FIDE Youth and Cadet World Cup: Lam, Primus are latest winners

After six rounds of the International Chess Federation’s (FIDE’s) Youth and Cadet World Cup, the Guyana Under-14s have found it tough to maintain mental strength to string together wins, with Pooja Lam and Emanuel Primus scoring one win each.

In the most recent slew of matches, Saint Stanislaus College’s Italy Ton-Chung gained a walkover victory, while Naila Rahaman and Mahilia Rajkumar, both students of Queen’s College, gained byes.
Saraswati Vidya Niketan (SVN) school’s Pooja Lam, playing the black pieces in round three against Trinidad and Tobago’s Aradhana Ramnarine Singh, held her nerve to pull off a determined win.

The other win for the Guyanese Under-14 team came from School of the Nations student Emanuel Primus. The lone male in the Under-14 category to represent Guyana, Primus was down in his game when his opponent gave him a glimmer of hope, to which he latched on to win his game after a series of checks and his opponent running out of time.
This international online tournament is utilising the 10-round Swiss format, and could see the top players gaining entry to Fide’s FIDE Online Rapid Super Final 2021 and the FIDE Online Rapid Grand Prix Series 2021.