FIDE is hiring!
Chess International Body, FIDE, announced new job openings for her new office in Lusanne.
A tweet from FIDE twitter...
Cheating in Chess: A history
Cheating in chess.
Every now and then, we all run into someone who doesn’t have official FIDE rating, plays...
Bobby Fischer – The Legend Lives
New American Chess Magazine #12 pays due tribute to
the legacy of Bobby Fischer due to the 50th anniversary of the publication of My
60...
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 10 Most Important Moments in Chess History
There is arguably no other game with the timeless staying power
and global reach of chess. Unlike most of the other games and sports
played...
SCHOLASTIC CHESS OPPORTUNITY AT UNIVERSITY OF ABUJA
University of Abuja Sports Unit in collaboration with BruvsChess Academy, wishes to announce that there are openings for all prospective Undergraduate and...
Chess and Mental Illness: 12 Chess Player Who Suffered From Severe Mental Problems
“Chess doesn’t drive people mad – in fact, it
keeps mad people sane”
Bill Hartston
A couple...
2019 ZAMBIA OPEN: IM RICHY WINS ‘VALLEY OF KINGS’ CHESS TOURNAMENT
Whilst football aficionados were glued to their Televisions watching Nikita Paris and Megan Rapinoe dazzling for their countries at the 2019 FIFA...
The 9th PRESIDENT’S CUP CHESS CHAMPIONSHIPS GHANA
The 9th PRESIDENT’S CUP CHESS CHAMPIONSHIPS begins on the 5th July – 7th July 2019 at Accra Sports Stadium, Accra, Ghana. For...
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...
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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.
