FIDE releases 2018 ratings
The World Chess Federation (FIDE) has released its May 2018 Ratings and Guyana is included.
The World Chess Federation (FIDE) has released its May 2018 Ratings and Guyana is included.
When the two ears are put side by side [they form] the shape of a heart.
John London, a Berbician father of two teenage sons, Marley, 17, and Darwin, 16, in a letter published on April 11 in the Stabroek News, expressed some dissatisfaction with the manner in which the Junior Team was chosen to represent Guyana at the 7th Carifta Chess Tournament in Suriname.
I waited patiently for the Lord. He turned to me and heard my cry for help, He pulled me out of a horrible pit, out of the mud and clay.
A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
When your past calls, don’t answer. It has nothing new to say.
A new breeze is blowing, and a nation refreshed by freedom stands ready to push on.
The seven-round National Chess Championships continued yesterday and will conclude today at the National Resource Centre, Woolford Avenue.
Who will win the 2018 National Senior Chess Championship? The question is uppermost in our minds.
“Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do; strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do.”
“[Chess] makes man wiser and far-sighted.” – Vladimir Putin, during the 2001 World Championship knockout in Moscow, as quoted in Chess Base.
There is some sort of expectation that the top finishers of the National Chess Championship would be guaranteed a place on the Guyana team for the spectacular biennial 2018 Chess Olympiad in September.
Countries and governments vary vastly in size and ‘weight’… That does not mean that the biggest, meanest countries always get their way: their huge resources may not be easy to apply on the scale that counts.
One of the things that first attracted me to chess is that it brings you into contact with intelligent, civilized people – men of the stature of Garry Kasparov, the former world champion, who was my part-time coach.
India’s chess superstar Viswanathan Anand, Holland’s Anish Giri, Azerbaijan’s Shakhriyar Mamedyarov and the US’s Wesley So are co-leaders in the exclusive Masters category of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament ongoing in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands, after five rounds of the 13-game competition.
2017 was a great year for world chess. The column highlighted whatever was of importance in chess locally and internationally.
Chess grandmasters Viswanathan Anand and Ju Wenjun, and Magnus Carlsen and Nana Dzagnidze completed 2017 in fine style as they won the World Rapid Championships and the World Blitz Championships.
Guyana’s chess for 2017 has both been invigorating and disappointing. On the positive side, the Berbice Chess Association was established, an overture was made to the Georgetown Prison, Guyana was represented at an important World Chess Federation (FIDE) overseas meeting, the Berbice Inter-Schools Chess Championship was held and Guyana won the inaugural Caribbean Chess Cup.
“Dear God,” she prayed, “let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.”
Garry Kasparov, a previous world chess champion, has documented his insights into his 1997 match with the IBM computer Deep Blue.
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