Drayton wins Caricom Rapid Play chess tournament

The top players at Sunday’s one-day Caricom Rapid Play chess tournament.

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,