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Chess Federation hails government’s support in winning inaugural IGG title
Kaieteur Sports – President of the Guyana Chess Federation, Anand Ragunauth has commended his players for their hard work and for delivering for the first time, the Inter Guiana Games title. Ragunauth who has been at the helm of the Federation, which is investing in growing the sport, expressed elation at winning this year at home.
“The Guyana Chess Federation was pleased to have chess as one of the events at the IGG 2025. Our athletes trained with the aim of winning the tournament. We were happy to achieve our goals as this was the first time we were able to win. We look forward to retaining this title next year in Suriname.”
GCF President Anand Ragunauth and the winning IGG team display the silverware.
Ragunauth also singled out the Government of Guyana, Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport (MCYS) and the National Sports Commission (NSC) for the strategic roles they played in ensuring the games were hosted here and the support offered to his federation which enabled them to deliver the title.
Guyana placed first ahead of Suriname in the overall standings with French Guiana third. The open tournament saw Guyana taking gold with Suriname silver and French Guiana bronze. In the girl’s segment, Suriname won ahead of Guyana and French Guiana in that order.
Kyle Couchman, CM Sachin Pitamber, Micaiah Enoe, and Alexander Zhang copped gold medals for Guyana in the open category while the silver medals amongst the girls, were snared by WCM Aditi Joshi, Ciel Clement, Maliha Rajkumar, and Italy Ton-Chung.
The Guyana Chess Federation was responsible for ensuring the smooth and fair application of FIDE regulations throughout the competition and their professionalism was instrumental in maintaining the integrity of the games.
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