Welcome to the home of the
Barbados Chess Federation Inc. (The Federation), a non-profit organisation
established for the promotion of chess in Barbados. List
of Office Bearers 2007-8..
Calendar 2008 ...
Constitution...
Selection Criteria 2007...
Check out the latest
(APR 2008) FIDE Ratings for
Barbados, T&T and Jamaica..
The 2008 Sagicor Open Junior Chess
Championships will be held at NUPW Headquarters, Barbados
between 11th August and 17th August 2008. Please email
the completed Registration Form to
pvdawson_pvdawson@yahoo.com
Details ...
Registration Form ...
BOA National Championships:
The 2nd Qualifier is
being played at the Harrison College from 5th July to 19th
July 2008.
Results |
Date |
Day |
Time |
Round 1 |
5
July |
Saturday |
4:00 PM |
Round 2 |
7
July |
Monday |
6:30 PM |
Round 3 |
9
July |
Wednesday |
6:30 PM |
Round 4 |
11
July |
Friday |
6:30 PM |
Round 5 |
12
July |
Saturday |
4:00 PM |
Round 6 |
14
July |
Monday |
6:30 PM |
Round 7 |
18
July |
Friday |
6:30 PM |
Round 8 |
19
July |
Saturday |
4:00 PM |
Round 9 |
21 Jul |
Monday |
6:30 Pm |
Standings.. Games.. |
Cross Table |
XIX
Pan-American Youth Chess Championships
Villa Carlos Paz, Cordoba,
Argentina
June 29th -
July 6th 2008
Peru, with
six Gold, three Silver and three Bronze medals, were crowned
Pan-American Youth Champions when the curtains came down at
the XIX Pan-American Youth Chess Championships played in
Villa Carlos Paz, Cordoba, Argentina.
For the
English Speaking Caribbean Justin Blackman of Barbados and
Javanna Smith of Trinidad and Tobago ended with wins against
Edgar Ceron of Colombia and Gabriela Lima Gainzarain of
Uruguay respectively. Blackman, seeded 30th
in the Boys Under-18, finished 31st with 4 points
and based on the ratings of the players he played should
earn 5 FIDE rating points. Smith, who is unrated and seeded
34th in the Girls Under-12, placed 22nd
with 4 ½ points. Unfortunately, having only played 3 FIDE
Rated players, she will need to wait a while longer to
qualify for her FIDE rating. Details...
Olympic
Day 2008 will be celebrated on Sunday, 29 June, 2008 at
Police Sports Club, Weymouth, Roebuck Street, St. Michael
from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Thirty (30) members,
including family and friends, are needed to register to
participate in the day's activities. The team should
include 10 females and 10 juniors (under 13). This number
will start us off with 10 points! Participants would be
given a t-shirt and are asked to make a $5.00 contribution
towards lunch.
Come enjoy a fun-filled day! Lots of prizes to be won!
Contact
Ms. Hetty Wilson via email at
rad_ran@hotmail.com or Mr. Rohan Waithe at
rohanwaithe@hotmail.com
for further details
Subzonal
2.3.5 men
Martyn Del Castilho and Justin
Blackman are competing in the subzonal which is being played
at Meridan, Venezuela.
RESULTS...
2008 Junior Nationals (U20)
Under 20 Junior Nationals - 20, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 June
2008 at Harrison College.
The U20 championship will
be decided by playoff in view of the 4 way tie between Alex
Jackman, Akeem Cox, Corrine Howard, and Wendell Meusa
The 2008 Junior Nationals
will be played at Harrison college.
Registration can be done by downloading the form and
forwarding it to Ms. Hetty Wilson via email at
rad_ran@hotmail.com or Mr. Rohan Waithe at
rohanwaithe@hotmail.com. Late Registration
closes 30 minutes before the scheduled start of first round.
Default time is 30 minutes after the scheduled start.
Fees: Barbados Chess
Federation membership fee of $10.00 and registration fee of
$10.00.
Click Here for
the schedule..
Jr Nationals Results...
Results U20
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Overall Champions: The Lodge School.
The Barbados Chess Federation Inc. is inviting you to
attend the United Insurance Inter-School Team Chess
Championships Prize-Giving Ceremony at the L.V. Harcourt
Lewis Training Centre, Barbados Public Workers’ Co-operative
Credit Union Ltd, Belmont Road, St. Michael on Sunday,
22 June 2008 at 4:00 p.m.
Guest Speaker will be the Honourable Ronald Jones, Minister
of Education.
All players are kindly asked to attend in full school
uniform and to be seated no later than 3.30 p.m.
2008 Junior Nationals (U10 & U12)
The Junior Nationals (U10 & U12) was played on 17th and
24th May 2008. Asha Chadderton wins the U10 section
and Rohansonn Waithe wins the U12 section.
