Wilson lands top 30 finish at FIDE Online Rapid World Cup

Hannah Wilson landed a top 30 finish in her age-group to emerge as the standout player for Barbados at the FIDE Online Rapid World Cup Cadets and Youth Chess Championships.

Wilson scored six and a half out of a maximum ten points to finish 29^th out of 155 competitors in the Under-12 Girls’ section when the selection stage of the global event concluded on Friday.

The performance by Wilson also landed her the best finish among the English-speaking Caribbean in the division and the fourth highest among the Americas region.

Fellow Barbadian Chanon Reifer-Belle, who also competed in the Under-12 Girls’ category, ended with four and a half points to finish 97^th.

Barbados fielded 11 competitors in the event that attracted more than 1 600 participants from 100 countries and three other players  – Louis Wilson, Gaybrianna Moore and Rory Prescod – scored four points.

Wilson played in the Under-18 Open section while Moore in the Under-18 Girls’ division. Prescod was the best of the four Barbadians in the Under-14 Open category in which compatriots Melvin Terence scored three points and Keon Lashley and Taariq Callender both got two points.

In the Under-10 Open division, Aaron Jaikaran finished with three points and Alexander Berry two and a half points, while Christian Mayers ended with two points in the Under-12 Open section.

Some of the players turned their attention to the local scene with the start of the Philip Corbin Open – National Championship 2^nd Qualifier on Saturday. The event runs over five successive days at the Coles Building on Bay Street in Bridgetown.

There will be more international competition for local players when Division 3 of the FIDE Online Olympiad is contested from next Friday until Sunday. (BCF)