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Barbados players have found the going tough so far in the 2023 Heroes Day Chess tournament being played over this Heroes Day weekend at the Coles Building, Bay Street, Bridgetown In the top master’s section, local boys international master Orlando Husbands and FIDE master Martyn Del Castilho are battling in a field which include four grandmasters Neuris Delgado(Paraguay), Cristhian Rios(Colombia) and

International master Orlando Husbands continued to add to his recent accolades when he captured the Blitz Chess Championship in dramatic fashion over the last weekend. Blitz chess is a fast form of chess played where each player has three minutes with a 30 second increment from move one for each player and is akin to T20 cricket. Husbands had to hold off

International master Orlando Husbands is the 2022 Rapid Online Chess champion after some forceful play over the two days of the last weekend. The event was played on the Tornelo platform with a time control of 15 minutes with 10 second increment for each player. In a tough field, which included Barbados’s top chess players like Fide masters Martyn Del Castilho and Justin Blackman and past

Barbados will face tough opposition in the opening round of the 44th FIDE Chess Olympiad which pushes off in Chennai, India on Friday. The Open team, which is seeded at 124 out of 188 teams, will come up against 31st ranked Sweden, while