Round 1

Seventy players have register for the Sagicor Open Junior chess championship, which began, today at the N.U.W.P headquarters. This year’s event attracted a record number of overseas players which include a 17 player line up Trinidad and Tobago, two 2 players form Jamaica and another 2 players from Surinam.

No scare for Top Player

On the top board number one seed Askari Elson of Barbados easily defeated the unrated Keron of Cabrillis of Trinidad. On board two 2 Darren Wisdom of Jamaica defeated Crystal Carrington of the lodge school. In other action defending Champion Allan Munro of Trinidad defeated Caleb Clarke of Lester Vaughn School. On board 22 top seed of Jamaica overcame Felix Huggins from the lodge school. On board 33 top seed Avinash Wahi of Suriname won against Mario Butcher of the Alexandria school. In an interesting encounter On board 18 ten (10) year Christopher Raphael of Trinidad defeated Roshni Jagroep of Suriname

Marathon Games

Dave Melwani who had an advantage of a Queen in the endgame faltered under time pressure to stalemate his game against Paul Forde from the lodge school in a game that lasted 65 moves In another Bajan T&T clash Alpacino Smith of Trinidad overcame Harrison O’Neal of the lodge school in game that lasted 76 moves.

Action Tomorrow

On board one (1) top Junior Askari Elson will have the black Pieces against Emmerson Hurley of Garrison Secondary. Board 2 will see Darren Wisdom of Jamaica pushing the white pieces against Christopher Raphael of Jamaica. One other interesting match up will see National Qualifier Martyn Delcastilho of the Lodge school playing the white pieces against T&T reigning national ladies champion Desiree Derrick.