Guyanese chess players are being given an opportunity to oppose some leading chess nations of the Caribbean owing to the hosting of the Umada Cup chess tournament locally. The Umada Cup is an organized FIDE competition under its President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov and boasts a prize fund of US$16, 000. As of last Wednesday, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Jamaica and Suriname were already in place anticipating the start of the tournament which began Thursday at the Sleepin International Hotel, Brickdam.
Our local chess stalwarts, Drayton, Greenidge, Meusa, Feng, Thomas, Kriskal Persaud and Nathoo have been listed as participants in the