Barbados womens’ chess team defeat Mauritius at chess Olympiad in Round 4
It was a day of mixed fortunes on day 4 of 2024 Chess Olympiad in Budapest, Hungary for Team Barbados.
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Charles F Broome’s A team wins Primary Interschool Team Chess Championship
Kelvin Daniel
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Charles F Broome Primary School ‘A’ team swept aside all the opponents it faced to emphatically win the 2024 Barbados Interschool Primary Chess championship held at the Wildey Gymnasium earlier in the week.
Justin Parsons wins CB Gilkes Open chess event
Justin Parsons won the recently completed 2024 CB Gilkes Open chess tournament to lead two other qualifiers to the final of the 2024 Open National Chess championships to be held later in the year.
Parsons, the second ranked player in the event, won with 6 points out of a possible 7. Ronaldo Rochester finished in second on 5 points, just ahead of women’s candidate master Hannah Wilson in third on the tie-break. These other two also qualified for the National finals.
The final qualifying spots came down to the last round of the event, where at least 5 players had a chance to capture the three spots. The important final round matchups saw Parsons against Wilson on the top table, Lawrence Depradine had the white pieces against veteran Othneil Harewood on the second board, while Under 13 scholastics champion Aaron Jaikaran battled against Rochester on the third board.
The results saw Rochester defeating Jaikaran, Depradine winning from Harewood and Parsons defeating the current Central American and Caribbean Under 16 champion Wilson. These results saw Parsons, Rochester and Wilson being the ones rewarded with a qualification spot in the National Open finals.
Other final round results saw Noah Clarke defeating Cyprian La Touche, Chanon Reifer-Belle winning from Jerimiah Farley and Alfred Sparman defeating compatriot Ernest King. There were draws between Mileke Sinckler and Savion Little, as well as Allan Herbert and Chaz Reifer-Belle.
With these three latest qualifiers for the national finals, there are only three spots left for the taking.
The next event on the Barbados Chess Federation’s calendar will the return of the Primary Interschool Team chess championship which will be held next week on Monday and Tuesday at the Wildey Gymnasium.
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