The Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) will stage the DeSinco Trading Limited Junior Chess Championship Qualifiers from April 9th -12th at the National Stadium Providence from 9:00am.
This was confirmed by an official release from the GCF.
According to the correspondence, the top 10 players emerging from the four day event will be invited to compete at the National Junior Championships to determine the champion of the section.
Andre Jagnandan is the defending champion, after he clinched the title in 2019. The 2020 edition of the national championship ended abruptly in March 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The release stated, “Junior players include Keron Sandiford, who won the Best Junior prize in the recent Gaico Grand Prix Tournament, along with Ethan Lee, Jaden Taylor, Oluwadare Oyeyipo, Rajiv Lee, Ricardo Narine, Jessica Callender and Kishan Puran will all be participating.
Sasha Shariff, who won the Women’s Championship in 2020 and also represented Guyana numerous times in international tournaments, including the Olympiad in 2019, will also be competing.”
Approximately 50 players have already signed up to compete in the qualifiers which are scheduled for seven rounds. Each fixture will be played on a time control of 90 minutes, with 30 seconds allotted for each move.
“The tournament is open to all local chess players aged 19 years or younger on January 1st, 2022 and will be FIDE rated. Players interested in competing must register by 17:00hrs April 8th on guyanachess.org and pay a registration fee of GYD$1000,” the release stated.
The event will be supervised by FIDE-arbiters Irshad Mohamad, John Lee and Anand Raghunauth. Boards 1 to 6 will be aired live on the official guyanachess.org website, as well on its YouTube channel during every round.
“The Guyana Chess Federation is thrilled to have DeSinco Ltd once again partnering to provide this opportunity to the young Guyanese chess players who are eager to commence over the board play and expresses its heartfelt thanks to Alicia DeAbreu, Chief Executive Officer for also assisting with the sanitization aspect of the event. The GCF would also like to express thanks to the Ministry of Youth, Culture and Sport for providing the use of the National Stadium for this annual event”, the correspondence added.
