Guyana’s big moment in chess for 2024 was the Olympiad in Hungary. We fielded the finest players we had to offer. We chose our competitors from a series of grand prix tournaments which were created by Loris Nathoo, a director of the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF). It is a fair and accurate system which operates on the accumulation of points, and, fittingly, we chose the ones who came out on top.
Sachin Pitamber, 14, a Queen’s College student, played excep-tionally in the grand prix tournaments and the GCF introduced him to his first Olym-piad. While there, he congregated with the stars of the chess world. Ronuel Greenidge captained the team, but I would have loved to view him as a competitor instead. He is still one of Guyana’s finest chess players.
