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,...
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
The John Fawole Chess award is a prestigious national chess award presented to Nigerian chess players both home and abroad. The key...
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...
The Man Who Lives And Breathe Chess: Magnus Carlsen, World Chess Champion.
The World Chess Championship (WCC) is played every year to determine the World’s best chess player. Over the years, there have been many great...
The John Fawole Chess Awards: See who made the cut
The John Fawole Chess Awards was hosted on Twitter Spaces on the 22nd of October 2022 at 5:00 PM WAT. The program...
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...
Exclusive Interview with Two-Time Ghana Chess Champion Dr. Kwabena Adu Poku: Insights from a...
The Ghana Chess Championship featured two phases of competition. The first phase was a 7-round tournament held at the Ghana College of...
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.
Nigeria Chess icon Aikhoje Odion receives Gold medal after two decades
The African Individual Chess championship was held in Lagos, Nigeria, on the 17th of September, 2022. Nigeria chess icon Aikhoje Odion would have marked over...
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The 2026 African Women’s Chess Championship: A New Chapter Unfolds in Botswana
The 2026 African Individual Chess Championships Women’s Section is underway in Jwaneng, Botswana, bringing together 44 players from across the continent for...
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.
