Shah Sagar, the top seed from India won the 4thBuddhiOpen International Rating Chess Championship convincingly with 8½ points, just giving a draw at the last round to TSS Pieris from Sri Lanka. He played with confidence from the 1st round till the end being more than 200 ELO points ahead even to the No 2, GC Anuruddha from Sri Lanka. Sagar collected 50,000/- Sri Lankan Rupees, gold medal and the beautiful Championship Trophy.

The 4thBuddhi Open tournament was organized by the Buddhi School of Chess and Buddhi Chess Club on behalf of the Chess Federation of Sri Lanka and FIDE for the 4th consecutive year from 1stto 24th September 2013 at the Apsara Hotel, Nittambuwa, Sri Lanka. A total of 327 players from 4 countries, Sri Lanka, India, Nepal and Germany, participated in this 9 round Swiss System event with around 300,000 prize fund.

Nishnt Malhothra also from India took the Silver medal with8 points while GC Anuruddha, the top seed Sri Lankan player managed to win the Bronze medal after tying with FM, TSS Pieris, KPRN Samaranayake and MANy Dhanushka of Sri Lanka with 7 ½ points. Yogesh Gautham, Arjun Sathees, both from India tied with NP Liyanage, Thisura Munasinghe, HLM Hapuarachchi and C Lamahewa for the 7th place with 7 points.

WIM, Nelunika Methmani became women’s Champion after tying with WIM, National Women’s champion, Sachini Ranasinghe with 6 ½ points. KWDMID Koswatte and SCT Kumari tied for the women’s 3rd place with 6 points each. The category prize winners;