The year 2010 was a significant one for the Guyana Chess Federation. It was the most active year since the engines of chess activity were re-started three years ago.
Players were given opportunity after opportunity to sharpen and test their abilities at the chess board under international conditions. We crowned two new national champions: Ron Motilall who captured the National Junior Championship title and Taffin Khan, who demonstrated that he was the strongest of the participants in the senior category. He secured the prestigious title of National Chess Champion of Guyana.
The previous national champion, Wendell Meusa, made certain public allegations against the federation early in the year. He was requested to prove those allegations or alternatively, to 
apologise to the federation for remarks made. He did neither. The Executive Committee of the federation decided that should an apology be made it would not be made public. We waited until four days before the commencement of the championship for a response from Mr Meusa. It was at that midnight hour that the committee voted for Mr Meusa’s six-month suspension to continue until December. By then, the National Chess Championship would have been over.
Taffin Khan represented Guyana at the Umada Cup in Trinidad and Tobago in a field of international players from the region. He placed fourth from among the 78 participants. We conducted a FIDE international tournament at the National Stadium to secure a FIDE international ranking for the participants of the tournament. This was done successfully making Guyana eligible to participate in FIDE internationally-rated tournaments.
In December we organized the National Schools Championship tournament. Schools from Georgetown, West Demerara, Berbice, Linden and Bartica participated. A total of 95 students competed for honours and Queens’ College with Cecil Cox at the helm, edged out St Stanislaus College to take first place.
In 2011 we aspire to do better in chess than we did last year. We intend to carry the game to a wider cross section of schools in as many regions as we can.
The game is taken from the Hastings Chess Congress which was held at Christmas.
Flynn, David (2061) – 
Messam-Sparks, Lateefa (1917)
Hastings Masters (1.38), 28.12.2010
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bg5 e6 7.f4 Be7 8.Qf3 Nbd7 9.0-0-0 Rb8 10.g4 Qc7 11.Bxf6 Bxf6 12.g5 Bxd4 13.Rxd4 b5 14.Bg2 b4 15.Ne2 e5 16.Rd2 exf4 17.Qxf4 Ne5 18.Rhd1 0-0 19.Rxd6 Nc4 20.R6d4 Qxf4+ 21.Nxf4 Ne3 22.R1d3 Nxg2 23.Nxg2 a5 24.Nf4 Ba6 25.Rd1 Rfc8 26.Nd5 Kf8 27.Kd2 Rb5 28.b3 Bb7 29.h4 Bxd5 30.Rxd5 Rxd5+ 31.exd5 Rc5 32.Kc1 Ke7 33.Rd2 Kd6 34.Kd1 Rxd5 35.Rxd5+ Kxd5 36.Ke2 Ke4 37.Kd2 Kd4 38.h5
38…f6 39.h6 Black Resigns! 1-0.
