Chess with Errol

The Guyana team before leaving for Hungary
The Guyana team before leaving for Hungary

Upsets seen in Chess Olympiad

American Fabiano Caruana was one of grandmasters scoring wins on Thursday in Round Two of 45th FIDE Chess Olympiad in Budapest, Hungary.

Students of St Ignatius Primary School, Lethem, observing a game of chess being played with one of the new chess sets donated by the Guyana Chess Federation

Chess stimulating students at St Ignatius Primary

The ‘Overseas Friends of Guyana’s Chess from the USA donated a total of five tournament size chess sets to the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) in June, which were subsequently presented to the St Ignatius Primary School, Lethem in Region Nine through the Allied Arts Division, Ministry of Education.

Abhimanyu Mishra (Photo – Biel Chess Festival)

A nod to the underdogs

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

Ronuel Greenidge (right) winner of the 4th Grand Prix chess tournament, played undefeated. Aditi Joshi of Queen's College is his opponent in this photo.

Controlling the centre

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.

Mikhail Chigorin and Wilhelm Steinitz from a poster of their 1892 match

Blunders

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.

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