Beginners chess clinic for Anna Regina

By Kizan Brumell On In Daily Features |
Errol Tiwari
Errol Tiwari

Chess

 
The Guyana Chess Federation in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture Youth and Sport will convene a one-day chess clinic for beginners on Saturday,  August 8 at Anna Regina. Efforts are underway to have representatives from a wide number of schools attend the workshop, accompanied by some school teachers from the various schools.
In May, Minister Dr. Frank Anthony visited the Essequibo coast accompanied by a representative of the Federation. Minister Anthony distributed some chess sets to the Anna Regina Multilateral Secondary, Abram Zuil’s Secondary and the Cottonfield Secondary schools as a new beginning for chess on the Essequibo. Now the federation is attempting to promote the game, and simultaneously seek new members.

Errol Tiwari
Errol Tiwari

The workshop promises to be a rigorous one that will begin early in the day. Students and teachers from the various schools will be taught the basic rudiments of the game, such as how the pieces move and how a person should read the squares on the chess board. The federation is hoping that an Essequibian team of, say, a dozen players, would be able to compete in this year’s schools’ championships in December in Georgetown.

The final DDL-sponsored chess tournament for the year, the ‘Emancipation Chess Tournament,’ will be played on Saturday, August 1 and Sunday August 2, in an eight-round format with classical time controls. Each player will have 75 minutes on his clock per game. Again, as in the Sasha Cells, these tournaments are formatted to give players adequate practice for the qualification round of the National Championships. The venue for this tournament will be announced in due course.

Canadian grandmaster Mark Bluvshtein defeated an impressive field to win this year’s Canadian Open Chess Championship that was held recently in Edmonton. Bluvshtein finished ahead of renowned grandmasters Alexei Shirov  and Michael Adams, both ranked at one time or the other among the top ten in the world. In the 2005 edition of the championship, Bluvshtein defeated Shirov in their individual encounter. Here they play to a nicely-contested draw.
 
 

FIDE Master (FM) Raja Panjwani, rated at 2350, finished the Canadian Open on 6½ points from nine games. He was well placed among the leaders for most of the tournament but lost a crucial round seven game to the winner and Canadian champion Mark Bluvshtein. In 2003 I (Tiwari) played Raja in a chess tournament in Ottawa. At the time he was the Canadian U-16 co-champion. The game came down to a queen and pawn endgame. I flushed out the King with a series of checks winning two pawns in the process. I subsequently lost the game on time.
FIDE Master (FM) Raja Panjwani, rated at 2350, finished the Canadian Open on 6½ points from nine games. He was well placed among the leaders for most of the tournament but lost a crucial round seven game to the winner and Canadian champion Mark Bluvshtein. In 2003 I (Tiwari) played Raja in a chess tournament in Ottawa. At the time he was the Canadian U-16 co-champion. The game came down to a queen and pawn endgame. I flushed out the King with a series of checks winning two pawns in the process. I subsequently lost the game on time.

Bluvshtein, Mark (2598)
– Shirov, Alexei (2748) 2009 Canadian Open Chess Championship Edmonton Canada (8), 18.7.2009

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 0-0 5.Nge2 d5 6.a3 Be7 7.Nf4 c6 8.Bd3 Nbd7 9.cxd5 cxd5 10.Qf3 a6 11.g4 e5!? 12.Nfxd5 exd4 13.exd4 Nxd5 14.Qxd5?! Nb6 15.Qxd8 Rxd8 16.Be2 Bf6 17.Be3 Bxd4 18.Rd1 Bxc3+ 19.bxc3 Rxd1+ 20.Kxd1 Nd5 21.Bd4 Bd7 22.Kd2 Bc6 23.Re1 Re8 24.Bc4 Rxe1 25.Kxe1 f6 26.f3 Kf7 27.h4 g6 28.Kf2 f5 29.Kg3 Ke6 30.Bb3 b5 31.c4 bxc4 32.Bxc4 Bb5 33.Bb3. fxg4 34.Kxg4 Be2 35.Bc2 Ne7 36.Be4 Nf5 37.Bc5 Kf6 38.Bf2 Nd6 39.Bd4+ DRAW.  1/2-1/2.