The Guyana Chess Federation is preparing to host a FIDE- titled chess tournament which will enable its players to receive world chess ratings. This was not possible previously, since we were not affiliated to FIDE as an accredited member. Now that we are, we can go ahead and secure our international ratings.
Four titled international players and an international arbiter, will travel to Guyana to compete in a tournament alongside six selected Guyanese players. The arbiter will be the chief judge of the tournament. At the conclusion of the tournament, our six representatives would be given ratings according to their performances. Other local players who did not participate in this international tournament, would also get FIDE ratings when they compete with our local titled players.
- The Guyana Chess Federation’s new Executive Committee which was elected by members on Sunday, March 28
- Guyana versus Jamaica in the semi-final chess match of the Intra-Regional Central Bank Games held in Guyana recently. In photo, Jason Allicock (left), playing top board for Guyana, takes on the Jamaica Board One competitor. Jason won this, and his other games for Guyana, although this country only placed fourth in the competition because of lost points in the team championship following losses on the lower boards.
Guyana would then become eligible to compete in FIDE-rated tournaments worldwide, and strive to gain the coveted International Master and Grandmaster title norms. This is how a country goes about the task of obtaining an International Master, or Grandmaster of Chess. The underlying factor of achieving such a distinction, however, is that our players must compete internationally.
In the meantime, the federation will continue to host its monthly tournaments. Beginning next Sunday, the annual Kei-Shar’s sponsored chess tournament for junior and senior players will commence. The tournament will be an eight-round swiss, where winners play winners and losers play losers. Two games will be played on Sunday, and a number of prizes will be handed out to the top finishers. Participation in the tournament is open to all chess players throughout Guyana.
Zhigalko v Tseshkovsky
The game is taken from the 4th Annual International Georgy Agzamov Memorial in Tashkent. It is held in the memory of Georgy Agzamov, the first grandmaster of Central Asia. Russian grandmaster Maxim Turov took first place on tie breaks.
Zhigalko, S (2648) – Tseshkovsky, V (2549)
4th G. Agzamov Mem Tashkent UZB (7), 29.3.2010
1.e4 g6 2.d4 Bg7 3.Nc3 d6 4.Be3 a6 5.Qd2 b5 6.a4 b4 7.Nce2 a5 8.Ng3 c6 9.Nf3 h5 10.Bd3 Bg4 11.Ng5 Nh6 12.h3 Bc8 13.c3 bxc3 14.bxc3 d5 15.e5 h4 16.Ne2 Nf5 17.Bf4 Na6 18.0-0 Nc7 19.Rab1 f6 20.Nf3 Ne6 21.Qc2 0-0 22.Bxf5 gxf5 23.Nxh4 Ba6 24.Ng6 Rf7 25.Rfe1 c5 26.dxc5 Nxc5 27.Rbd1 e6 28.Ng3 Rc8
29.Nxf5 fxe5 30.Nxg7 exf4 31.Nxe6 Qf6 32.Nxc5 Rxc5 33.Re8+ Kg7 34.Ne5 Rfc7 35.Re1 d4 36.Qb3 Bc4 37.Nxc4 Rxc4 38.cxd4 Qxd4 1-0.