Five tournament-size chess sets were recently donated to the Houston Secondary School on the East Bank Demerara by the group Overseas Friends of Guyana Chess. The sets were presented to the school by Guyana Chess Federation director Shiv Nandalall on behalf of the organisation.
At the presentation, 2022 National Junior Chess Champion and Queens College student Ricardo Narine conducted an introductory session. He taught students how the pieces move, after naming them, and demonstrated how a game should be played. Some 200 students: 120 boys and 80 girls from Grades 7 and 8 (Forms One and Two) participated in the introductory session. Some students were really interested and are excited to keep learning and playing.