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New Amsterdam Multilateral School emerged the winner of the 2017 Berbice Inter-Schools Chess Championship last month as the newly established Berbice Chess Association held its first activity. In photo: Krishnanand Raghunandan (right), President of the Berbice Chess Association presents the winning team with a trophy. The members of the winning team are: Charran Woarti, Demetre Prettipaul, Yutesh Dyal and Devon Kissoon.

Chess is getting younger by the day

“I tried to be reasonable; I didn’t like it.” – Clint Eastwood In the game of chess, you cannot be reasonable.

Requiring a draw in the final round to win the 2017 Isle of Man Chess Tournament, World Champion Magnus Carlsen (right), playing the black pieces, worked his way for equality against American grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura (left). In 18 excellent moves the draw was achieved. Carefully observing the game is former world champion Viswanathan Anand (standing). Anand placed second, and Nakamura third. (Photo: Chess.com/Maria Emelianova)

Carlsen wins Isle of Man Open

Magnus Carlsen, 26, the charismatic Norwegian who is the World Chess Champion, blew away some eminent grandmasters to capture the 2017 Isle of Man Open Chess Tournament last Sunday.

Leron Aronian wins 2017 FIDE World Cup

Following a full two weeks of elite international chess, Armenian grandmaster Levon Aronian toppled each of his opponents to emerge victorious in the 2017 World Cup. On

Aronian and Liren through to Candidates Tournament

The most accurate chess thinkers worldwide, the most prolific grandmasters in the world, 128 of them, began the 2017 FIDE World Cup with solid hopes of taking one of the two qualifying spots for next year’s Candidates Tournament.

Grandmasters battle for places in Candidates Tournament

One of the selected aspirations of a chess grandmaster is to become a world chess champion.

A look back at the Fischer, Spassky championship match

You explain deep mysteries, because even the dark is light to you.

Who will be India’s 50th grandmaster?

In his largely entertaining and insightful book, Grandmasters of Chess Pulitzer prize winner and music critic/chess correspondent for the New York Times, Harold C Schonberg, tells us about the origin of the word grandmaster.

During a strong grandmaster chess tournament two weeks ago in Vlissingen, Netherlands, 12-year-old Indian International Master R Praggnanandhaa (right) played a 20-board clock simultaneous exhibition against some recognized Dutch chess players. ‘Pragg’ as he is called, won the encounter 20-0. Clock simultaneous exhibitions are more taxing than those without since one has to keep moving and maintain the quality of one’s moves. In photo: Pragg exchanges the traditional handshake prior to the beginning of his encounter. (PhotoChess News/Ploegarts)

Constant practice necessary for success in competitive chess

In 2005 when he retired from active competition, Russian Grandmaster and World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov was the highest-ranked player in the world.

Kasparov rises and falls

At the St Louis Rapid and Blitz Tournament the chess world eagerly awaited the re-emergence of the former 13th world champion from Russia, Garry Kasparov.

President of the Guyana Chess Federation James Bond (right) presents a trophy and cheque to Ghansham Alijohn, the second place winner of the junior category of the Rapid Chess Tournament that was held three weeks ago at the YMCA. A student of St Stanislaus College, Ghansham is fondly known as ‘Little Anand’ in chess circles, perhaps, due to his style of play. He plays chess seriously, and is one of the nation’s bright prospects for the future.

Vishy Anand in shock win at Sinquefield

When the finest chess players on the planet clash in the same competition, no one, not even the world champion, is safe.

Can Hou Yifan qualify to represent China alongside her male peers?

Chinese woman chess grandmaster Hou Yifan, 23, a former chess prodigy and three-time Women’s World Champion, emerged victorious in the 50th Biel Chess Festival in Switzerland last week.

Drayton, Gopaul win seven-round tournament

Following a six-month period of non-activity in tangible chess playing, the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) is back on stage in the local limelight.

Azerbaijan chess grandmaster Teimour Radjabov won the hotly contested FIDE Grand Prix Geneva Tournament recently with a fighting draw against Russia’s Ian Nepomniachtchi. Nepomniachtchi required a victory to take sole first place but Radjabov denied his wish with energetic play in the final game of the tournament. The exacting Grand Prix series is being conducted to identify two participants for the impending Candidates Tournament. In photo: Radjabov (left) discusses the game following the encounter. (Photo by Valera Belobeev for World Chess)

Azerbaijan grandmaster seems headed to Candidates Tournament

Teimour Radjabov, a chess grandmaster from Azerbaijan who is ranked Number 32 in the world, placed first in the recent FIDE Grand Prix in Geneva.

The return of Kasparov

The game (chess) has always been thought of as a relatively pure measure of intellect, and the presence of a Soviet atop the world rankings signalled to the empire’s subjects, no matter how poor and starving they may have been, that they possessed some sort of superiority – Jack Dickey, in an article titled “Can Garry Kasparov stay a move ahead of Vladimir Putin?”

Berbice Chess Association launched

Berbice is traditionally known for its rich political and academic history, and its fabulously outstanding cricketing showmanship.

Carlsen bounced back to dominate Paris chess tour

It is a significant truth that World Chess Champion Norway’s Magnus Carlsen, 26, the person who holds the highest chess rating in the world at 2832, cannot be sidelined for long.

Carlsen faltered at historic Altibox chess tourney

The world recently witnessed an intense nine-round chess tournament in Stavanger, Norway, featuring ten of the world’s highest-ranked chess players.

Aronian set to rejoin chess’s crème de la crème

At the conclusion of the 8th round of the brutal Altibox Norway Chess Tournament, categorized as the strongest-ever in the world based on the elite rank of its participants, world chess champion Magnus Carlsen sits in the penultimate position following his lone victory over his former challenger for the title, Sergey Karjakin.

Magnus Carlsen (left) versus Wesley So during their first round encounter at the Altibox Norway Chess Tournament in Stavanger, Norway. Carlsen is the world’s No 1 chess player while So is the No 2. The game ended in a fighting draw. Carlsen persevered with the white pieces but his opponent defended creatively. The tournament is ongoing and ends Friday. (Photo by Lennart Ootes/Chessbase)

Carlsen, So favoured to win Altibox tournament

The Norwegian Chess Federation celebrated the 5th anniversary of its Altibox Norway Chess Tournament by inviting the world’s strongest chess players to participate.

Paul Morphy: The chess prodigy

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. – Napoleon Bonaparte American chess master Paul Charles Morphy (1837-84) adhered to this motto when he engaged others in the royal game.