Announcement

FIDE announced the creation of the Athletes Commission in May, 2020. The commission was meant to be a total of fifteen (15) members, with ten (10) elected members and another…

Young chess players (male and female) in three (3) age categories have been invited to participate in the 2022 World Youth Chess Championships. The age categories include players under the…

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…

From the stables of the BrainiacChess enterprise, comes the tournament that exemplifies professionalism in its truest form. A few junior chess players under the age of twenty (20) have been…

GM Amir Zaibi(2396), Africa’s latest chess Grandmaster, may not partake in the chess World Cup 2021 as scheduled due to a failed Covid PCR test!

Youth player Beghriche Rami Tedjeddine has been officially withdrawn from further participation in the ongoing AIOCC 2021 with immediate effect! The player has been flagged by the organizers as possibly…

A lot of Africans know the Followchess app from following live chess games. We also know of the Analyze This chess app, which is one of the best tools for…

A communique has just been released by the vice president of the African Chess Confederation (ACC), Mr. Bernard Wanjala, stating that the forthcoming Africa online individual chess championship has been…

Over the last few years, since the Arkady Dvorkovic led administration took the reins of fide leadership, it has been one developmental program after another for the African continent, which…

At the beginning of the year, the Africa Chess Confederation released the tournament program for the year 2019, and with a host of these events done and dusted, attention turns…