The 2025 Nigeria National Chess Championship deepens as Masters and U2000 bring new fire to the battle
REPORT BY Abah Samuel E
The 2025 Nigeria National Chess Championship entered a fresh and intriguing phase...
Fresh Junior Champions Emerge at the 2025 Nigeria National Chess Championship, While the Battle for...
REPORT BY Abah Samuel E
Day Three inside the playing hall felt like a pressure cooker. This was the day...
Drama and Brilliance Mark Day 2 of the 2025 Nigeria National Chess Championship
REPORT BY Abah Samuel E
The 2025 Nigeria National Chess Championships truly came alive on Day Two, following the...
The 2025 Nigeria National Chess Championships Officially Begin
Report by Abah Samuel E
Outside the Orchid Hotel in Lekki, Lagos, the familiar Lagos traffic held sway, horns...
Nigeria Chess Federation Board Resets as Senator Dankwambo Takes the Lead
In what many have described as a surprise move on the Nigerian chessboard, the Nigeria Chess Federation (NCF) has executed a major...
Deborah Quickpen Joins the League of World Chess Youngstars at 2025 FIDE Rapid and...
From June 10 to 16, the city of London will host the third edition of the FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Team...
The National Sports Festival makes a grand return to the Southwest since 2012!
The National Sports Festival Returns to the Southwest: A Historic Chess Highlight in Ogun 2025
Nigeria’s flagship...
Deborah Quickpen Eyes 2100 ELO Ratings after hitting career high.
Now sitting at 2081, her career-high rating, Deborah Quickpen stands just a few steps away from entering the elite 2100 rating band...
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...
Dr. Rufus Ugorji, Stanley Egbujie, and Abiye Ideriah are Champions at the Battle of...
The much-anticipated 2024 edition of the Battle of Veterans has concluded with remarkable victories by Dr. Rufus Ugorji, Stanley Egbujie, and Abiye...
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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.
