Guyana’s Olympiad chess team along with officials of the Guyana Chess Federation paid a courtesy call on President Irfaan Ali and Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports Charles Ramson at State House recently. Also present were FIDE’s Disciplinary Commission Councillor Yolander Sammy (a Guyanese) and President of the Guyana Deaf Association Sabine Macintosh. Guyana’s woman reserve player Anaya Lall is hearing impaired. At the meeting, President Ali pledged to support the expansion of chess across Guyana.
Americn chess master I A Horowitz, commenting on Bobby Fischer’s self-confidence in the New York Times prior to the Spassky-Fischer world championship chess match in 1972, was quoted as saying: “..confidence
The 2022 FIDE Candidates Tournament in Spain is drawing to a close and it seems unlikely that Russian Grandmaster Ian Nepomniachtchi will be toppled from his perch at the top.
For a number of years, the Guyana Chess Federation’s (GCF) most magnanimous sponsors for tournaments were Keishar’s Enterprise and Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL).
There was an air of excited anticipation when the 2022 Guyana Chess Olympiad teams were announced last Sunday at the Park Vue Hotel as part of an awards presentation ceremony.
There is a peculiar independence and strength in Guyana’s junior chess players that is becoming evident as one replays and studies the games of the National Junior Championship.
Today, we celebrate the magnificent return of face-to-face chess in pictures with the hosting of the Gaico Grand Prix Tournament at the National Stadium, Providence.
Three years after the last behind-the-board classical chess game was contested in 2019, the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) is ready to re-commence this traditional activity with the Gaico Grand Prix Chess Tournament which begins on Saturday, March 19 at the National Stadium, Providence.
JuLo’s Enterprises, a stationery and ice cream shop in Grove, East Bank Demerara, last weekend donated two FIDE- approved tournament-sized chess sets and one FIDE-approved DGT chess clock to the St Ignatius Secondary School in Lethem, Region Nine.