Within recent years there has been a resuscitation of, and increased interest in chess, with many more annual tournaments sponsored and held than ever before in the history of the game in Guyana. As a result, we have discovered new and fine talent, and the standard of the game has definitely improved. -Forbes Burnham , President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana and the Guyana Chess Association, April 1975
Since the time, when Burnham uttered those refreshing words ‒ at least beginning from the nineties ‒ chess has been meandering casually.
