The recent Berbice Inter-Schools Chess Championship coincided with the first Jamaican International Chess Festival. Both events targeted youngsters and signalled promise that chess is moving in the right direction. We have to keep moving forward if we intend for the English-speaking Caribbean to produce, at the very least, some eminent chess masters, and at the most, spectacular grandmasters.
In Berbice, New Amsterdam Multilateral demonstrated its chess prowess by winning the championship, while the individual first prize went to Darwin London Nurse of the Berbice Educational Institute. President of the Berbice Chess Association Krishnanand Raghunandan expressed the hope that the participation of ten schools from Berbice would inspire an increase in the number for 2018.
