Meusa Summer Chess camp kicks off today
National chess champion Wendell Meusa Chess will be staging a Summer Camp from today until August 3 at the American University for Peace Studies, at Lot 135 Sheriff & Fourth Street, Campbellville.
According to a release, players will be introduced to the ancient game through teachings of the history of chess, the board and its pieces, algebraic notation (chess language) and the basic principles of play.
Tactics, strategies, middle game planning and endgame techniques will be taught to established and aspiring chess players.
Intensive training sessions will be offered to help deepen the understanding of the game and sessions will build on game skills and techniques thus covering a more advanced idea.
Advanced courses will see instructors providing daily lessons, puzzles, and play to help guide students through each session. The camp will provide opportunities to practice these skills in a variety of activities and workshops with classmates under the observation of our Chess Instructors.
Participants will be training from the FIDE TRG 2018 Syllabus and Russia Training Manual.
The Wendell Meusa Chess Foundation is an educational organization committed to the promotion and development of chess in Guyana, aiming ultimately to make chess an integral part of our every life, the release stated.
The sport of chess is known as valuable enhancement educational sport that helps teach young mind important lessons such as problem solving, critical thinking, planning, assessing, calculating, management, psychology, emotional intelligence, sportsmanship, patience and goal setting and is fun.
A limited number of kids under the age of 10 years old will be given a free beginners course during the camp.
Interesting persons can call 231 -1284 or 664 - 0124 for more information. The Berbice Cricket Board (BCB), through outspoken President Hilbert Forster, is calling out Cricket West Indies (CWI) as well as the Guyana Cricket Board over their selection policies.
In an invited comment, Forster said that “the BCB is disappointed that [Veerasammy] Permaul is not selected by West Indies.”
This, he noted was clearly a matter of not selecting on merit since Permaul finished the CWI Regional Four-Day tournament as the leading wicket taker and by virtue of this, coupled with consistent performances over the years should have merited his selection in the West Indies senior team.
Surprisingly, the left arm spinner has not been included in three teams currently selected by CWI namely, West Indies, West Indies A and West Indies B nor was he selected for the CWI President’s XI which played a warm up match against Bangladesh.
The BCB president stated that it was puzzling that the leading wicket taker could not make three teams and argued that dominance does not seem to merit selection in the West Indies.
Permaul is not the only one to feel the blunt of the choices.
Shimron Hetmyer, fresh off a century in the warm up match against Bangladesh, was relegated to 12th man while Devon Smith, who totaled 91 runs in six innings, was named in the playing XI alongside Miquel Cummins who took three wickets in total from six innings.
Another Guyanese in all-rounder Keemo Paul who was plucked from the West Indies A team, also ended up doing Registration forms can be uplifted from the American University of Peace Studies, Oasis Cafe and The National Sports Commission. water boy duties.
Foster was critical of the GCB as well, stating that it was hypocritical of them to call out CWI for their selection policy while they practice the same thing.
The BCB head stated that they are “also a little worried about the junior cricketers who are not given equal opportunities as other counties.
“We [Berbice] have dominated the GCB Inter-County competition but only four players from Berbice were selected, as a matter of fact only three from the Under-17 tournament were selected with Leon Swamy coming into the side from the Under-19 tournament.”
According to Foster, “three players out of the 14-man squad coming from Berbice means that we are the worse and that is not true.” He stressed that the BCB is investing heavily in the youth players and indicated that just as the GCB is calling on CWI, BCB is calling on GCB to make fair decisions since it is unfair for the youngsters, or anyone to be treated like that.