Former Street Boy Wins Junior Category Of The Southwest National Chess Tournament
The ecstatic sound of the popular DJ YK skit ; " opoor fun warisi. Wa wa Warisi" rends the ambiance...
Recap of the Southwest National Chess Tournament
The maiden edition of the southwest national tournament held at Osogbo, Osun State, Nigeria was a fantastic tournament and one to reminisce...
My Visit to Phezulu In Durban
Good day family and friends.
Last week I had an opportunity to visit Phezulu in Durban, situated at the...
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...
In Loving Memory of Edwin Wyngaard
Tribute to Mr Edwin Wyngaard
I first met Edwin in 1991 when I entered UWC as a young man...
IM Balogun Oluwafemi and WFM Ogbiyoyo Perpetual Eloho are 2021 Nigeria Chess Champions
The 2021 Nigeria National Chess Championship ended on the 14th Nov 2021 with IM Balogun Oluwafemi and WFM Ogbiyoyo Perpetual Eloho as...
Bayelsa State Governor, His Excellency—Douye Diri Awards scholarship to Africa U-10 Chess Champion Deborah...
The Bayelsa State Governor, His Excellency—Douye Diri Awards scholarship to African U-10 Chess Champion—Deborah Quickpen; Designate her Youth Ambassador for Education.
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....
Up Close and Personal with Tris-Ann Richards
The president of the St Lucia chess federation TRIS-ANN Richards was interviewed by Adesewa Oyewole for a BruvsChess Media series “Up, Close...
FIDE Binance Business Schools Super Cup 2021: Shri Ram College of Commerce India Wins!
The FIDE Binance Business Schools Super Cup 2021 kicked off on the 9th of July through 11th of July 2021. The event...
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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.
