Jamaica
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Jamaica launched Int’l Tourney!
“Chess Masters ace off in International Tourney,” Jamaica Observer, Saturday, March 14, 2009. The Magnificent Chess Foundation and the University of the West Indies (UWI) Chess Society will stage the Magnificent Chess UWI Masters Tournament from March 16 to 22. The tournament, which will be rated by the game’s international…
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Jamaica Looking to Future!!
Jamaica’s #1 player FM Warren Elliott has sent out a release announcing two theme tournaments sponsored by Chess Unlimited. The organization, a joint venture between Elliott and FM Jomo Pitterson is designed to improve competition in Jamaica. The concept of this first tournament arose from the need to impove Jamaican’s…
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2008 Cameron Open in Jamaica
The Jamaican Chess Federation will kick on their 2008 FREDERICK CAMERON CHESS OPEN (formerly the XMAS Open) on December 20-21st. Registration extends through December 17th after which there will be assessed an additional fee. Details of the event are given below! For questions contact Peter Myers at chessclarendon@yahoo.com.
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World Chess Beat (December 2008)
Pearl Spring Super-GM Tournament (December 10th-22nd, Nanjing, China) China will host its first super-tournament and strongest ever held on the continent with the Pearl Spring in Nanjing, China. The field will feature world’s top-ranked Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria), Vassily Ivanchuk (Ukraine), Levon Aronian (Armenia), Sergei Movsesian (Slovakia), Peter Svidler (Russia), and…
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Jamaica’s Jomo Pitterson earns FM title!
Jomo Pitterson (Jamaica) Photo by Daaim Shabazz. Jomo Pitterson of Jamaica clinched the FM title after drawing with IM Basheer Al-Qudaimi. He has earned the requisite six points and becomes the third Jamaica player to earn the title after Grantel Gibbs and Warren Elliott who both earned there titles at…
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Zack Ramsay on Caribbean Chess
Zachary Ramsay has launched a relatively-new blog called caribchess.net and recently penned an interesting article about the future of Caribbean chess. With Maurice Ashley arriving in Jamaica yesterday to help train the national team for the Olympiad, there is a since of urgency to move the federation in the right…
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Jamaica hosts Harold Chan Open
Jamaica will host its annual Hale Chan Open in honor of one of the federation’s first members. The tournament, formerly called the Summer Open, was renamed in 2003 in honour of Dr. Harold Chan who was one of the first three individuals to earn the National Master title in 1975.…
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Rowe takes Jamaican Independence Open!
Jamaica’s first Super National Master (SNM) Duane Rowe won the second staging of the Independence Chess Open, which was held at the Rooms on the Beach Hotel in Ocho Rios from August 2 – 3. Rowe took the main event after scoring 5 points from 6 games, while second place…
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2008 Jamaica Chess Championship
The Jamaican Nationals are underway and perhaps the most interesting observation is that none of the top players are playing. The field is missing FM Warren Elliott, Shane Matthews, Duane Rowe, Jomo Pitterson and Russel Porter, all past Olympians and national team members. The field has a mixture of players…
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Jamaica’s 40th Annual Meeting
Dear JCF Members and Supporters: Please be advised that the 40th Annual General Meeting of the Jamaica Chess Federation, will be held at 1.00 p.m. this Saturday, June 14th, 2008 at the Alhambra Inn, 1 Tucker Avenue, Kingston 6 (off Mountain View Avenue – across from the traffic lights by…
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