Abuja Number One Blitz Chess Showpiece: Yinalanah Humphrey Triumphs
Pureheart Irikefe reports from Abuja, Nigeria
In Abuja, Nigeria, several chess players of varied strength have accorded themselves the...
New Year Opener: Ezeanya, Ojikutu, Bello and Suraj triumphs at Kaduna State Chess Festival...
In collaboration with Kaduna state chess players, the Kaduna state chess association organized the maiden edition of the Kaduna state Chess Festival....
Dahnypro U-20 chess tour 2021 finale: Oluwatobiloba captured Lagos, Okeke emerges overall tour winner
The DanhyPro Chess Academy has blazed the trail for junior chess in Nigeria.
Ile-Ife—RRCC Olojo Festival Rapid Chess Tournament: Chess, Culture, and Tradition.
The Olojo Festival is a festival popularly celebrated in Ile- Ife by the Ooni of Ife and his subjects across Yoruba land....
Junior Chess continues to flourish in Nigeria as Brainiac Chess delivers yet another world...
The year 2021 has been an exciting one for juniors in Nigeria. In the last 9 months, I...
Nigerian Chess Federation Qualifiers For 2021 African Youth Chess Championship.
The 2021 African Chess Championship is coming up in Accra, Ghana from 17-26 September 2021. The Nigerian Chess Federation is taking extra...
2021 Team Nigeria Online Olympiad Report
The 2021 FIDE Online Chess Olympiad kicked off on the 20th of August 2021 and is set to last until the 15th...
Waris John Muftau: the 12-year-old underprivileged boy who wants to become an engineer and...
Many of us are familiar with the phrase: "Talent is universal, but opportunity is not"—the term coined by Rye Barcott in his...
Ogosi Raphael goes Unbeaten at the 2nd Danhypro Invitational
Ogosi Rapheal-Mary wins the 1st prize at the 2nd Danhypro invitational, but the juniors gave though fights!
2nd Danhypro Invitational Chess Tournament; Events so far
Continuing on her mission to develop Junior chess in Nigeria, the Danhypro Chess Academy kicked off her second edition of the DANHYPRO...
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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...
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.
