Eleven youth chess players are currently representing Guyana at the nine-round, round-robin Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Championship from August 20th to August 27th in Trinidad and Tobago.
Nineteen-year-old Sasha Shariff, a University of Guyana student is considered the favourite in the annual Women’s National Chess Championship which began on Thursday at the School of the Nations, Georgetown and ends on August 20.
When the seven-round Diamond Fire and General Insurance Women’s Chess Championship Qualifiers ends today at the School of the Nations, Georgetown, the winner is likely to be either former women’s national champion Sasha Shariff or Jessica Callender.
The 2023 seven-round National Women’s Chess Qualifiers Tournament for selection to contest the National Championship has begun at the School of the Nations, Georgetown with four of the stars of last year’s Chess Olympiad in India, Sasha Shariff, Anaya Lall, Nellisha Johnson and Jessica Callender among those in contention.
University of Guyana student Keron Sandiford is the new Milex Junior Chess Champion.
John Macedo, 68, an accomplished chess player during the 1970s and 1980s, died two Thursdays ago in Guyana following a brief illness.
A popular American newsletter researched and published an article headlined: “27 geniuses with the highest IQs in history”.
Tomorrow’s important national Under-16 Chess Championship Tournament at the Marian Academy follows the inaugural tournament of the Global Chess League (GCL) in Dubai and the 50th Dortmund Chess Festival in Germany.
The Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) has officially resumed its schedule of tournaments for 2023.
Self-confidence is very important. If you don’t think you can win, you will take cowardly decisions in the crucial moments, out of sheer respect for your opponent.
The Chess Olympiad is a biennial tournament in which teams worldwide compete.
Some 200 years ago, chess became a matter of personal challenge and international competition.
Chess was designed to provide endless hours of enjoyment and pleasure to the person who indulges it.
United States chess champ Fabiano Caruana conquered an elite field which included current world champion Ding Liren, to win the Superbet Chess Classic Tournament in Bucharest, Romania, recently.
Exactly sixty years ago, as it happened in 2023 between Ding LIren and Ian Nepomniachtchi, Tigran Petrosian opposed Mikhail Botvinnik for the FIDE World Championship Chess Championship.
Ding Liren, ranked number three in the world by FIDE (2789), took home the World Chess Champion-ship title to China for the first time ever on the last day of April, to the satisfaction of over one billion Chinese residents.
The Candidates Tourna-ment has been organised by FIDE, chess’s international governing body, since 1950, as the final contest to determine the challenger for the World Championship.
The highest ranking chess grandmaster ever to visit Guyana, England’s Nigel David Short, MBE, paid a four-day visit to these shores last week and competed against 20 simultaneous boards successfully without losing or drawing a game.
In 1979, there was a strong grandmaster chess tournament in Munich in which Dr Helmut Pfleger, a grandmaster himself, sought to monitor the heart rates of players.
Never before in Guy-ana’s history has there been 50 or more girls and women playing chess.
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