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AWESOME MONTHLY RAPID CHESS TOURNAMENT (MAIDEN EDITION)
The Chess players of the ancient city of Ibadan were agog on the 10th of July 2021. The event being the Maiden...
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Happy International Women’s Day: Honoring the Chess Queens Worldwide
We honor the incredible skill, toughness, and tactics of our female chess players. Breaking stereotypes in a traditionally male-dominated field, these women...
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Chess G.O.A.T. Tantrums and Disputed World Championships
Four days ago, Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen faced controversy at the World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships in New York due...
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‘Queen of chess’ says it’s hard to imagine women competing at same level as...
The gender gap in sport may be narrowing, but in the game of chess women may never reach the levels of their...
Chess Tournaments Happening this September 2019!
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These key tournaments in the yearly calendar will keep chess fans entertained during most of September,...
The 2025 Nigeria National Chess Championships Officially Begin
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Outside the Orchid Hotel in Lekki, Lagos, the familiar Lagos traffic held sway, horns...
Marcin Tazbir Wins FIDE Online Cup for Players with Disabilities
The 1st FIDE Online Cup for Players with Disabilities was played on May 21, on Playchess. About 40 players took part and...
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Unibet enters Historic Sponsorship with Chess World Champion Magnus Carlsen
Unibet, Kindred Group’s global sports betting brand, enters a two-year commercial sponsorship with the chess World Champion Magnus Carlsen making Unibet Carlsen’s...
IM Gwaze and WIM Caxita Emerge as Winners of the 2024 Bank Windhoek Namibian...
The 2024 Bank Windhoek Namibian Chess Open recently concluded with Zimbabwean Robert Gwaze and Angola’s Esperanca Caxita taking the top honors. The...
South Africa: Robyn van Niekerk Reveals She’s engaged to Calvin Klaasen.
"A thousand times YES
!!"
FIDE Extends Support: Distributes €15,000 Among Six Chess Veterans
FIDE, the international governing body for chess, recently announced a significant move to support veteran chess players, coaches, promoters, and arbiters. Among...
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Anroux Marais with MRL Chess Club at R4 of the Premier Division
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Egypt Tops the Standings at the Team’s Competition of the African...
Egypt topped the standings at the team's competition of the African Games Chess Championship, undefeated with eight matches won and one match...
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Most chess events come and go quietly with a flyer, a post and a few shares. The usual crowd sees it. There...
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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.
