Now that the wisdom of participating at the 2014 Tromso Olympiad has been noted, it remains the obligation of the established body, the Guyana Chess Federation, to accelerate the promotion of chess. We should not allow the royal game to become cold. Rather, we should capitalize on this new found energy which we accumulated from the Olympiad, to bring additional players to chess, and simultaneously, to improve our rank internationally .
The real reason for the Soviet dominance of chess, and now the Chinese and even Cuban dominance, is, of course, their numerical preponderance.
The former Soviet Union had more first-rate players than any other three nations combined. By sheer weight of numbers,
