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Let’s focus on making this group represent true Sri Lankan pride. It’s time to reconsider having non-Sri Lankans in the Sri Lankan jersey. Over the years, despite giving opportunities, the results haven’t lived up to expectations. I take responsibility for this oversight. Moving forward, I believe it’s in our best interest to keep this team exclusively Sri Lankan. What do you all think?

The only international rated school team chess tournament in Sri Lanka, "The Battle of the Kings" is back for its 25th edition. The longest running tournament organized by a school will be taking place on the 23rd and 24th of April at the Royal College main hall. Registration Deadline - 22nd April If your school wants to register call 0710920039 #BattleoftheKings#visioncare#RoyalCollegeChess#RCPS'22

This group is inactive. I shall rum an election. Vote for who you want to win and ill message staff with results

It's with great joy that we announce that Team Sri Lanka registered its' 400th Member today! A big 'thank you' to Doc & Avishka and all the others who made this possible! Let us all get together and do our best to make TSL the best group in the site! Viva Team Sri Lanka!!!

Dozens play chess in public to defy SF crackdown SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - At least for an afternoon, the chess players were back at the usual spot they've occupied for years along downtown San Francisco's busy Market Street. But instead of hustling a dollar here and a dollar there with deft openings and clever traps, the mostly homeless players and their supporters were playing Sunday in defiance of a recent police crackdown and ban on the public games. And they were backed by a brass band and several homeless advocates who helped organize the three-hour "chess-in" under bright, blue skies on a hot San Francisco afternoon. Earlier this month, police confiscated chess gear, tables and chairs at the site. Police said the games had begun to attract illegal gambling and drug sales to the area adjacent to a cable car terminal, which is a popular tourist destination. Nearby merchants had also complained about an increase in illegal activity. "We don't mind the chess players and would like to have them back," said Cody Hunt, manager of an electronics store in front of which the games were played. "But lately, the games have attracted loud dice games and open drug deals, and nobody needs that." The chess players argue that the police response to the illegal activity that took place near the games was heavy-handed and indiscriminate. "Have the drug deals stopped because chess has been banned?" said Andrew Resignato, a San Francisco resident who would play a game along Market Street occasionally. "It was an excuse to move homeless people away from here." San Francisco police didn't return a phone call Sunday. Police Capt. Michael Redmond told the San Francisco Chronicle last month that he agreed the chess players themselves weren't the problem. But others used the games as a shield for illegal activities. Redmond said arrests and complaints from merchants increased in the area. "It's turned into a big public nuisance," Redmond said. "I think maybe it's a disguise for some other things that are going on." Hector Torres Jr., a homeless man who scratched out a living renting his chess equipment, tables and chairs to Market Streets players, said the games were a San Francisco tradition that attracted all sorts of players from all walks of life. Torres and others said it's unclear whether regular games will resume in their usual spots, someplace else or disappear forever. "Chess isn't a crime, and we aren't criminals," Torres said as he knocked over his king in resignation of a game. "San Francisco is about this kind of stuff. About diversity and differences. We just want to play chess."

Please note that we are attempting to revive Team Sri Lanka in the Chess.com World League. Team Sri Lanka has lost all 2011 matches by default. The current admins have not been responding to Team Match requests. Admins: Please either start accepting/issuing the team match challenges as scheduled so that your team members can participate or perhaps you could promote a volunteer to your admin team that could take care of issuing/accepting the world league team matches. Team Members: If you would like to participate in the World League, please show your support in this thread. If there are any volunteers that would like to administer these matches for Team Sri Lanka, please let us know. It is very easy and not time consuming. As a last resort we may need to create a new team for Sri Lanka to participate in the World League. Thanks,Daws