Stabroek Weekend

 Russian chess grandmaster Ian Nepomniachtchi competes for the FIDE World Championship title in April. Current world champion Norway's Magnus Carlsen defeated Nepomniachtchi in 2021 in a title match
and has refused to play him again. China's Ding Liren will face Nepomniachtchi for the title. Nepomniachtchi plays in the WR Chess Masters in Germany as pictured. (Photo: Lennart Ootes)
Russian chess grandmaster Ian Nepomniachtchi competes for the FIDE World Championship title in April. Current world champion Norway’s Magnus Carlsen defeated Nepomniachtchi in 2021 in a title match and has refused to play him again. China’s Ding Liren will face Nepomniachtchi for the title. Nepomniachtchi plays in the WR Chess Masters in Germany as pictured. (Photo: Lennart Ootes)

In defence of classical chess

It seems as if the chess world is acknowledging the importance of traditional chess with the hosting of two esteemed classical events.

Berkley Semple

Berkley Semple’s poetry a fitting tribute to Guyana republic celebration

History Even Sisyphus rested considering a new approach upstairs Straight up this time this stone all the way to Elysium But we could not, there was so much to do down here, The cane the cane-cutting, egged on, the foreman saying, “some Of you lazy-lazy,” if in pith helmet a high horse driver edging the field Would remember to us another kind of history, chamars Bent between stanzas of wavering cane under sun that keels Their spines, dry their substance like raisins until the stars Were switched on.

 Arlington Weithers’ Throop Street Series: Thalos Script, Acrylic polymer emulsions with pigments on canvas 60” x 50” (2000) (Photo: Courtesy of the Artist, Collection of Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans)

When artists talk

Writing on the heels of moderating a discussion on “The State of Art” for the “Reimagining Borders: Talking Art…” event hosted from January 27 to February 3, 2023 – a collaboration between Rufaro Centre and the Roots and Culture Gallery – gave way to many negotiations to adequately represent the proceedings in the following paragraphs.

Lucas stock index

Last Update: 1,702.593                  Movement: -0.697% Current Update: 1,691.084            YTD Movement: 4.265% LUCAS STOCK INDEX (LSI) The Lucas Stock Index fell a further 0.697 percent during the second period of trading in February 2023 on the sale of 84,737 shares.

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