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…
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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…
Africa Chess Greats: The Time Slovenia Bled
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…
Africa Online Individual Chess Championship 2021- Day 5: Adly and Amina are the Champions
GM Ahmed Adly has won the Open Section at the maiden edition of the Africa Online Individual Chess Championship 2021. With this win, he stands to walk away with the…
Africa Online Individual Chess Championship 2021 – Day 4: Group Leaders Defenestrated
Day 3 tournament leaders Fy, Sabrina, and Marcio Filipe were all defenestrated to be replaced by new faces at the top on Day 4 of the ongoing AOICC 2021! The…
Alleged Cheating at the Africa Online Individual Chess Championship 2021!
Youth player Beghriche Rami Tedjeddine has been officially withdrawn from further participation in the ongoing AIOCC 2021 with immediate effect!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…
Africa Online Individual Chess Championships 2021 – Day 3: Sabrina & Fy Lead The Pack!
Madagascar’s FM Fy Rakotomaharo takes sole lead going into the 4th day of proceedings at the Africa Online Chess Championship 2021 with an unbeaten 5 points, just half a point ahead of the ultra strong GM Ahmed Adly of Egypt. Behind them on shared third spot is the scary trio of Africa’s number one, GM Amin Bassem, Ugandan FM Harold Wanyama and Mozambique’s Donaldo Paiva.
Africa Online Individual Chess Championship 2021 – Day 2: Spears thrown!
In Day 2 of the AIOCC 2021 a Namib desert spear was thrown at the heart of the Eastern star and dimmed his shine! This tournament is proving to be every bit as eventful as it promised to be from the get go! All sections are producing gems and if you mine hard enough you will definitely reap exotic minerals. Welcome to the recap of Rounds 3 and 4 of the maiden Africa Online Individual Chess Championship 2021!
Africa Online Individual Chess Championship 2021 Day 1 – AK47s and Gorilla Nerve Gas in Africa!
It was a shaky but stable start to the maiden edition of the AIOCC 2021 but overall an interesting event nonetheless. With 140 registered participants from all around Africa, not all managed to show up for their games.