Regional Tournament Update
Regional Tourney update Colombo International Tourney Top seed Weerawardane leads after 8 rounds. Jayasoma,Athukorala also on 7/8. Chennai GM Chess Tourney Maxim Turov leads with 8.5/9 with a 2803 performance! Junior Lalith Babu and GM Ziaur Rahman Joint 2nd with two others. Another highlight is the welcome return of IM, WGM Vijayalakshmi Subbaraman. She was in the top 20 in the world (women) Other stand out performers - Anwe...sh Upadhyaya(beat IMs and GM), Siddharth (Untitled,beat GMs), and Niranjan Navalgund (beat higher rated players)