For most countries, the national championship in a sporting discipline remains the celebrated feature of that particular event. In Guyana, it is no different. For instance, the National Chess Championship worldwide captures the imagination of those who play the game from the amateur to the professional levels. Winning the championship is a noble undertaking. In local chess, where the game is not contested in the numbers as it was in the 1970s and the 1980s, emerging victorious in the championship still means something of an intellectual coup, and carries with it, subdued prestige. Respect is garnered when persons are made aware of abounding enhanced intelligence coupled with attributes of perseverance, the implementation of sensible concepts and logical examples of clear thinking.
Maurice Broomes won the local national championship more times than anyone else ever did. In fact, I cannot recall a year
