Sentence:  On talent alone, Hook confesses, he had no right to such a matchup. No, the way Hook describes the Virgin Island <WSD>boardsmen</WSD>, they come off like the chess equivalent of the Jamaican bobsledders who gamed their way into the Olympics (the athletical Olympics, not the chess olympics) by representing a nation that really shouldn't be competing. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A chess player.