In chess we play the same game over and over again. We are constantly experimenting. Each game leads to the next. Following a result in a game, we rehash and analyze the in-game possibilities of what might have been had we played this, or that. Herein lies the magnificence of the rich ancient game. Only a chess player can comprehend the satisfaction to be obtained from participation in a chess competition. Each day, therefore, that the local chess federation delays the organization of tournaments, players are deprived of the joy they feel from playing chess.
But why should players await the decision of the federation to re-introduce chess tournaments to the public at large? It is because the federation possesses the required equipment with which to host a modern and useful chess tournament, most of which was obtained from the World Chess Federation, the governing body of world chess. In 2007 when chess was re-energized, it was DDL’s Loris Nathoo who made chess tournaments a possibility. He purchased a fair number of chess clocks in Miami and donated same to the interim body that administered the affairs of the federation. Eureka! Chess tournaments once again become a reality and entered into the consciousness of our nation. In 2007, Guyana’s membership of the WCF had lapsed, and therefore she was not eligible to receive equipment for countrywide use. The Nathoo clocks became obsolete with the striking new inventions. Those digital clocks were eventually replaced by the Fischer-type, a modern version which permits the
