U-10 players score 5, 4, 3 and 2 points at online rapid championship

From top left (clockwise) are Aquilani Swaminadha, Julian Mohabir, Jacob Frank McDonald and Nicholas Zhang (Photos courtesy of John Lee)

Guyana’s Under-10 chess players who participated in the FIDE Online Rapid World Cup Cadets & Youth Champ-ionship 2021 expressed themselves handsomely against the creme de la creme of the U-10 community of chess players worldwide.

Pre-eminent among the select group of U-10 chess players was Aquilani Swaminadha, who scored 5 points (a win = 1 point, a draw = ½ point, a loss = 0 point) and placed 125th among the 200-plus participants. Julian Mohabir scored 4 points and placed 164th; Nicholas Zhang, 3 points, 198th and Jacob Frank McDonald, 2 points, 212th.