MMG sponsors National Under-14 Rapid Chess Championships 2023

Moving swiftly ahead with the youth tournament schedule, the Guyana Chess Federation is poised to host the National Under-14 Chess Championships.
This year’s edition of the one-day event is set for February 25, 2023 at Queen’s College from 09:00h and is being sponsored by MMG – Mobile Money Guyana.
Players will compete for seven rounds under a time control of 20 minutes per player, with 5 seconds added to the clock after each move in the Open or Girls’ tournaments.

Reigning Under-14 and Under-16 Open Chess Champion, 13-year-old Kyle Couchman returns to defend his title after a year of impressive feats across multiple tournaments and opponents of wide-ranging ages and skill levels.

Up-and-coming star junior players, the Zhang brothers Alexander and Nicholas; Mahir Rajkumar; Arysh Raghunauth; Jeremy Cole; Jacob McDonald; Arush Ramnarine; Micaiah Enoe; Vivek Persaud; Mayas Khan; the Mohabir brothers, Julian and Landon and nine-year-old Aquilani Swaminadha, who is the current Under-12 Open Chess Champion, will all challenge him for the title. A number of these players also performed well in the recently-concluded Under-12 tournament.
The Girls’ Tournament is set to be fiercely contested as well with strong young players such as 2022 Girls’ Under-12 Champion Ciel Clement and Kataleya Sam, who won the Under-12 Girls’ Chess Championship recently. Atalya John, Amelia Griffith, Chelsea Harrison, and Skyler Gurchuran are among those competing on Saturday.
However, they will come up against 13-year-old Anaya Lall, who was the youngest player on the women’s team at the 2022 Biennial Chess Olympiad in Chennai, India. The Olympiad is notably the highest-level tournament Guyanese chess players compete in and includes a rigorous selection process where players show their prowess against the best players across the country.