Chess with Errol

Dommaraju Gukesh
(Photo: FIDE/Mical Walusza)
Dommaraju Gukesh (Photo: FIDE/Mical Walusza)

At close to halfway point, Candidates still anyone’s game

As at Wednesday last, after six rounds in the 2024 FIDE World Champion-ship Candidates Chess Tournaments, 17-year-old Indian grandmaster Dommaraju Gukesh and Tan Zhongyi of China had taken the lead, but the race remained wide open.

Ricardo Narine poses with some students of Houston Secondary School displaying the chess sets
Ricardo Narine poses with some students of Houston Secondary School displaying the chess sets

Houston Secondary students exposed to chess

Five tournament-size chess sets were recently donated to the Houston Secondary School on the East Bank Demerara by the group Overseas Friends of Guyana Chess.

Shazeeda Rahim (right) opposing Nellisha Johnson at the Grand Prix

Sandiford and Rahim to the max

National junior chess champion Keron Sandiford made a bold statement two Thursday nights ago when he won the first Century 21 Grand Prix tournament of 2024.

Loris Nathoo playing in the 2023 Guyana National Chess Championship

A Benko Gambit gamble

Could an individual game in the single round robin event between Loris Nathoo, an improved 1700 player, and Taffin Khan, a 2000 FIDE competitor, signal the switch of the Guyana National Chess Championship title?

Chess sets donated

As the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) continues to roll out its school chess manoeuvres, overseas-based Guyanese Raymond Singh, a former 1980s GCF champion, has donated 2,000 chess sets to Guyana to use in the school system.

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