The Clash of Titans 2024: A Chess Challenge Between Prince Adewole Adeyinka vs. Dr...
The month of February brings to you an anticipatory and captivating chess match coming up as two influential figures, Prince Adewole Adeyinka, Vice...
Prince Adewole Adeyinka wins: Recap of the Clash of the Titans
The highly anticipated chess clash between two formidable leaders in the chess community, Prince Adewole Adeyinka and Dr. Apollos Akomaka, that held...
Queens’ Online Chess Festival 2024: A Global Gathering of Women Chess Enthusiasts
FIDE Commission for Women's Chess organised the 4th edition of the upcoming event , "Queens' Online Chess Festival", and according to...
Unleash Your Chess Competence: Chess Heights Organises Monthly Tournaments Across Nigeria
If you have been yearning for intense chess battles to showcase your abilities, ChessHeight is calling all chess enthusiasts in Nigeria to...
Chess Development: Queen’s Gambit Chess Club and Ogbonge Chess Empowerment Initiatives Join Forces
It is exciting that the community of chess is advancing and developing as a chess club named Queen’s Gambit (QGCC) recently formed...
Magnus Carlsen Emerges as the G.O.A.T in the Weissenhaus Freestyle Chess G.O.A.T. Challenge
The Weissenhaus Freestyle Challenge has finally wrapped up with GM Magnus Carlsen finishing victoriously in the first-ever Freestyle Chess G.O.A.T. Challenge which...
Chess Gains Prominence at 13th African Games in Ghana
In a groundbreaking move, chess is set to be featured among 23 sports at the 13th African...
ABUJA OPEN BLITZ CHESS TOURNAMENT 2023
On the 1st of April, 2023, the Zalika Gardens in Area 2, Garki, Abuja, Nigeria, was the venue for an exhilarating chess...
University Of Ibadan Chess Ladder Games: April 2023 Edition
On April 1st, 2023, the UI chess ladder games for April were hosted at the Youth Friendly Centre (YFC). Participants included chess enthusiasts from...
Achieving Excellence In Chess: An Interview with Woman Candidate Master Tega Mandy Enarevba
Woman Candidate Master Tega Mandy Enarevba is a force to be reckoned with in the world of chess. In this interview with...
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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.
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.
