Over the last weekend Barbados’s top rated active chess player international master Orlando Husbands put in a stellar performance to capture the 2024 national Blitz chess championship when he scored an unblemished 9 wins from 9 games to clinch the title from the two dozen competitors at the Coles Building, Bridgetown.

Justin Parsons defended his Rapid chess championship with a sweep of 7 wins from 7 matches to retain his crown in emphatic fashion over the weekend at the Coles Building on Bay Street in the city.

After four of the seven rounds of the 2024 National Rapid chess championship, defending champion candidate master Justin Parsons is the sole leader with four points.

As the 2024 Barbados National Female chess championship reaches the half-way stage, woman FIDE master Hannah Wilson of Queens College has made a major claim to the title when she defeated the second ranked woman candidate master Chanon Reifer-Belle and also Laura Nicholls in the last two rounds.

Barbados’s women chess team again took honors at the 2024 Chess Olympiad as they won their round 8 match against Malawi 3 – 1.