Susal Thewjan de Silva (also Lokumannage Susal Thewjan De Silva; born 2 August 2006) is a Sri Lankan chess International Master (2022), three times Sri Lankan Chess Championship winner (2021, 2022, 2023).
In Anuradhapura, where he attended Primary School before being selected for Nalanda after passing the scholarship exam in Grade 5, Susal won the West Asian Chess Championship (U12 age group) in 2017 to be crowned the youngest FIDE Master when he was just 11 years old.
[3][4][5] In 2023 de Silva won the silver medal in the Western Asian Youth Chess Championship in the U18 open group.
[7] de Silva played for Sri Lanka in the Chess Olympiads: In 2022, he was awarded the FIDE International Master (IM) title.
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