Taffin Khan

Taffin Khan
Taffin Khan
Country	Guyana
Born	25 August 1992; Georgetown, Guyana
Title	Candidate Master (2016)
FIDE rating	2005 (September 2022)
Peak rating	2019 (June 2022)

Taffin Khan is a Guyanese chess player. He has competed at the Guyana National Chess Championships and is the 2008 junior chess champion of Guyana. He has played matches with players such as Kriskal Persaud, Wendell Meusa, Rashad Phoenixx Hussain, Llambi Pasko, Raymond Song, Filip Pancevski, and Carlos A Juarez Flores. On January 9, 2009, Khan was honoured for his victory in the 2008 national chess championship at a prize giving ceremony at Ramphal House in which he received his trophy from the Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport in Guyana, Frank Anthony. Khan has been described by noted Guyanese chess player and head of the Guyana Chess Federation, Errol Tiwari, as, "a person serious about his games, coming from a family of chess players and may have been the reason why he won 14 games and will be moving on to the senior level for the second tournament".[1]

Khan receiving a chess award from Aneesa Maryam Hussain

References

"Culture Ministry, Chess Federation succeed in development of chess". Guyana Government Information Agency. 10 January 2009. Archived from the original on 5 June 2011. Retrieved 22 January 2009.

External links

Taffin Khan rating card at FIDE
Taffin Khan wins national junior chess crown

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[1] "Culture Ministry, Chess Federation succeed in development of chess". Guyana Government Information Agency. 10 January 2009. Archived from the original on 5 June 2011. Retrieved 22 January 2009.