2021 Nigeria Chess Champion—IM Balogun Oluwafemi gives his thoughts about the ongoing World Chess...
The ongoing world chess championship entered the fourth game today with the expected draw result as Magnus Carlsen played with the white...
Victory Chronicles: Awesome Aanuoluwapo’s Path to the Northumberland Masters U-1700 Championship Title
Over the course of the Christmas holiday, BruvsChess Founder FM Fawole John Oyeyemi caught up with Awesome John Aanuoluwapo, who recently claimed...
Checkmate: IM Olape Bunmi Proposes!
Just a few days after winning the Mind Games Premier Championship which held in Lagos Nigeria, IM Olape Bunmi increases the celebration...
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...
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....
ARE NIGERIANS NOT SMART ENOUGH TO BE CHESS GRANDMASTERS?
Are Nigerians not smart enough to be chess Grandmasters?
Eluekezie Chukwuwikeh writes from Abuja, Nigeria
Abdulrahman Abdulraheem Akintoye and Toritsemuwa Ofowino Crowned 2025 Zone 4.2 Chess Champions in Lagos
The 2025 Zone 4.2 West Africa Chess Championship in Lagos delivered an exciting finish in both the Open and Women’ssections. Fans witnessed clutch final-round...
Nigerian Chess Player Ajibade Olayemi Olarov Welcomes a Beautiful Baby Boy
There are so many things that bring joy and celebration but nothing can be compared to the joy of having a newborn...
Nigerian Chess Community Wishes The Ores a Happy Married Life!
Marriage is more than just a union between a man and a woman. It is a beginning of a new life, it...
Michael Adams and Jovanka Houska are the 2019 British Chess Champions!
The 2019 British
Chess Championships started on the 26th July and came to an end on the 4th
August 2019. The winners for this...
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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.
