Callendar & Shariff earn conditional Women Candidate Master titles
Guyana’s top chess players continue to earn victories at the ongoing FIDE Chess Olympiad in Chennai, India.
Jessica Callender and Sasha Shariff
With only three rounds remaining in the tournament contested by more than 2000 chess players around the world, two players on Guyana’s Women’s team have earned their first titles.
Jessica Callender earned her Conditional WCM title after Round 7 on August 5th while Sasha Shariff earned hers after Round 8 on August 6th. Both players gained 4 wins out of 7 games.
Chess players are bestowed titles by the International Chess Federation (FIDE) based on their performance and are referred to by the titles before their name based on their ratings.
It is a metric of a chess player’s rank. The WCM title will be added to their names once they achieve rating points over 1800.
These titles have been earned for life and cannot be lost. Sasha Shariff is currently rated 1183 and Jessica is rated at 1295.C.
