Shariff wins Diamond Insurance Women’s Chess Qualifiers

The top 10 players who will contest the Closed national women’s chess championships from Thursday at the School of the Nations.

Sasha Shariff with six-and-one- half points won the Guyana Chess federation (GCF) Diamond Insurance women’s seven round Swiss System Qualifiers.

National Under-16 Champion Anaya Lall was second with five points, losing only to Waveney Johnson and drawing her matches against Aditi Joshi and Italy Ton Chung.

Third was former U14 champion, Ciel Clement, who also ended with five points but lost out on the Sonneborn–Berger tie-break.