Candidate Master (CM) Anthony Drayton played unbeaten Sunday to win the Guyana Chess federation’s first tournament for the year, the Caricom one-day Rapid Play (Blitz) tournament held at the National Resource Center.
Drayton ended with the maximum seven points winning all of his matches and justifying his FIDE rating of 1947, the highest by a Guyanese.
His toughest challenges came in the matches against Loris Nathoo, Alexander Duncan, brother of former national players Aggrey and Dr. Trevor Duncan and the experienced former president of the Guyana Chess Federation Errol Tiwari but he prevailed in the endgames against those opponents.
Chino Chung with five points and losses to Drayton and Tiwari, ended in second place while Nathoo, with four and one half points secured the third position.
Duncan and Tiwari were joint fourth with four points apiece.
In the junior division Joshua Gopaul of St. Stanislaus College was the winner with Davion Mars and Roberto Neto second and third respectively.
Gopaul and Mars both ended on four points but Gopaul was declared the winner on the tiebreak system.
Neto ended on three and a half points.
