Only last week, was the major sports festival concluded in Nigeria, with chess standing as a key sport at the festival. Chess players assembled from across the country to represent …

Many in Nigeria are aware of the lack of over-the-board (OTB) chess tournaments in the country. Along with the boom of Online Chess, which has taken the world by storm …

Last year, we started a series of articles, which are billed to tell the story of each Federation’s setup.
Today, we take a trip down to the Gabonese Chess Federation, where the president, Monsieur Bongo Akanga Ndjila, Barthelemy, talks to us about his federation, their past, the last Olympiad, and their plans for the future.

With the success of the Arab-Africa Online Individual Open Chess Championships (#AAOIOCC) 2021, the closing ceremony was an avenue for the FIDE President, Arkady Dvorkovic to show his support for the initiative and the partnership between the Arab Chess Federation and the African Chess Confederation.

The brilliance of the partnership between the Arab Chess Federation and the African Chess Confederation is seen in the Final. As expected, it was a final to remember. Men from …

Expected fireworks at the Arab-Africa Online Individual Open Chess Championship 2021! The semifinal (Male) and final (Female) of the Arab-Africa Online Individual Chess Championship 2021 produced an amazing evening of …

Preliminary Qualifiers Set to Challenge the Status Quo! The preliminary stage of the Arab-Africa Online Individual Open Chess Championships 2021, kicked off at 4pm GMT yesterday. It was a fierce …

Preliminaries for The Online Championships Kick Off Today! A very interesting turnout has been recorded for the Arab-African Online Individual Open Chess Championship 2021, which is due to kick off …

An association, organized to bring out the best and give the best to its member federations, the Arab Chess Federation is a mother to various chess federations. The federations currently …

We are starting a new series here at Africa Chess Media. We will celebrate great past performances by Africans. For the first edition, we walk through the period when a …