Candidate Master and former national champion Taffin Khan ended the second Guyana Chess Federation Gaico-sponsored seven-round Swiss System tournament with a perfect 7-0 score after a walkover from Roberto Neto in his final round match recently.
The competition, played at the National Resource Centre on Woolford Avenue, saw Ronuel Greenidge placing second on five points his only defeats being to Davion Mars and, of course, Khan.
Three players were joint third in Loris Nathoo, Mars and Neto while Errol Tiwari, Frankie Farley and Glenford Corlette were joint sixth.
In the other placings Ethan Lee, Justino Da Silva and Shiv Nandalall ended on three and one half points while Steve Leung, Saeed Alli, Uddhav Bhagwandeen, Adrian Roopnarine and Dane Grimmond each finished on three points.
Rai Sharma ended on two and one half points and Jaeden Taylor and Jacob Nauth on two points each.
Joshua Gopaul came next with one and one half points while Chino Chung and Kenrick Braithwaite ended on one point each.
The Tournament Directors were Rashad Hussain and John Lee.
Khan joined Wendell Meusa as the only players who have played unbeaten in the two tournaments arranged by the federation to assist in the selection of the team for next year’s Olympiad. Meusa played unbeaten in the first Gaico sponsored tournament but did not play in the second.
National champion Anthony Drayton has not played in either tournaments so far.
The next tournament is scheduled to commence this weekend.
