Chess with Errol

Queen’s College student Aditi Joshi, 14, supplemented her international FIDE rating by scoring the most points for Guyana at the recent 2024 Pan-Am Youth Chess Championship, in Florida, USA.

During the 2024 Junior Championship Qualifier Tournament sponsored by Moo Milk, which was contested earlier this month, Mahir Rajkumar outplayed Italy Ton-Chung.

Junior chess is becoming more pronounced in Guyana with the hosting of a fair number of tournaments recently.

Grand Prix No 4, the last of the intensely competitive chess tournaments for seniors in a classical mode, was won by Candidate Master Ronuel Greenidge who played unbeaten throughout the eight-round competition.

Playing in Guyana’s 4th Grand Prix chess tournament, Ethan Lee and Ronuel Greenidge’s game ended in a draw, in 67 moves.

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

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.

LONDON (Reuters) – Russia’s financial monitoring agency, Rosfinmonitoring, has added former world chess champion Garry Kasparov, a prominent critic of the Kremlin, to its list of “terrorists and extremists”, the RIA state news agency reported on Wednesday.

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.