Errol Tiwari

Today, we celebrate the magnificent return of face-to-face chess in pictures with the hosting of the Gaico Grand Prix Tournament at the National Stadium, Providence.

Following a three-year hiatus, the increasingly popular Grand Prix face-to-face chess tournaments are back.

Three years after the last behind-the-board classical chess game was contested in 2019, the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) is ready to re-commence this traditional activity with the Gaico Grand Prix Chess Tournament which begins on Saturday, March 19 at the National Stadium, Providence.

In the first quarter of 2022, developments within the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) seem to be flourishing.

JuLo’s Enterprises, a stationery and ice cream shop in Grove, East Bank Demerara, last weekend donated two FIDE- approved tournament-sized chess sets and one FIDE-approved DGT chess clock to the St Ignatius Secondary School in Lethem, Region Nine.

The Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) is seeking stronger ties with the international chess community to assist in its ongoing programme of development.

Wendell Meusa, an international Candidate Master, obliterated Guyana’s accomplished blitz players in a clean sweep at the STR Wood Inc online five-minute tournament this past weekend.

Justino DaSilva, a promising Guyanese chess player, scored a total of five points in a five-minute online blitz tournament between Guyana and Suriname recently.

Guyana’s finest chess players, including a list of imaginative juniors, will compete in the 2022 National Blitz Online Chess Championship on Saturday February 5 from 2 pm.

Alexander Zhang and Kristin Xavier played unbeaten to emerge winners in the DeSinco Rapid Online U-12 National Chess Championships last weekend.

Over 100 students aged seven to 15 years old are benefitting from a compre-hensive online program-me, conducted by the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF), to learn and study the game of chess.

So, let us wage a global struggle against illiteracy, poverty and terrorism and let us pick up our books and pens.

In the world of elite chess and with the introduction of computers, it is becoming difficult to pick winners in tournaments.

After his thunderous victory over Ian Nepomniachtchi in the recent championship match, World Champion Magnus Carlsen said he had lost his passion for this form of competition over the years and may not play another World Championship match.

Norwegian Grandmaster Magnus Carlsen, 31, retain-ed his world championship title last week as he defeated his Russian challenger, Grandmaster Ian Nepomniachtchi 7.5 to 3.5 in a 14-game match.

When World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen won the first game of the classical championship match, a 136-move thriller, a colleague called and said, “It is finished.”

Eleven local chess players competed last Sunday in the Jamaica Online Open Tournament.

Chessplayers Marcia Lee and Yolander Persaud, who have demonstrated an aptitude for assiduousness, were elected on Monday last as directors of the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF).

Jules Rimet, the French visionary who founded the World Cup, aimed for a rapprochement of nations through football.

Every leader in every field, every successful company or individual, got to the top by working harder and focusing better than someone else.