The Guyana Chess Federation needs all the goodwill it can get

By Errol Tiwari On In Chess with Errol |
Darwin London (right) at the Banks DIH Malta Chess Tournament held at the University of Guyana Tain Campus in Berbice, in April 2013. I participated in the said tournament and recall London seizing a pawn from me during a minor piece exchange. London is currently in secondary school and he continues winning tournaments.
Darwin London (right) at the Banks DIH Malta Chess Tournament held at the University of Guyana Tain Campus in Berbice, in April 2013. I participated in the said tournament and recall London seizing a pawn from me during a minor piece exchange. London is currently in secondary school and he continues winning tournaments.

John London, a Berbician father of two teenage sons, Marley, 17, and Darwin, 16, in a letter published on April 11 in the Stabroek News, expressed some dissatisfaction with the manner in which the Junior Team was chosen to represent Guyana at the 7th Carifta Chess Tournament in Suriname.

London was not exaggerating in describing his sons’ chess aptitude as prolific in accordance with local standards. He was correct. Very few local junior chess players can seize a game from Darwin, and opposing Marley is not a Sunday afternoon walk in the park.

I happen to understand their singular strengths as chess players. I played against both of them. Darwin has won a fair number of individual chess trophies in, and for, Berbice.