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Reflections 4 on Steinitz Open The opening ceremony speech by Steinitz President Andrew Talmarkes:

Reflections on Mitchell’s Plain Chess Club by Dr Lyndon Bouah

Over the last few years, various chess clubs have been staging events across Cape Town. In this year Steinitz and Crossroads chess...

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Over the last two weeks, a flurry of chess activity took place in the Western Cape. Over the weekend of 2 March...

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Reading is something that I greatly enjoy. My parents instilled a love for reading at an early age. I clearly recall being...

A Reflection on the Women’s Chess Event in Western Cape, South-Africa by Dr Lyndon...

Dr Lyndon Bouah’s reflections on women’s chess event, Western Cape, South-Africa. Since my last article about women's chess several women's...

A Reflection on the Second Quarter Chess Season in Western Cape, South-Africa by Dr...

Dr Lyndon Bouah is the chief director of sport and recreation in the province of the Western Cape, South Africa and below...

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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.