The failure of the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) to engineer a national chess championship during 2016 was excruciating to those persons who qualified for the tournament, and markedly embarrassing for those who are in tune with the game.
The qualifiers were held during the final quarter of the year, but the actual championship did not take place. Was it a denial of sponsorship for the illustrious competition? In life, as in chess, there is the principle of contingency: everything depends on everything else. The major aspect of this equation, in this case sponsorship, is dependent or contingent on whatever is happening around those dedicated benefactors, taking into consideration also, that
