IM Balogun Oluwafemi and WFM Ogbiyoyo Perpetual Eloho are 2021 Nigeria Chess Champions
The 2021 Nigeria National Chess Championship ended on the 14th Nov 2021 with IM Balogun Oluwafemi and WFM Ogbiyoyo Perpetual Eloho as...
The John Fawole Chess Awards: Date and Venue for 2020 Awards Announced.
We are excited to announce that The John Fawole Chess Awards will be held virtually on the 12th day of December 2020.
Breaking News: The John Fawole Chess Awards to hold 1st November 2019!
The John Fawole Chess award is a Prestigious National Chess Award presented to Nigerian chess players both home and abroad. The key...
A New Era in the History of Chess Technology: Tesla Launches the First Ever...
Technology has indeed gone beyond
what anyone could have imagined. A glance into the history of chess, you would
realize that the idea of...
The John Fawole Chess Awards
The John Fawole Chess award is a prestigious national chess award presented to Nigerian chess players both home and abroad. The key...
2019 Cote d’Ivoire Rapid & Blitz – Recap Day 1
Day 1 RecapThe first leg of 2019 Grand Chess Tour kicked off in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire today. After three rounds of rapid,...
A STRIKING PICTURE OF ZAMBIAM IM GILLIAN BWALYA!
A Striking picture of Zambian IM Gillian Bwalya also known as 'Captain Charlie' at the 2018 Namibia Chess Open that was...
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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.
FIDE Candidates Round 5: Sindarov Stunning, Women’s Race Wide Open
The FIDE Candidates Tournament in Cyprus delivered another action-packed round on Thursday, with decisive results in both the open and women’s sections keeping the field on edge.