Africa Report

Togo, a French-speaking West African nation, could also be called the palm nation, judging by the amount of palm trees in its villages and beaches. Togo shares borders Benin Republic,…

The date for the submission of candidature has passed, four (4) European tickets scaled through, while only the ticket of Fumey Enyonam Sewa (Noel) was rendered void. This was because…

It is long overdue for an African to take the lead of the International Chess Federation (FIDE), which is the world governing body for chess. Since the creation of FIDE…

Four (4) years ago, the fairest and most interesting Africa Chess Confederation (ACC) elections were held in Batumi, Georgia. Three candidates were going for the position of leadership during the…

A few of the zonal chess championships have come and gone, with champions emerging from various African zones (zone 4.1, zone 4.2, and zone 4.5). Owing to the fact that…

GM Nigel Short is the winner of the GM/IM norm section of the Moja Chess Extravaganza 2022! The event was…

“Parodi, in turn, also failed to convert the still relatively complicated position and after queen exchanges on move 35 it went into rigors mortis.
The players continued to flog the dead horse position, with the occasional involuntary twitches, until an astounding 113 moves were played! No doubt GM Short thought his opponent would inadvertently make a fatal mistake but Parodi was up to the task…

“Acho could not sit back and watch the game play itself so he shook things up and went 29… Bxg4?!, setting his afro hair on fire and running after the opponent to light them up! It almost worked…”

In the first really important result of this section FM Daniel Barrish managed to hold grandmaster opposition after…

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….