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Queen’s College student Alexander Zhang receives the Century 21 trophy for winning the 2023 Under-16 Chess Championship of Guyana

Chess prodigies and academic stars

A popular American newsletter researched and published an article headlined: “27 geniuses with the highest IQs in history”.

Vladimir Kramnik (Photo: Michelle Lassak)

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Can Couchman retain his U-16 title?

Tomorrow’s important national Under-16 Chess Championship Tournament at the Marian Academy follows the inaugural tournament of the Global Chess League (GCL) in Dubai and the 50th Dortmund Chess Festival in Germany.

Thehas Rithmitha Kiringoda, gold medallist in the 2023
Under-9 World Schools Chess Championship, smiling and holding his winning trophy while draped in the flag of Sri Lanka, the country of his birth. He was the 21st seed among 61 players from 24 countries. (Photo: Sagar Shah)

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Chess tournaments resume with U-16 rapid on July 3

The Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) has officially resumed its schedule of tournaments for 2023.

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Guyana must aim to produce an international master

Self-confidence is very important. If you don’t think you can win, you will take cowardly decisions in the crucial moments, out of sheer respect for your opponent.

Loris Nathoo, who introduced the Grand Prix points system to Guyana. The system is fair and accurate, and chess players recognize it for what it is.

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Guyana should strive to improve result at Olympiad

The Chess Olympiad is a biennial tournament in which teams worldwide compete.

President of the Guyana Chess Federation Anand Raghunauth. Guyana will attend the 2024 Chess Olympiad with a Men and Women’s team. It is necessary, therefore, that we obtain a fair amount of practice with the classical format (long games) before venturing forth. The Olympiad is a long-game tournament.

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More competitions are necessary

Some 200 years ago, chess became a matter of personal challenge and international competition.

Russia’s Dr Alexander Alekhine (left) and Cuba’s Jose Raul Capablanca facing each other in 1938 (Photo: Chess News)

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More classical chess tournaments needed

Chess was designed to provide endless hours of enjoyment and pleasure to the person who indulges it.

Fabiano Caruana (second, right) with his winner’s cheque of US$100,000 (Photo: Lennart Ootes)

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Caruana scored big at Superbet classic

United States chess champ Fabiano Caruana conquered an elite field which included current world champion Ding Liren, to win the Superbet Chess Classic Tournament in Bucharest, Romania, recently.

Ding Liren (right) and Ian Nepomniachtchi (Photo: FIDE/Anna Shtourman)

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Return of the underdog

Exactly sixty years ago, as it happened in 2023 between Ding LIren and Ian Nepomniachtchi, Tigran Petrosian opposed Mikhail Botvinnik for the FIDE World Championship Chess Championship.

Ding Liren smiles broadly after winning the World Chess Championship title in Astana, Kazakhstan, recently. (Photo: FIDE/ Stev Bonhage)

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Ding Liren wins big for China

Ding Liren, ranked number three in the world by FIDE (2789), took home the World Chess Champion-ship title to China for the first time ever on the last day of April, to the satisfaction of over one billion Chinese residents.

Ian Nepomniachtchi (Photo: FIDE/Anna Shtourman)

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Ian Nepomniachtchi or Ding Liren

The Candidates Tourna-ment has been organised by FIDE, chess’s international governing body, since 1950, as the final contest to determine the challenger for the World Championship.

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Boost for local chess from British grandmaster’s visit

The highest ranking chess grandmaster ever to visit Guyana, England’s Nigel David Short, MBE, paid a four-day visit to these shores last week and competed against 20 simultaneous boards successfully without losing or drawing a game.

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Emotions felt during chess tournaments manifest physically in the body

In 1979, there was a strong grandmaster chess tournament in Munich in which Dr Helmut Pfleger, a grandmaster himself, sought to monitor the heart rates of players.