International Women's Champion (WIM) and a four-time winner of the Sri Lankan Women's Individual Championship.

Life

Sachini Ranasinghe visited the Karpov Chess Club in the Russian cultural center in Colombo . Until 2013 she attended Musaeus College, a private girls' school in Colombo named after Marie Musaeus Higgins . She is a chess trainer at Musaeus College.

successes

In 2009 she won the Sri Lankan women's individual championship for the first time in Colombo with 12.5 points from 14 games. Again she was Sri Lankan champion in 2011 in Katubedda, Moratuwa , this time with 12 points from 13 games. For the third time she won the women's championship in 2012 in Colombo, for the fourth time in 2013 with 12 points from 13 games also in Colombo.

In 2011 she won the Zone Tournament of women in Colombo before Akter Liza Shamima and received the title of International Master Women (WIM). She qualified by winning the zone tournament for the 2012 women's chess championship in Khanty-Mansiysk , where she lost 2-0 to Hou Yifan in the first round .

For the Sri Lankan women's national team, Sachini Ranasinghe played on the second board at the 2008 Asian Championships in Visakhapatnam and on the top board at the 2009 Asian Championships in Calcutta and 2016 in Abu Dhabi . In Abu Dhabi she scored half a point each against the Vietnamese IM Phạm Lê Thảo Nguyên and the Uzbek WGM Nafisa Muminova . At the 2010 Women's Chess Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk, she achieved an even score of 4.5 out of 9 on the reserve board. At the 2016 Chess Olympiad in Baku , she played on the top board in the women's national team. At the 2018 Chess Olympiad in Batumi she had a positive result with 6.5 points from 11 games on the third board.

Her Elo number is 1752 (as of April 2020), her highest Elo number was 1913 in March 2012.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sachini Ranasinghe aims to be a women's chess 'grand master' . Article by Natasha Fernadnopulle on April 26, 2012 in the Sri Lankan Daily Mirror
  2. ↑ Sri Lanka Women's National Chess Championship 2009 on Chess-Results.com
  3. ↑ Chamika And Sachini wins Chess Nationals 2011 . Press release of the Sri Lankan Chess Federation from June 20, 2011 ( PDF , 531 kB; English)
  4. ↑ Isuru and Sachini wins the Sri Lanka National Chess Titles . Article on lankachess.com (English)
  5. ↑ Isuru and Sachini National Champions of Sri Lanka Against . Report on lankachess.com (English)
  6. ↑ The Asian Women's Team Championships Sachini Ranasinghes on olimpbase.org (English)
personal data
SURNAME Ranasinghe, Sachini
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ranasinghe, SD (FIDE); Ranasinghe, Sachini D .; Wijenusandra Ranasinghe, Sachini (Martial Arts Games); ரணசிங்க, சச்சினி (Tamil)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sri Lankan chess player
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1994