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Tunde Onakoya vs. Deborah Quickpen Chess Match: UK-Based Real Estate Company...
Chess has always been a spectator game, it took a grand Exhibition to demonstrate that in Lagos Nigeria on the 11th of...
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Reflections on GM Kenny Solomon by Dr Lyndon Bouah
In November 2019 Grandmaster Kenny Solomon followed a long tradition of holding a chess lecture when he paid a private visit to...
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Gukesh Dommaraju emerges as the Youngest Winner in the 2024 FIDE...
As the FIDE Candidates chess tournament in Toronto ends, Gukesh Dommaraju, at just 17 years old, makes history by becoming the youngest...
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The 2019 Croatia Grand Chess Tour Daily Recap: Round 11
Round 11 Recap
Magnus Carlsen won the Croatia Grand Chess Tour with a score 8/11 after a final round...
Roppongi Lounge Presents: A One Day Chess Tournament in Lagos Nigeria
Guess what is coming to Festac town Lagos Nigeria!
It's the Roppongi Lounge chess tournament!
Roppongi Lounge presents a One...
Reflections Final – Steinitz Open by Dr Lyndon Bouah
The Steinitz
Open organised to celebrate the 42nd anniversary of the club ended this
afternoon in a great victory...
CM Skhanyiso Persivaal, Temahlubi Dlamini Queen are Eswatini 2020/2021 National Chess Champions
The National Chess Championship which was supposed to be played in December last year in Manzini was postponed to April this year...
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I Might Never Have Become a Chess Grandmaster if I’d Stuck to Women-Only Tournaments-...
Judit Polgár is a Hungarian chess grandmaster and was the highest-ranking female player until her retirement in 2014. Below is her...
Liberia Includes Chess Teaching Into School Programs
The Liberia Chess Federation, (LCF), was accredited by FIDE only in 2016. Last year this young Federation participated in its debut Chess...
The Russian Chess Grandmaster Aleksandra Goryachkina Wins Women’s Candidates.
FIDE Women's Candidates is an 8-player double round-robin held in Kazan, Russia from May 31 - June 18, 2019.
The Chess Week with Coach Obinna: Celebration of FIDE 100th Year and the International...
The highly anticipated "Chess Week with Coach Obinna" event has come to a close, leaving an indelible mark on the lives of...
Chessboxing Kicks Off in France
Chessboxing has spread to France. The hybrid sport which combines alternating rounds of blitz chess and boxing has been popular in London...
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When The Prison Banned Board Games, We Played Chess In Our...
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Not too long ago my mother told me about how chess has...
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Wadim Rosenstein Didn’t Just Announce a Chess Event. He Made the World Look.
Most chess events come and go quietly with a flyer, a post and a few shares. The usual crowd sees it. There...
An End of an Era as Dasaolu Olurotimi Steps Back from National Friends of...
For many years, Dashe has been one of the familiar names in Nigerian chess organization. Through Friends of Chess, and later National Friends of Chess, he built a platform that gave players across different parts of Nigeria the chance to compete. Now, with NFOC 2026 titled An End of an Era, he is stepping away from that role.
Nigerian Chess Community Mourns the Loss of Sandif Samson, Rising Star from Gombe State
The Nigerian chess community mourns the loss of Sandif Samson, a FIDE-registered chess player from Gombe State who tragically lost his life in a road accident while on his way to write his Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). A student leader, competitor, and rising talent gone too soon.
