World class players at Sinquefield Chess Cup

By Errol Tiwari On In Chess with Errol |
Yolander Persaud, 25, has been named captain and player of the 2016 Guyana Women’s Chess Olympiad team by the Guyana Chess Federation. Persaud accompanied the Guyana Olympiad chess team to the Tromso Olympiad in 2014. She attended the Instructors and Arbiters’ seminars in Tromso where she qualified for a Development Instructor’s licence and was awarded a FIDE Arbiter International Certificate following her success in the FIDE examination.
Yolander Persaud, 25, has been named captain and player of the 2016 Guyana Women’s Chess Olympiad team by the Guyana Chess Federation. Persaud accompanied the Guyana Olympiad chess team to the Tromso Olympiad in 2014. She attended the Instructors and Arbiters’ seminars in Tromso where she qualified for a Development Instructor’s licence and was awarded a FIDE Arbiter International Certificate following her success in the FIDE examination.

ChessLogo“Once every four years, the world goes to war. They call it the games.” – From the Michael Winner 1970 film The Games with Ryan O’Neal and Stanley Baker.

It feels sentimental to remind ourselves of the poignant and heartbreaking story surrounding the film in which four runners from four different nations trained for the 26.2-mile Olympic marathon in Rome. The Olympic Games began on Friday. Starting simultaneously alongside the unique Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, was the extraordinary Sinquefield Chess Cup which began in St Louis, Missouri, USA.

The influential nature of the tournament resides in the fact that