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Fischer vs Spassky: a look back
Recently, I came across some interesting revelations about the Bobby Fischer-Boris Spassky World Championship Chess Match.
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.
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.
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