RESULTS U10
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RESULTS
U12...
HEROES DAY CUP
Celebrating our Heroes in Chess
Bridgetown, Barbados
April 26th - May 1st, 2008
Robert Chase, Marketing
Manager of Digicel sponsors for the Heroes Day Cup Masters
Section making the Ceremonial 1st Move for
Digicel RBTT Heroes Day Cup opening match between
Grandmasters Keith Arkel, England, and Julio Becerra, USA.
Grandmaster Julio Becerra of the
USA brought the curtains down on the 2008 Digicel RBTT
Heroes Day Cup with a commanding performance, "washing off"
Barbados National Champion FIDE Master Delisle Warner and
Swedish FIDE Master Bengt Hammar, to finish unbeaten on 8.5
points and take the 2008 Digicel Masters Cup. Becerra,
who is originally from Cuba, was clearly in a class of his
own and his display over the last week will certainly
provide much material for local coaches to use with their
charges.
Second in the Digicel Masters
goes to English Grandmaster Keith Arkell who ended on 7.5
points. Arkell, from whose table most of the tournament's
hardest and longest fought matches originated, ended his
Heroes Day Cup with wins against two of Barbados' finest
FIDE Master Dr. Philip Corbin and National Champion Delisle
Warner.
STANDINGS DIGICEL MASTERS....
CROSS TABLE DIGICEL MASTERS...
American wins Digicel Masters Cup..
Published in the
Nation News Paper on: 5/4/08
Uribe inches closer to title..
Published in the
Nation News Paper on: 5/2/08.
Othneil Harewood (right) 2008
RBTT Heroes Day Candidate Cup Winners receiving his prize
cheque from Barbados Chess Federation President Peter Dawson
Othneil Harewood tops the RBTT
Candidates Standing with 7 ½ points followed, on the better
tie break score, by top local Junior and Lester Vaughn
student Alex Jackman on 6 ½ points. Faulks finished the
tournament as the top placed overseas participant with 6 ½
points and 3rd place, thanks to a final round win
against former Barbados Under-20 Champion Wendell Muesa.
STANDINGS RBTT CANDIDATES...
CROSS TABLE RBTT CANDIDATES...
2008 Junior Nationals (U14 & U 16)
Daryl Headley
of Coleridge & Parry (CP) is the Barbados under 16
champion and Katrina Blackman
of CP is top placed girl in the championship, 3rd place
overall.
Lawerence Depradine of The Lodge School
is the new Barbados
Under 14 Champion and Mia Mascoll of Harrison College the
top placed girl in the Championships, 4th place
overall.
The 2008 Junior Nationals
will be played at Harrison college.
Registration can be done by downloading the form and
forwarding it to Ms. Hetty Wilson via email at
rad_ran@hotmail.com or Mr. Rohan Waithe at
rohanwaithe@hotmail.com. Late Registration
closes 30 minutes before the scheduled start of first round.
Default time is 30 minutes after the scheduled start.
Fees: Barbados Chess
Federation membership fee of $10.00 and registration fee of
$10.00.
Click Here for
the schedule..
Registration Form...
Results...
The Barbados Chess Federation Inc. has successfully
completed the 2008 United Insurance
Inter-School Team Chess Championship. This
tournament was played on
March 1st, 8th, 15th at
the Harrison College. The Lodge School A-TEAM completed yet
another clean sweep by winning all the three divisions in
secondary school section. St. Judes team emerged
victorius in the primary school section.
Details ...
FM Warner, IM
Denny, GM Maurice
Ashley, FM Farley, and FM Dr Corbin
GM Maurice Ashley,
first African American to earn
an International Grandmaster Chess title, visited Barbados
during February 2008. On 19th February, 2008 at 7 PM
he delivered an inspiring oration at
LV Harcourt Lewis Training Centre,
Barbados Public Workers’ Co-operative Credit Union Ltd.,
Belmont Road, St. Michael.
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Be Inspired! The Road to the “Grandmastership”!
**
On 20th February,
2008, at 1:00 PM, GM Ashley
played
simultaneous Exhibition at the Lodge School against 27
students from the secondary schools which participate
regularly at the United Insurance Inter-School Chess
Championships. This match signaled the start of the
2008 United Inter-School tournament. The Occasion was
graced by
the Honourable Dr.
Esther Byer-Suckoo, Minister of Family, Youth Affairs,
Sports, Barbados, Mr. Erskine King, Director Sports Council
and Mr Andy Toppin, Director United Insurance.
PHOTO GALLERY...
Chessgames Biography of GM Ashley
BOA National Championships:
The First Qualifier
for 2008 will start on 2nd February at 4 PM at Harrison
College.
Registration
Form ... The chief Arbiter is FA Kelvin Daniel & the
assistant arbiter is Mr. Dirk Austin.
