Chess with Errol

Guyana is celebrating 50 years of Caricom presence with a monumental chess tournament in March.

One of the Guyana Chess Federation’s (GCF) honorable sons, Fitz Herbert Slowe, a man who exhibited fine personal qualities, was killed in a car crash in Queens, New York.

(BBC) In the last decade, few have fit the chess prodigy descriptor as well as India’s Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa.

Candidate Master Taffin Khan took the second game of the two-best-in-three playoff to defeat Loris Nathoo and claim the title of National Chess Champion 2023 on Wednesday evening at the Ocean Spray Hotel. 

The game between Gilbert Williams, 26, FIDE-rated at 1332, and Sachin Dhilan Pitamber 13, who is rated at 1551, was filled with innovative play and excitement.

Jaden Taylor shone during the Gaico 2023 National Open Chess Championship, with drawn games played between him and two of the most highly ranked players of the competition, Taffin Khan and Loris Nathoo. 

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.