School of the Nations University student Jessica Clementson, 20, harboured a significant thought ever since she learnt to play chess as a modest teenage girl. She wanted to see more girls playing the rich ancient game. In Guyana, 
and it seems the world over, chess is a predominantly man’s sport. The extraordinary brain game attracts approximately eight male players from ten, giving a lopsided eighty per cent ruling. But all is not lost in favour of women. Spectacularly, India has more than doubled its women participants in tournament chess, similar to the Eastern European nations. China produced a woman world champion and Iranian women’s chess is effectively on the