Errol Tiwari

The annual Cairns Cup, an elite women’s chess tournament ends today in St Louis, Missouri, USA.

The paramount news items in chess this week are Taffin Khan’s unsullied victory of the Guyana National Championship, and Magnus Carlsen’s win on his home turf in Norway Chess.

Each time Magnus Carlsen gets defeated in a chess game, it reverberates as news in the chess world.

I was replaying some games from the National Qualifiers Tournament that was held to identify entrants for the 2024 National Chess Championship which began yesterday.

The dictionary of chess defines a blunder as a move so inferior in one’s standard of play as to be inexplicable on purely technical grounds.

The International Chess Federation (FIDE) has announced an initiative for its ChessMom project.

After six rounds of the nine-round 2024 National Women’s Chess Championship,13-year-old Aditi Joshi of Queen’s College and journalist Jessica Callender were in the lead with five points each.

As winner of the FIDE 2024 World Championship Candidates Tournament, 17-year-old chess grandmaster from Chennai, India, Dommaraju Gukesh must now prepare to face world champion Ding Liren from China later this year.

After 11 rounds, mid-last week, Russia’s Ian Nepomniachtchi, 33, with 7 points, was in the lead at the Open World Championship Candidates Tournament currently underway in Toronto, Canada.

As at Wednesday last, after six rounds in the 2024 FIDE World Champion-ship Candidates Chess Tournaments, 17-year-old Indian grandmaster Dommaraju Gukesh and Tan Zhongyi of China had taken the lead, but the race remained wide open.

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 annual Marlon Williams Chess Tournament is set for next Sunday, April 7th, at the Catholic Life Centre in Brickdam.

In 2023, a lot of tournament chess was being contested by eager schoolchildren and there has been an extraordinary rise in their advancement.

National junior chess champion Keron Sandiford made a bold statement two Thursday nights ago when he won the first Century 21 Grand Prix tournament of 2024.

Junior chess champion Keron Sandiford, Queen’s College student Kyle Couchman and Shazeeda Rahim reigned supreme at the recent Century 21 Grand Prix chess tournament, which was held at the Racquet Centre and the School of the Nations.

Guyana is celebrating 50 years of Caricom presence with a monumental chess tournament in March.

One of the Guyana Chess Federation’s (GCF) honorable sons, Fitz Herbert Slowe, a man who exhibited fine personal qualities, was killed in a car crash in Queens, New York.

Candidate Master Taffin Khan took the second game of the two-best-in-three playoff to defeat Loris Nathoo and claim the title of National Chess Champion 2023 on Wednesday evening at the Ocean Spray Hotel. 

The game between Gilbert Williams, 26, FIDE-rated at 1332, and Sachin Dhilan Pitamber 13, who is rated at 1551, was filled with innovative play and excitement.

Jaden Taylor shone during the Gaico 2023 National Open Chess Championship, with drawn games played between him and two of the most highly ranked players of the competition, Taffin Khan and Loris Nathoo.