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With less than a month to the Africa Individual Chess Championships (Open & Women sections), preparations by the Nigeria Chess Federation are ripe, with the federation president, DIG (Rtd) Sani…

It is slowly becoming apparent that the norm chasers in the event are not having an easy time hunting down the grandmasters for their norms. Like hunter gatherers coming home with bloodless spears from an elusive chase and no kills in sight, they seem to be slowly resorting to cannibalism….

“God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made Mothers.” Rudyard Kipling Many decades ago, I was born to make a mark in this world because my Mother dared to…

A Nigerian National Master(NM) , Kolade Onabogun has ensured that lightning struck twice at the 2019 Gibraltar International Chess Festival Master’s Section. Gibraltar is located where the Mediterranean and Atlantic…

Today, African countries participating at the 43rd Olympiad at Batumi, Georgia will resume hostilities after the break they had on Day 7 of the event which was yesterday. The players…

EVENT: FIDE Congress and Elections. VENUE: Batumi Sports Palace, Georgia. DATE: 3rd October, 2018. ARBITER: AFRICA. Taking a leave from the African continent and the continental elections, we take a…

Everyone who plays chess on lichess.org knows that DrDrunkenstein is Grandmaster Magnus Carlsen, whom everyone has seen throwing Berserk in 1+0 Bullet Arena Tournaments and it was very interesting to…

With over a hundred (100) players participating from Zimbabwe, Botswana and Zambia, it was the Zambians that ran riot at the event with Fide Master Luanja Geoffrey and International Master…

Last weekend saw six (6) of Nigeria’s best players battle it out online from the comfort of their homes, and it was one of the most exciting and intense showdown…