National junior champion Kyle Couchman and Woman Candidate Master Aditi Joshi will lead Guyana’s 17-player contingent at the XXXVI Pan American Youth Chess Festival in Medellín, Colombia.
The festival, which brings together players in the Open and Girls’ Under-8 to Under-18 divisions, will run from July 26 to August 2. The internationally rated standard competition is scheduled for July 27 to August 1.
Couchman enters as Guyana’s highest-rated player with a rating of 1962, while Joshi is rated 1745. They are joined among the rated players by Alexander Zhang at 1634, Alek Ubaldo-Singh at 1582, Aiden Tinnie at 1510, Amaya Sharma at 1479, Vir Narine at 1452 and Abel Fernandez Ciria at 1412.
Completing the Guyanese contingent are Mark Defreitas, Jeremiah Jacobs, Jordon Jacobs, Emma John, Rebha Lachhman, Divya Persaud, Pranav Suman, Sanjay Suman and Arian Tinnie. Those nine players are currently listed without international ratings.
The competition will consist of nine rounds using the Swiss system at the Guillermo Gaviria Correa Combat Coliseum. The time control will give each player 90 minutes, along with a 30-second increment after every move.
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