Top Chess players gear up for action as AGM looms

Apr 15, 2016 Sports

Engineering & Construction Inc chess championships

The nation’s top chess payers will throw down the gauntlet, towards the acquisition of top honours when the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) in collaboration with Engineering & Construction Inc. stages a Seven Round Swiss Tournament at the National Resource Center, Woolford Avenue, starting tomorrow, Saturday 16 April at 14:00 hrs. Activities will continue at the same venue on Sunday 17 April at 09:30hrs before culminating on the 23rd and 24th April.
The players to watch are National Champion (Snr), Wendell Meusa and his predecessor, Anthony Drayton. All eyes will also be on Haifeng Su, Shariffa Ali, Rashad Hussain, Davion Mars and Roberto Neto among others, all mean players on their day.
The registration fee starts at one thousand dollars and will be collected half an hour before the first pawn is moved.
Meanwhile, affiliates of the GCF are gearing up for their Annual General Meeting on May 15. Incumbent, Irshad Mohammed, has said that he will not be seeking reelection and National Senior Champion, Wendell Meusa, intimated that he will be vying for the top spot.
Kaieteur Sport spoke with Meusa and indeed he indicated that he as broad plans for the forward movement of the sport, Meusa, who lost his mother, Samantha, to cancer just a week ago was taken up with funeral arrangements and other related matters but promised to divulge his plans and projections for the sport’s advancement, soon.