Check out the latest
(JAN 2008) FIDE Ratings for
Barbados, T&T and Jamaica.. The Barbados FIDE rated
list touches 30 mark thanks to the various rating
tournaments organised by BCF and Heroes Day cup organisers.
IA Rohan Waithe needs to be commended for his active role.
Mr. Peter Dawson had obtained the FIDE Arbiter title
at the recently concluded FIDE congress in Turkey.
Barbados’
'13
– 15' team captures top
spot in Miami
A contingent of Barbadian youth recently
returned from the 10th Annual Junior Ornage Bowl
International Chess Tournament held at the Embassy Suites
Hotel in Miami, Florida. Competing against juniors from
China, Ecuador, Jamaica, Panama, Russia and Trinidad and
Tobago and the USA.
Barbados won the 13 –15 Division with a total
of 15 points.
Report...
Standings...
Michael Forde Memorial
Tournament Details
Barbados is
being represented only for the second time in its history
at the
World Youth Chess championship, being played in
City of Antalya,
Turkey between the 17th and 29th November 2007
organised by
Turkish Chess Federation. The Championships
got under way on Sunday 18th November 2007 and comprise 1500
Chess players from 103 countries including Russia, United
States, Canada and India. The championships are divided into
under 8 years, under 10, under 12, under 14, under 16 and
under 18 years old, it also has the same age categories for
girls only. Barbados is represented in the under 14
section by Alex “Wonder boy” Jackman of The Lester
Vaughan School, Justin Blackman of Queens College
in the under 16 section and Martyn Del Castilho of
The Lodge School, in the Under 18 section.
Report 1...
Report 2...
Report 3 ...
Round 4...
Round 5...
Round 6&7...
Round 8...
Final Report...
Bajans fight gallantly in round five at World Youth chess
championships
Web
Posted - Barbados Advocate -Mon Nov 26 2007
Bajans bounce back in round three at World Youth Chess
championships
Web Posted
-Barbados Advocate -Thu Nov 22 2007
Bajans announce their arrival at World Chess Games in Turkey
Web
Posted - Barbados Advocate - Wed Nov 21 2007
2007 Barbados
Team Championships
The team championship will be held at Harrison College on
17th and 24th November, 2007 at 4:00 PM. FA Kelvin
Daniel will be the chief Arbiter. there will be four
rounds on 17th and three on 24th. Four players and a
reserve make up a team. Registration fee is $40.00
per team. BCF membership fees should also be up to date and
paid.
Bridgetown
Chess Bonanza
will be held on
Saturday, 27th October 2007 at Jubilee Gardens, Bridgetown
from 9 AM to 4 PM. All, chess players and fans, are
invited to participate in a fun filled day of events.
Aceworx Steel Pan & Wind Ensemble
will
provide entertainment from 3 PM.
PHOTOS...
Chess Bonanza in Bridgetown
Web Posted -
Barbados Advocate - Sun Oct 28 2007
BOA CGI
Ladies Championships:
Corinne Howard wins the Ladies Nationals for 2007
BOA National Championships- CGI Finals
FM Delisle Warner wins the
2007 National Championship after a tense play off against
Martyn Del Castilho. Having drawn the first two rounds
2-2 Mr. Warner wins the title in a Blitz play off.
Warner and Del Castilho lead nationals
Web Posted - The
Barbados Advocate - Oct 04 2007
Warner, del Castilho leaders at chess
- The Nation
Newspaper - Oct 04 2007
Venue: Bridge House, Bridgetown |
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NAME |
Rating |
Rating |
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2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
10 |
11 |
TOTAL |
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W12 |
W2 |
B3 |
W4 |
B5 |
W6 |
B7 |
W8 |
B9 |
W10 |
B11 |
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1 |
Warner, Delisle |
2263 |
2238 |
1 |
1 |
½ |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
½ |
½ |
1 |
½ |
9 |
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W11 |
B1 |
W12 |
W3 |
B4 |
W5 |
B6 |
W7 |
B8 |
W9 |
B10 |
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2 |
Blackman, Justin |
1922 |
1509 |
½ |
0 |
1 |
½ |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
6 |
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W10 |
B11 |
W1 |
B2 |
W12 |
W4 |
B5 |
W6 |
B7 |
W8 |
B9 |
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3 |
Farley, Terry |
2294 |
2109 |
1 |
½ |
½ |
½ |
½ |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
8 |
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W9 |
B10 |
W11 |
B1 |
W2 |
B3 |
W12 |
W5 |
B6 |
W7 |
B8 |
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Castillo, Roberto |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
½ |
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0 |
3½ |
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W8 |
B9 |
W10 |
B11 |
W1 |
B2 |
W3 |
B4 |
W12 |
W6 |
B7 |
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Ifill, Cleveston |
0 |
1549 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
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