Asks Donald Duff
Chess is not an altogether popular game in Guyana. It is, though, a game that helps one to concentrate, calculate, and plan ahead and, as such, it is an extremely beneficial game for young people. It is also a game that makes one marvel at the brilliance of the mind of mankind. Those who have performed or experienced the beauty of combinations such as in a smothered checkmate, or played the many opening gambits which give up material advantage for positional advantage will tell you that there is no more beautiful game than chess.
Unlike some other Caribbean countries like Trinidad and Tobago and Cuba, Chess in Guyana is hardly played in