Sachini D. Ranasinghe (born 1994), also known as S.D. Ranasinghe, is a

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to dist ...

player who holds the title of

Woman International Master FIDE titles are awarded by the international chess governing body FIDE (''Fédération Internationale des Échecs'') for outstanding performance. The highest such title is Grandmaster (GM). Titles generally require a combination of Elo rating and ...

(WIM, 2011). She is the first Sri Lankan player to get awarded the title of Woman International Master and only Sri Lankan player to win Asian zonal 3.2 chess championship and participate at the World chess Cup in 2012. She is a five-time winner of the Sri Lankan Women's Chess Championship (2009, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2022). She is the strongest Sri Lankan women chess player in this era.

Biography

Born in Abu Dhabi, Sachini was first introduced to chess by her brother Sahan Ranasinghe. She began playing chess in the

Anatoly Karpov Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov ( rus, links=no, Анато́лий Евге́ньевич Ка́рпов, p=ɐnɐˈtolʲɪj jɪvˈɡʲenʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ˈkarpəf; born May 23, 1951) is a Russian and former Soviet chess grandmaster, former World Che ...

chess club at the Russian Center in Sri Lanka and have trained under several renowned chess players, including her current coach Ransith Fernando. Sachini appeared in TV commercials as a child and was also the brand ambassador for Acnes Sri Lanka. To interest little children about the game of chess, she wrote a book called ''Thumula and his strange army''.

Championships

She won the Sri Lanka Women's Chess Championship in 2009, 2011, 2012 and 2013. In 2011, she won the Asian Zonal Women's Chess Championship and won the right to participate in the Women's World Championship. In 2012, in

Khanty-Mansiysk Khanty-Mansiysk ( rus, Ха́нты-Манси́йск, Khánty-Mansíysk, lit. ''Khanty-Mansi Town''; Khanty: , ''Jomvoćś''; Mansi: , ''Abga'') is a city and the administrative center of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug–Yugra, Russia. It stand ...

made her debut at the

Women's World Chess Championship The Women's World Chess Championship (WWCC) is played to determine the world champion in women's chess. Like the World Chess Championship, it is administered by FIDE. Unlike with most sports recognized by the International Olympic Committee, whe ...

, where in the first round she lost to

Hou Yifan Hou Yifan ( ; born 27 February 1994) is a Chinese chess grandmaster, four-time Women's World Chess Champion and the second highest rated female player of all time.

. She played for Sri Lanka at three

Women's Chess Olympiads A woman is an adult female human. Prior to adulthood, a female human is referred to as a girl (a female child or adolescent). The plural ''women'' is sometimes used in certain phrases such as "women's rights" to denote female humans regardl ...

(2010, 2016, 2018) and three Women's Asian Team Chess Championships (2008—2009, 2016).

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