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CM Sikhanyiso and Sincobile Emerges as Winners: Highlights from the...
CM Sikhanyiso Sihlongonyane and Sincobile Dlamini emerged as champions in the 2024 Eswatini National Chess Championship, held at Simpa Campus in Matsapha,...
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Rising Star Deborah Quickpen Debuts at the 45th Chess Olympiad in...
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In an inspiring turn of events at the Chess Olympiad, Nigeria’s chess prodigy, 12-year-old Deborah Quickpen,...
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Sunway Sitges Goes Online: Enter Now For 1st Classical Online Swiss
The inaugural Sunway Sitges International Online Chess Open tournament, likely the first-ever classical open tournament played online, will start Friday, April 17...
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February Jesse Nikki To Play in 2021 FIDE World Cup
Do you remember February Jesse Nikki? Jesse won Gold at the recently concluded Women's section of 2021 African Individual Chess Championships in...
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The John Fawole Chess Awards 2019 has come and gone with loads of surprises, fun, games, drama, and
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It has now been two months since I launched my book called My Journey. Thank you to...
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AICC 2021: Schedule and Opening Ceremony Pictorial Impression
The Opening Ceremony of the 2021 African Individual Chess Championships took place on Monday 17th May, 2021 at Golden Peacock Hotel, Lilongwe,...
A Recap: Chess for Freedom Online Conference and Tournament
The FIDE Chess for Freedom Online Conference was held Yesterday May 11, 2021. It was the first event of the Chess for...
“As Long as this Regime is in Iran, I Don’t Have a Chance” ...
Just last month, Shohreh Bayat who is an arbiter for the International Chess Federation feared that she would not be able to return home (Iran)...
You have to be obsessed to succeed: Viswanathan Anand
The five-time world champion talks about his life experiences, the lessons he learnt about leadership from chess, and his forthcoming biography, Mind...
The 2019 World Youth Chess Championship holds for the first time in India
The World Youth Championships 2019 come for the first time in India, and the opening ceremony took place on the 1st of...
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The 2019 Croatia Grand Chess Tour tournament will be the first of two classical events and the second stop on the 2019...
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The 2026 African Individual Chess Championships Women’s Section is underway in Jwaneng, Botswana, bringing together 44 players from across the continent for...
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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.
