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“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….

It was a bittersweet Day 4 for many of the chess players and attendees of the Moja Chess Extravaganza 2022 as the…

Day 3 of the Moja Chess Extravaganza 2022 was a rollercoaster of events, drama and emotion. When we play chess it is sometimes easy to forget…

The second day of the Moja Chess Extravaganza 2022 even did not let up in action and excitement. Grandmaster meet and greet Since the playing venue for the grandmasters is…

It was a highly eventful start to the Moja Chess Extravaganza with participants flooding in from at least 7 countries!

All roads are headed for Kimberly in the Northern Cape province of South Africa for the Moja Chess Extravaganza 2022 where…

I met Susan at the Batumi Chess Olympiad in 2018. She had just been elected as president of the Malawi Chess Association, CHESSAM. She had grit and said her mind,…