The Guyana Men and Women’s team defeated Burundi and Timor-Leste respectively in Round 10 of the 44th FIDE Chess Olympiad at the Sheraton Mahabalipuram Resort and Convention Centre, Chennai, India.
This was confirmed by a release from the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF). The Men’s team consisted of Candidate Master (CM) Taffin Khan, FIDE Master Anthony Drayton, Loris Nathoo, and Ethan Lee, who tallied 2.5 against Burundi’s 1.5 points to win the round.
Drayton defeated Joe Rukundo, while CM Khan drew with Dieudonne Muheto (1830), Nathoo played to a stalemate with Hugues Mutabazi (1666), while Lee and Havyarimana Elvis (1724) failed to be separated.
