Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Romesh Weerawardane
From what I can ascertain, there are four grades of World Chess Federation (FIDE) titles: Grandmasters (players with a rating greater than 2,500, of which there are at least 1,400 players with this title), International Masters (players with a rating between 2400 and 2500, with over 3,000 players with this title), FIDE Master (players with ratings of 2300 or more, for which there are over 5,500 players) and Candidate Masters (players with ratings of 2200 or more). Once achieved, these titles are generally held for life. I personally can not see a case to infer automatic notability on player who is just an International Master. The FIDE rankings currently have Weerawardane as the 47,729th player in the world and 28th player in Sri Lanka. Whilst the FIDE records indicate that he became an International Master in 2013 I can't find any reference to the claim that he was the 'first' IM in Sri Lanka. Also interesting is that his highest FIDE ranking appears to have only been 2,144 (which doesn't appear to qualify for an IM title). In the 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games his record was 2 wins, one draw and four losses. Based on the above I do not feel that he satisfies 
— User:Dan, 09:05, 6 November 2017 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:GNG (Wikipedia:Notability)