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This poster depicts the seven qualifiers for the National Junior Chess Championship and the current national junior champion. The contenders for the national title will meet shortly in a Championship Tournament.

Qualifiers named for national junior championship

In chess as in life, when people cannot figure out what you are doing, they are kept in a state of terror – waiting, uncertain, confused.

Teenager Nellisha Johnson, a member of Guyana’s 2018 team to the Chess Olympiad, which was held in Batumi, Georgia, is participating in this year’s qualifier for the National Junior Chess Championship. The qualifier will select seven persons along with the previous national junior champion to compete for the 2019 National Junior Championship. Johnson lost her first game of the qualifier to Chelsea Juma, a capable player among the women.

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Wheels begin to turn for national championships

The wheels of the 2019 National Chess Championships have begun to turn with the current hosting of the qualifier for the National Junior Championship.

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Qualifier for Junior Championship opens today

The qualifier for the National Junior Chess Championship begins today from 10 am at the Resource Centre, Woolford Avenue, opposite the Government Technical Institute.

Flashback! This was the cover of the January 1977 chess magazine Ajedrez which was published by the Guyana Chess Federation. President of the federation Burnham is at centre. The occasion was a cocktail reception at the Residence for the first presentation of the Burnham Trophy to the winner of the National Chess Championship. From left are: Nigel Jagan, Wendell Jackman, Aftab Karimullah, Roy Khan and Michael Chan.

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National junior championship qualifier starts next week

The qualifier for the National Junior Chess Championship begins next Sunday, February 24, at the National Resource Centre, Woolford Avenue (opposite the Government Technical Institute).

President of the Guyana Chess Federation James Bond (centre) with the winners of his Birthday Bash Celebratory Chess Tournament, which was held on Saturday, February 2. Bond created a one-day, 12-round Blitz Chess Tournament to honour the nation’s youth who adore the speed chess phenomenon. On Bond’s right are the Seniors: Anthony Drayton, Davion Mars and Roberto Neto and on his left, the Juniors: Andre Jagnandan, Saeed Ali and Joshua Gopaul, representing first to third in both categories.

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Chess off to a roaring start

Chess got off to a roaring beginning this year as two successive tournaments were held in late January and early February.

President of the Guyana Chess Federation James Bond (left) presents the winner of last Saturday’s chess tournament Davion Mars with his trophy at the National Resource Centre. Mars, a student of the University of Guyana, overcame a field of enthusiastic players to be crowned champion of the one-day tournament.

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Davion Mars wins year’s first chess tournament

University of Guyana student Davion Mars won the Saturday, January 26 edition of the rapid-blitz chess tournament which was held under the auspices of the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF).

Magnus Carlsen (left) and Viswanathan Anand after their game at the Tata Steel Masters Chess Tournament in Holland. Carlsen and Anand fought for over six hours before Anand cracked giving the world champion the victory. It was Carlsen’s first win against Anand in classical chess since 2015 at the Grenke Tournament. The two met twice for the world title and Carlsen won both times. (Photo: Tata Steel Chess Twitter)

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Chess year begins with fun, semi-rapid tournament

The story of 2019 chess in Guyana began modestly yesterday with a one-day, semi-rapid tournament.

Ian Nepomniachtchi of Russia (right) and Anish Giri, the Netherlands’ strongest chess player, during their clash at the 2019 Tata Steel Masters Chess Tournament in Wijk aan Zee, Holland. Giri, one of the world’s top ten chess players, was defeated by Nepomniachtchi, who holds the lead. (Photo: Alina l’Ami)

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Nepomniachtchi took early lead in Tata Steel Masters group

After six rounds of the elite Masters Group of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament in Wijk aan Zee, Holland, Russian chess grandmaster Ian Nepomniachtchi was in the lead.

The current women’s world chess champion Ju Wenjun. The Candidates Tournament scheduled for May in Kazan, Russia, will identify a player to contest the 2019 World Championship Match against Wenjun at a venue and date to be announced in due course. Last month, Wenjun won the 2018 World Rapid Chess Championship. (Photo: Lennart Ootes)

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New women’s world chess championship to follow candidates’ format

Arkady Dvorkovich, the recently appointed president of the World Chess Federation (FIDE), has instituted a new format for the Women’s World Chess Championship.

Chinese chess grandmaster Ju Wenjun (left) the new 2018 Rapid World Champion, with 2018 Classical and Blitz World Champion Magnus Carlsen recently in St Petersburg, Russia (Photo: Lennart Ootes)

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2018 was positive year for chess

During the closing days of December, the 2018 Rapid and Blitz FIDE World Chess Championships were played in St Petersburg, Russia.

In November, Ju Wenjun of China, 27, successfully defended her World Chess Championship title in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. In the process, she raised her FIDE rating to 2575. China’s Hou Yifan remains at the top of the FIDE points table for women with 2663 following engagements with the most prolific grandmasters worldwide. Yifan is also completing a degree programme at Oxford University in England.
(Photo: ugra 2018.fide.com)

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Will your favourites win 2018 chess honours?

At the end of each year, the publication Chess Base invites readers to vote for the: 1.

American chess grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura examining the board as he faced France’s Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in the final of the London Chess Classic last week. Nakamura won the Classic in the Blitz category cementing the fact he is considered one of the finest blitz players competing internationally. (Photo: Lennart Ootes/Grand Chess Tour)

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Give the gift of a book this Christmas

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds.

Woman chess grandmaster 18-year-old Qiyu Zhou (pronounced Chee-you Jo), an Under-14 World Chess Champion, represented Canada at the Chess Olympiad starting from 2014. Recently, she published a study in relation to the number of draws contained in high level chess and which may be responsible for a decline in sponsorship. Zhou contends the number of draws in chess games have increased over the years. (Photo: Chessbase)

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Drawn games becoming more widespread in chess

We witnessed recently, a series of draws in the classical games of the World Chess Championship Match.

Former World Chess Champion Viswanathan Anand (right) being interviewed by international journalist Sagar Shah after the 2018 World Championship Chess Match at his home in Chennai, India (Photo: Amruta Mokal)

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Anand on the 2018 world chess championship match

The renown that riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

2018 World Chess Champion, Norway’s Magnus Carlsen with his gold medal and trophy during the closing ceremony of the World Championship Match on Wednesday last, in London, England. Carlsen defeated the USA’s Fabiano Caruana, thus retaining his title. The 12 classical games were all drawn and the match went into overtime during which Carlsen prevailed with three victories. (Photo: Niki Riga)

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Valiant effort from Caruana, but Carlsen is the greatest

“Congratulations to Magnus Carlsen, World Champion once more! Valiant fight from Caruana.

World chess champion Magnus Carlsen with the 9-year-old Indian-origin chess prodigy Shreyas Royal, who was given the significant honour of making one of the first moves of the 2018 Carlsen-Caruana world championship chess match. He is ranked No 4 in the chess world within his age group. Royal won an immigration contest to remain in the UK recently, and played in the 2018 British Chess Championship. He has been described as a “national asset” by British newspaper, The Guardian. (Photo: Nikolai Dunaevsky/World Chess)

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Carlsen and Caruana evenly matched in World Chess Championship

Since he became chess champion of the world in 2013 following his defeat of Viswanathan Anand, Magnus Carlsen, 27, can be described as the light of the chess world.

Magnus Carlsen, 27, world chess champion (Photo: World Chess/Chess Base)

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Strategy, mind games and the World Chess Championship

Chess contains the concentrated essence of life. In chess, as in life, when people cannot figure out what you are doing, they are kept in a state of terror — waiting, uncertain, confused – Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power The World Championship of Chess is riddled with suppositions.