{"id":25438,"date":"2025-01-16T15:37:19","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T15:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=25438"},"modified":"2025-01-16T15:37:20","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T15:37:20","slug":"presidents-cup-independence-day-chess-tournament-khan-and-joshi-claim-top-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/presidents-cup-independence-day-chess-tournament-khan-and-joshi-claim-top-titles\/","title":{"rendered":"President&#8217;s Cup Independence Day Chess Tournament: Khan and Joshi Claim Top Titles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p><em>By Travis Seymour | December 2024<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Candidate Masters Taffin Khan and Aditi Joshi emerged victorious at the one-day President\u2019s Cup Independence Day Chess Tournament, hosted by President Irfaan Ali at the Baridi Benab, State House. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A total of 82 male and female players participated in the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the women\u2019s category, Aditi Joshi, the country&#8217;s newest Woman Candidate Master, claimed the top prize with an impressive 6 points from 6 outright victories. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>National Women\u2019s Champion Jessica Callender finished second with 5\u00bd points after securing five wins and one draw. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WCM Sasha Shariff took third place, also finishing with 5\u00bd points from 5 wins and a draw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the men\u2019s open category, Candidate Master Taffin Khan clinched the top spot, while FIDE Master Anthony Drayton took second place. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former National Junior Champion Saeed Ali secured third place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Irfaan Ali congratulated the players for their dedication to the game. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He reassured them of his government\u2019s commitment to supporting the expansion of chess across the country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The President announced the government\u2019s plan to purchase additional chess sets for players nationwide and challenged the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) to organize a regional tournament in the coming weeks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also pledged another 500 chess sets for players in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Travis Seymour | December 2024 Candidate Masters Taffin Khan and Aditi Joshi emerged victorious at the one-day President\u2019s Cup Independence Day Chess Tournament, hosted by President Irfaan Ali at&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":25421,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350,352],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25439,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25438\/revisions\/25439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}