Drayton defeats International Master as chess team loses to Nigeria

The position at the end of the Board One game between Guyana’s Anthony Drayton 1828 and Nigeria’s International Master Bunmi Olape yesterday at the 41st World Chess championships in Tromso, Norway. Drayton was playing with the white pieces.

The national chess team failed to make it three wins in a row when they were beaten by Nigeria 1-3 yesterday as play in the 41st World Chess championships continued in Tromso, Norway.

Drayton, 1828, playing with the white pieces defeated the much higher ranked International Master Bunmi Olape, whose ranking is 2273. The game lasted 33 moves.

At the time the game ended Drayton had a Queen, two rooks and three pawns to his