Errol Tiwari

Could an individual game in the single round robin event between Loris Nathoo, an improved 1700 player, and Taffin Khan, a 2000 FIDE competitor, signal the switch of the Guyana National Chess Championship title?

As the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) continues to roll out its school chess manoeuvres, overseas-based Guyanese Raymond Singh, a former 1980s GCF champion, has donated 2,000 chess sets to Guyana to use in the school system.

When the Ram and McRae National Qualifiers Tournament concludes today, the top ten competitors will move on to contest the 2023 National Chess Championships billed for later this month.

The Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) in collaboration with the Ministry of Education has implemented the teaching of chess in schools.

The esteemed 2024 Candidates chess tournaments to identify two challengers for classical world champions Ding Liren and Ju Wenjun, will take place in Toronto simultaneously.

Chess playing on a high level requires a certain type of mind, though exactly what kind the psychologists have not yet determined.

The language of chess has manoeuvred itself into many other pursuits.

Recently, I came across some interesting revelations about the Bobby Fischer-Boris Spassky World Championship Chess Match.

In the 1980s, Garry Kasparov was taking the world by storm which reminds me of a time in the 1920s when Jose Raul Capablanca of Cuba was beating everyone in chess.

Last week I mentioned the fact that two world chess championships were held in September 1993 which was unusual and unprecedented.

Thirty years ago, in September 1993, two separate World Championship matches were played in the Netherlands and England for the first and only time in chess history.

The final chapter was written recently in the Magnus Carlsen and Hans Niemann feud, according to leading chess platform Chess.com,

The fact that a Guyanese player, Kataleya Sam, was decorated with a bronze medal in the under-10 category at the recent 2023 Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Youth Chess Festival which was held in Trinidad and Tobago, speaks volumes for Guyana’s energetic chess development.

Congratulations to Jessica Callender, 21, for winning the 2023 Women’s Chess Championship without losing a game.

Eleven youth chess players are currently representing Guyana at the nine-round, round-robin Central American and Caribbean (CAC)  Championship from August 20th to August 27th in Trinidad and Tobago.

Nineteen-year-old Sasha Shariff, a University of Guyana student is considered the favourite in the annual Women’s National Chess Championship which began on Thursday at the School of the Nations, Georgetown and ends on August 20.

When the seven-round Diamond Fire and General Insurance Women’s Chess Championship Qualifiers ends today at the School of the Nations, Georgetown, the winner is likely to be either former women’s national champion Sasha Shariff or Jessica Callender.

The 2023 seven-round National Women’s Chess Qualifiers Tournament for selection to contest the National Championship has begun at the School of the Nations, Georgetown with four of the stars of last year’s Chess Olympiad in India, Sasha Shariff, Anaya Lall, Nellisha Johnson and Jessica Callender among those in contention.

University of Guyana student Keron Sandiford is the new Milex Junior Chess Champion.

John Macedo, 68, an accomplished chess player during the 1970s and 1980s, died two Thursdays ago in Guyana following a brief illness.