Chess with Errol

May the best school win

ChessWe are not expecting chess games which feature deep and inventive play from those schoolchildren who have converged in Georgetown for the National Schools Chess Championship. 

During the first National Schools Chess Championships that were held at Queen’s College last December, Carlos Griffith and Kana Khan (in photo) represented Dolphin Government School and Tutorial High, respectively. Both players were new to the game at the time, but they have since improved their standard of play by participating frequently in tournaments. This year’s championships will be held next weekend at the Carifesta Sports Complex, and Griffith and Khan, among many others from schools in Demerara, Berbice, Linden, Bartica and the Essequibo coast will be competing.
During the first National Schools Chess Championships that were held at Queen’s College last December, Carlos Griffith and Kana Khan (in photo) represented Dolphin Government School and Tutorial High, respectively. Both players were new to the game at the time, but they have since improved their standard of play by participating frequently in tournaments. This year’s championships will be held next weekend at the Carifesta Sports Complex, and Griffith and Khan, among many others from schools in Demerara, Berbice, Linden, Bartica and the Essequibo coast will be competing.

National Schools Chess Championship for Saturday

Schoolchildren across the country who play chess are eagerly awaiting the commencement of the National Schools Chess Championships this Saturday at the Carifesta Sports Complex, Carifesta Avenue.

Meusa likely new national champion

With six rounds to go and a phenomenal three-point lead against opponents who are supposedly the strongest chess players in the country, Wendell Meusa has almost certainly established that he would be the new national champion.

Errol Tiwari

Fighting chess

Chess It was fighting chess throughout the National Qualification Tournament to determine the participants for the National Championships.

By tonight the qualifiers will be known

‘He who would accomplish little must   sacrifice little; he who would achieve much   must sacrifice much; he who would attain   highly, must sacrifice greatly.’          -James Allen   When the final clock is stopped this evening, only then will we know who the qualifiers are for the National Chess Championships of Guyana.

Errol Tiwari

World champion visits Botswana

Chess World chess champion Vishy Anand paid a surprise visit to Botswana three weeks ago as a guest of the Indian technology company NIIT, and the Botswana Chess Federation.

Chess

With one tournament still to go, Armenian grandmaster Levon Aronian is already the winner of the 2008-2009 Fide Grand Prix.

Wely v Short

Chess This year’s Staunton Memorial, which pits top English grandmasters against their Dutch counterparts, was played from August 8-17.

According to the latest update in the Canadian Chess Championship, FIDE Master (FM ) Raja Panjwwani, rated 2418, is among the leaders of the tournament with a 4-0 score. Raja is the top player on the University of Western Ontario chess team, the current champion of the Canadian University Chess Championships. At the championship, Raja scored 4/5 on top board, yielding only two draws. In photo he faces grandmaster Anton Kovalyov from Argentina.

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Preparing for the national championshipsWendell Muesa has won his third chess tournament for the year following his victory in the Sasha Cells eight-round swiss tournament.

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