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Young chess stars ready to shine at Youth CAC Games in T&T
Kaieteur Sports – Eleven Guyanese chess players landed in Trinidad and Tobago on Sunday August 20 to vie for victory in the XIV CAC Youth Chess Festival.
The Championship will be played from August 21st to 26th at the Cascadia Hotel in Port-of-Spain. The rhythm of play will be 90 minutes plus an increment of 30 seconds per move from move one.
Queen’s College’s Matthew Singh and former Marian Academy student Ronan Lee are competing in the U18 absolute category. Queen’s College’s Aniyah Couchman will play the U18 female category. Alexander Zhang of Queen’s College and St. Stanislaus College student Italy Ton Chung compete in the U16 absolute and female categories respectively.
Queen’s College’s Kyle Couchman (brother of Aniyah Couchman) and St. Joseph High School’s Dominic Sam are in the U14 absolute category. Siblings Ciel of Queen’s College and Kaija Clement of St. Roses High School are in the U14 female category.
Alexander’s brother Nicholas Zhang (Queen’s College) will play the U12 absolute. Kateleya Sam from Mae’s Primary is the youngest on the team in the U10 female category.
The Guyana Chess Federation team for the Youth CAC games in Trinidad and Tobago pose for a photo.
Head of the Delegation accompanying the team is Marcia Lee, who also serves as GCF Secretary and Head of the Women in Chess Committee. Roberto Neto also accompanies the team to coach the players throughout the tournament. He, alongside FM Anthony Drayton, also helped prep the team prior to their departure. Neto is an experienced national player and who has represented Guyana globally.
This event is FIDE rated and offers these young players not only the opportunity to put their skills to the test against the best and brightest players under the age of 18 across the region, but also the chance for those skills to be rewarded with titles and norms.
Gold, Silver and Bronze trophies will be awarded to players taking the top three spots in each category. The top three CAC countries, based on total points, will also receive trophies. Countries will earn points based on top five finishes in each category; where a 5th place finish grants one point and 1st place rewards five points.
As is typical for these events, the winners will be decided by the points obtained by each player. The champions will be decided by who obtains the most points, and in the case of ties, winners will be decided by the implementation of a number of tie break systems.
The nine-round Swiss system tournament features over 200 players from 15 countries across the Central American and Caribbean region.
President of the Trinidad and Tobago Chess Federation Sonja Johnson confirmed this, while stating that St. Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Lucia and Haiti are fielding contingents for the first time alongside long-time competitors such as Honduras, Guatemala, Panama, Costa Rica, Cuba, Jamaica, Barbados and Suriname.
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