Still waiting for the chess federation

By Errol Tiwari On In Chess with Errol |
Student of the Orealla Secondary School, Veral Felix, 15, smiles as he is rewarded with a trophy for placing second in the individual category of the Sixth Berbice Inter-School Chess Championship held in November at the Manchester Secondary School. Presenting the trophy is Berbice High School teacher Zahir Moakan (right). Veral travelled to the chess competition from Orealla in the Berbice river with his mother, starting out at 11 o’clock at night by boat.
Student of the Orealla Secondary School, Veral Felix, 15, smiles as he is rewarded with a trophy for placing second in the individual category of the Sixth Berbice Inter-School Chess Championship held in November at the Manchester Secondary School. Presenting the trophy is Berbice High School teacher Zahir Moakan (right). Veral travelled to the chess competition from Orealla in the Berbice river with his mother, starting out at 11 o’clock at night by boat.

A beleaguered local chess federation, failing in its ability to organize a national junior chess championship and its senior counterpart, in addition to two national school chess championships over the past two years, seems to be stirring some reaction among our youthful precocious chess minds. A favourite question which is asked is: What is happening in chess? Apparently no one knows. Nevertheless, although we are at a crossroads of uncertainty, we are within the dynamics of a new year, and we should give fate and the Guyana Chess Federation a fighting chance to make amends,