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Deborah Richards wins Wheeler Open!
WFM Deborah Richards, Jamaica’s highest-ever rated female chess player, made a winning return to competitive chess by winning the Robert Wheeler Open on tiebreak ahead of NM Peter Myers and Mikhail Solomon. Deborah Richards stumbled in round 3 by losing to NM Russel Porter but recovered by winning in round…
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Caribbean Chess Carnival on tap!
Edison Raphael has been organizing tournaments in Trinidad for more than 20 years. Perhaps his crown achievement had been the GM tournament in 1990. It was the first GM norm tournament in the English-speaking Caribbean. He then organized the memorable Caribbean. During the recent Barbados Heroes Day Cup, both Andy…
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Jamaica’s Elliott annotates key win
Position after Elliott’s 14.Nf5!? Jamaica’s Warren Elliott sent in a nice miniature against fellow FM Bengt Hammar of Sweden. The game came out of a Najdorf where Hammar played the suspect 6…Nbd7. Generally black plays 6…e6 and 7…Qc7 keeping a watchful eye on the e6-square that often becomes the target…
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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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