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Barbados players have found the going tough so far in the 2023 Heroes Day Chess tournament being played over this Heroes Day weekend at the Coles Building, Bay Street, Bridgetown
In the top master’s section, local boys international master Orlando Husbands and FIDE master Martyn Del Castilho are battling in a field which include four grandmasters Neuris Delgado(Paraguay), Cristhian Rios(Colombia) and
The Barbados chess team has qualified for the 2023 Central American and Caribbean Games (CAC Games 2023) to be held in El Salvador in June this year.
The team qualified for the championship over the weekend when they played on the online Tornelo p
It has been a busy week for Bajan chess players as they pushed pawns locally, in North America and as far as Europe with some degree of success.
Firstly, Renaldo Rochester after a long layoff returned to capture the Paul King Memorial tournament in dramatic fashion The tournament was only decided in the last round when Rochester defeated veteran Othneil Harewood to climb to 6 ½ points from
International master Orlando Husbands continued to add to his recent accolades when he captured the Blitz Chess Championship in dramatic fashion over the last weekend.
Blitz chess is a fast form of chess played where each player has three minutes with a 30 second increment from move one for each player and is akin to T20 cricket.
Husbands had to hold off