GUYOIL sponsors National Chess Olympiad Team with $100k

The Guyana Oil Company Limited (GUYOIL) has contributed $100,000 to aid Guyana’s FIDE Chess Olympiad Team which is competing at the 44TH FIDE Chess Olympiad from July 28th to August 10th in Chennai, India.

The team consists of the following players: Sasha Shariff, Women’s Champion Pooja Lam, Anaya Lall, Jessica Callender and Nellisha Johnson in the Women’s event, and CM Taffin Khan, FM Anthony Drayton, Ethan Lee, Loris Nathoo and Roberto Neto in the Open event.
Among 187 national teams competing in the Open category, Guyana’s team ranks 152. The Open team is led by Team Captain Davion Mars. Guyana’s Women’s team, led by GM Georg Mohr, ranks at 137 among 162 nations.
The Guyana Chess Federation extends its gratitude to GUYOIL for supporting the team as it endeavours to make Guyana proud in Chennai with aspirations of earning chess titles and increasing Guyana’s international ranking.
GUYOIL is Guyana’s largest petroleum distributor. It is recognised as a market leader in high-quality petroleum products, including Super 95 motor gasoline, Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel, and Castrol lubricants. It also supplies JET A-1 fuel to local and international airlines.
GUYOIL imports, stores and distributes petroleum products in wholesale and retail quantities throughout Guyana. It has a retail distribution network of 56 service stations and industrial storage facilities in all three counties.
The Olympiad team arrived in Chennai on July 27th, ahead of the games.