THE Wendell Meusa Chess Foundation and School of the Nations Chess Club will host two junior chess competitions over the weekend in the capital city.

For Nations, it will be its first chess scholastic competition as it aims to resuscitate its chess club.
School of the Nations is one of the schools with a Chess for Education programme from nursery to secondary level. Nations’ students not only benefit from the Chess for Education programme but the chess club also runs as an extracurricular activity for students who are mostly trained by FIDE National Instructor CM Wendell Meusa.

In the competition, which starts this morning at the school’s auditorium, players will battle through five rounds with 30 minutes per player.
Nations’ students and National junior players such as Joshua Khan and Jacob McDonald, who represented Guyana in CARIFTA this year, are set to participate in the multi-age group event, which will target players from as young as five years old all the way to upper high.
Meanwhile, former National champion and FIDE Candidate Master Meusa will be hosting his fourth Junior Chess Championships on Sunday and next Saturday at the National Sport Resource and Racquet Centre.

The Wendell Meusa Chess Foundation (WMCF) is the ‘Home of Chess Champions’ in Guyana as it continues to train many top national junior players.
Operating since 2009 under its old name Royal Chess Academy, WMCF has produced national junior champions such as Cecil Cox, Ron Motilall and even FM Anthony Drayton found his talent there.

With that said, WMCF 2019 Jr. Chess Championships will see Guyana’s current top national juniors such as the Lee brothers (Ethan and Ronan), Jaden Taylor, Jarrell Troyer, Chelsea Juma, the Johnson sisters (Waveney and Nellisha), Angel Rahim and Samirah Gobin.
The entire CARIFTA team should be participating and the event is being played as FIDE-rated, which will make it more competitive and entertaining.

The competition will run for seven rounds with one-hour sudden-death time control per player. Games will start at 09:00hrs and all games will be played under the rules and laws of FIDE.

Registration fee is $1 000 per child and all interested persons can contact Ms Clarke on 669-4731 (Nations Chess Club Director) or Wendell Meusa on 664-0124 for more information.