Guyana’s two-week sojourn at the 45th Chess Olympiad in Budapest ended a fortnight ago with mixed results.
Queen’s College student Aditi Narayan Joshi’s star shone the brightest of all among the Guyana contingent. She played a total of ten games competing on Board Two for the women and won or drew nine of them. She lost one game. It is a record for chess in Guyana.
Ever since the re-involvement of Guyana in the Olympiad in 2014 in Norway under the auspices of then president of the Guyana Chess Federation Irshad Mohammed, there has never been a result such as this. It is remarkable that Joshi only began playing chess last year and created such a stir internationally.