Stabroek Weekend

American chess grandmaster Wesley So, 25 (left) congratulates India’s most recent grandmaster Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa, 13, at the conclusion of the 2018 Leon Masters in Leon, Spain, last week. So and Praggnanandhaa played one semi-final match and So prevailed. Praggnanandhaa won the first game, but So won the match, and subsequently, the full tournament. So is the 7th highest rated chess player worldwide.
American chess grandmaster Wesley So, 25 (left) congratulates India’s most recent grandmaster Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa, 13, at the conclusion of the 2018 Leon Masters in Leon, Spain, last week. So and Praggnanandhaa played one semi-final match and So prevailed. Praggnanandhaa won the first game, but So won the match, and subsequently, the full tournament. So is the 7th highest rated chess player worldwide.

Polgar, Yifan speak on women in chess

Of the over 1,600 chess grandmasters worldwide, just 36 are women.

Crimson-crested Woodpecker (Campephilus melanoleucos) perched at Pandama Winery, Madewini, Guyana (Photo by Kester Clarke www.kesterclarke.net)

Crimson-crested Woodpecker

The crimson-crested Woodpecker (Campephilus melanoleucos) is a very large woodpecker which is a resident breeding bird  from Panama south to northern border regions of Argentina, and on  Trinidad.

A sand pit in Waiakabra

Waiakabra

Waiakabra is a village on the Linden-Soesdyke Highway. Not many people are familiar with it as it is often mistaken to be part of Kuru Kururu, which is situated opposite; others think it is called Ideal owing to the name of the road.

Untangling our cricket story

Hardly a week goes by in the Caribbean without some disappointed West Indies cricket fan bemoaning the slide of the team that was once at the top but now is bouncing around at the bottom. 

A male Spot-breasted Woodpecker (Colaptes punctipectus) perched on the Abary River trail, Guyana (Photo by Kester Clarke www.kesterclarke.net)

Spot-breasted Woodpecker

The spot-breasted woodpecker is found in a wide variety of habitats such as rainforests, mangroves and swamp edges among others throughout Amazonia, the Guianas, Venezuela and Northern Colombia.

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