WITH nine easy wins senior national chess champion, Wendell Meusa, played unbeaten and settled Anthony Drayton to second place position in the senior category of the COURTS/ECI Engineering One Day Blitz Tournament which was played ont Saturday at the Main Street Branch of COURTS.

The junior category of the competition went to Saeed Ali, whose six wins put him above second place finisher Davion Mars, while Christian Shivrattan took the third place position.

Former junior chess champion Anthony Drayton, who outgrew the junior category earlier this year, succumbed in his match against Meusa suffering his only lost and ending with 8 wins.

Against Meusa, Drayton made a slight error in the opening, and Meusa seized the initiative and capitalized on the error to claim the match.

Third place position, for the senior category, went to Carlos Petterson who had six wins. Arnold Phang and Leslie Campbell with four points apiece rounded out the top five players, of the senior category.

Following the tournament, Meusa conceded that it was one of his easiest win in a tournament to date.

“All of the matches were easily won, I had expected a little more competition.” Meusa said.
Already established as Guyana’s best chess player in the longer version of the game, Meusa is quickly proving himself a master of this shorter version of the game.
Last Saturday’s tournament handed Meusa his second consecutive blitz tournament this year, having prevailed unbeaten as well in the Trophy Stall Blitz held back in January. At that tournament, Drayton in his last tournament as a junior won the junior category.

The senior category featured 10 players playing in the round robin format. The tournament took the Swiss format with a time control of 5 minutes per player.

Following the end of the tournament the winners were presented with their prizes during a humble presentation ceremony

During the presentation, President of the Guyana Chess Federation, Irshad Mohamed, expresses his gratitude to the sponsors of the tournament – Courts Guyana Limited and ECI Engineering, thanking them for their contribution to this tournament.

The presentation was attended by Ricardo Semple, a representative from ECI Engineering and Dwayne Browne, a representative from courts