Guyana ended in seventh place in Division Four, Pool E of the 2021 FIDE Online Chess Olympiad with female player Nellisha Johnson turning out to be the best performer.
Guyana ended on 11 points in the hard fought competition. The group winner was Puerto Rico with 22 points, with Trinidad and Tobago second on 20 points and Haiti, third with 17 points.
The Netherland Antilles was fourth with 13 points while St Lucia and Cayman Islands were joint fifth with 12 points.
Bermuda and Antigua and Barbados were tied on six points, while Mauritania, five points and The Bahamas and Togo with four points each completed the group.
Guyana was represented by the following players:
Board 1 – Taffin Khan (Loris Nathoo)
Board 2 – Davion Mars (Gilbert Williams)
Board 3 – Shazeeda Rahim (Nellisha Johnson)
Board 4 – Sherlyta Campayne (Maria Varona-Thomas)
Board 5 – Ricardo Narine (Emmanuel Primus)
Board 6 – Jessica Callender (Adia Alphonso)
Johnson played superbly to finish on six and one half points from nine games while Jessica Callender ended on four and one half points.
Narine and Rahim each ended on four points while Nathoo played excellently to finish on three points from a mere five matches.
Khan on board one managed two wins and two draws from seven matches for a total of three points.
The event was a stand-in online event for the Official Olympiad which has been postponed and will take place in 2022 in Khanty-Mansysk.
Some 155 countries participating in the online competition each fielding a team of 12 players, six main players and six reserves. The categories contested were Open, a women’s category, a male junior category and a female junior category.
The team, captained by Davion Mars was selected on relatively short notice due to late short window from registration set by FIDE, this forced the GCF to rely on a combination of criteria to select representatives, a release from the GCF stated.
The average rating for the Guyana team was 1376.
Following is the FIDE rating of the Guyana players:-
Khan rating 1989
Mars 1562
Shazeeda Rahim 1000
Sherlyta Campayne 1375
Ricardo Narine 1000
Jessica Callender 1329
Loris Nathoo 1617
Gilbert Williams 1307
Nellisha Johnson 1111
Maria Varona Thomas 1733
Emmanuel Primus1000
Adia Alphonso 1000
Frankie Farley 1483
