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Sri Lankan teens win Silver & Bronze at World Chess event

Dec 15, 2016
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Harashana Tillekaratne of Maliyadeva College, Kurunegala won the silver medal in the Under 13 age group and Niklesha Tharushi of Visakha Vidyalaya, Colombo has bagged the Bronze medal in the under 13 girl’s category at the World Schools Chess Championship that was held in Sochi, Russia

Harshana missed the gold medal by 0.5 to Abdusattorov Nodirbek of Uzbekistan. At the 2014 World Schools Chess Championship held in Brazil Harshana bagged the gold medal in the Under 10 age category.

Nearly 30 school-age national level chess players from all over the island took part in the event.

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