Errol Tiwari

The Kei-Shar’s FIDE Qualifying Tournament was a keenly contested event that brought out most of Guyana’s exemplary chess players.

The Kei-Shar’s FIDE qualifying chess tournament concludes today with Wendell Meusa in the lead with 4½ points from the five games which have been completed so far.

The game is taken from the 19th Amber Blindfold and Rapid tournament that was held in March in Monaco.

World chess champion Viswanathan Anand struck back brilliantly against Bulgaria’s Veselin Topalov to take the lead in their world championship match, following an unsatisfactory performance in game one. 

The annual Kei-Shar’s chess tournament begins today at the Kei-Shar’s Sports Club at Hadfield and Camp Streets.

The Guyana Chess Federation is preparing to host a FIDE- titled chess tournament which will enable its players to receive world chess ratings. 

The 8th Intra-Regional Central Bank Games were played last weekend at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall and the National Stadium.

The Bank of Guyana is currently hosting the 8th Intra-Regional Central Bank Games comprising nine sporting disciplines.

In about a week’s time, the Bank of Guyana’s chess team will oppose their counterparts from the Caribbean in a regional chess competition at the 8th Intra-Regional Central Bank Games.

This game is taken from the German Bundesliga, which is the strongest team championship in the world.

Steintz (the first world champion) recognised and demonstrated that chess has an objective basis.

‘As much as you enjoy winning, remember that winning every time is not ideal.

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss.

The January Trophy Stall chess tournament promises a turn-out of the country’s strongest chess players. The

The annual Hastings tournament ended in a four-way tie for first place between grandmasters Mark Hebden, British champion David Howell, Andrei Istratescu of Romania and Romain Edouard of France.

Chess has struggled into the new year with more hopes of attracting a population to the game.

The intention of the Guyana Chess Federation is to transform chess from backroom obscurity to a Goliath like cricket in popularity among sporting disciplines in Guyana.

The distinctive National Schools Chess Cham-pionship that was held last weekend for the second year in succession sent an unambiguous message to the organisers and sponsors of the tournament.

ChessWe are not expecting chess games which feature deep and inventive play from those schoolchildren who have converged in Georgetown for the National Schools Chess Championship.