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Alireza Firouzja is the youngest person to cross the difficult 2800 barrier (2804) and is second only to world champion Magnus Carlsen in rank. (Photo: ECU Press)
Alireza Firouzja is the youngest person to cross the difficult 2800 barrier (2804) and is second only to world champion Magnus Carlsen in rank. (Photo: ECU Press)

Can Alireza Firouzja go all the way?

After his thunderous victory over Ian Nepomniachtchi in the recent championship match, World Champion Magnus Carlsen said he had lost his passion for this form of competition over the years and may not play another World Championship match.

World Champion again! Norway’s Magnus Carlsen is all smiles as he wins the world chess championship for a fifth consecutive time.  (Photo: Eric Rosen /FIDE)
World Champion again! Norway’s Magnus Carlsen is all smiles as he wins the world chess championship for a fifth consecutive time. (Photo: Eric Rosen /FIDE)

Carlsen retains title, eager for new challenge

Norwegian Grandmaster Magnus Carlsen, 31, retain-ed his world championship title last week as he defeated his Russian challenger, Grandmaster Ian Nepomniachtchi 7.5 to 3.5 in a 14-game match.

World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen (right) contesting the 2021 World Championship Match with Grandmaster Ian Nepomniachtchi in Dubai, UAE (Photo: Niki Riga)
World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen (right) contesting the 2021 World Championship Match with Grandmaster Ian Nepomniachtchi in Dubai, UAE (Photo: Niki Riga)

Carlsen set to retain World Championship title

When World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen won the first game of the classical championship match, a 136-move thriller, a colleague called and said, “It is finished.”

Young chess players representing Guyana during a virtual international competition

Making chess a national pastime

“Pawns are the soul of chess.” — Francois Andre Danican Philidor, French chess player and composer (1726-1795)                                                   Decades ago when I learned chess, a few years after the Guyana Chess Association (GCA) was established in 1972, we were excited at the thought of exploring a new game.

President of the Guyana Chess Federation Frankie Farley

Election by slate

With the elections less than a month away, here is some background information pertaining to the incorporation of the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) as a private company.

No-castling: An exciting new concept in chess

The fourteenth and fifteenth world chess champions Vladimir Kramnik (Russia) and Viswanathan Anand (India) engaged in a duel of wits in a four-game “no-castling match” at the historic Dortmund Sparkassen Trophy, Germany.

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