Chess with Errol

Ethan Lee, 19, who replaced Wendell Meusa when he withdrew from the 2022 Guyana Chess Olympiad team.
Ethan Lee, 19, who replaced Wendell Meusa when he withdrew from the 2022 Guyana Chess Olympiad team.

All eyes on the Olympiad team

“Once every four years the world goes to war. They call it the games.”

Guyana’s 2022 Chess Olympiad Women’s team members are from left: Pooja Lam, Nellisha Johnson, Sasha Shariff, Jessica Callender and Anaya Lall
Guyana’s 2022 Chess Olympiad Women’s team members are from left: Pooja Lam, Nellisha Johnson, Sasha Shariff, Jessica Callender and Anaya Lall

Anticipation high as Olympiad teams get set

There was an air of excited anticipation when the 2022 Guyana Chess Olympiad teams were announced last Sunday at the Park Vue Hotel as part of an awards presentation ceremony.

Davion Mars vs Ethan Lee 

Gaico Grand Prix

Today, we celebrate the magnificent return of face-to-face chess in pictures with the hosting of the Gaico Grand Prix Tournament at the National Stadium, Providence.

Grand prix marks return to face-to-face chess

Three years after the last behind-the-board classical chess game was contested in 2019, the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) is ready to re-commence this traditional activity with the Gaico Grand Prix Chess Tournament which begins on Saturday, March 19 at the National Stadium, Providence.

Loris Nathoo plays chess with Alessandra Ng-a-Fook of the St Ignatius Secondary School

Donation will help expand chess in Region Nine

JuLo’s Enterprises, a stationery and ice cream shop in Grove, East Bank Demerara, last weekend donated two FIDE- approved tournament-sized chess sets and one FIDE-approved DGT chess clock to the St Ignatius Secondary School in Lethem, Region Nine.

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