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Africa
Dapo Adu dominates Africa’s Zone 4.4 Championships
IM Oladapo Adu The Ghana Chess Association, under the auspices of the African Chess Confederation and the World Chess Federation held 2016 Zone 4.4 Individual Chess Championships in Accra from 28th March to the 6th April 2016 at Tenko Plaza Hotel. Thirty-two players from the following seven federations were represented:…
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Africa
Purity Maina awarded International Arbiter title!
Purity Maina Kenya’s Purity Maina receive her credentials as an International Arbiter (IA) during the FIDE Presidential Board meeting held in Moscow, Russia! Maina would be familiar to some on the African continent and she has appeared on these pages before, but it is quite an outstanding achievement. She would…
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Caribbean
Jamaica’s mourns chess pioneer Dr. Hope Anderson
JAMAICA CHESS FEDERATION TRIBUTE TO DR. HOPE ARTHURINE ANDERSON 2 June 1950 – 24 March 2016 It is an indisputable fact that Jamaica is one of the greatest countries in the world with accomplishments in various spheres of endeavour ranging from, inter alia, the arts, music, the sciences and sports.…
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Drum Majors
Maurice Ashley formally inducted into U.S. Hall of Fame!
Maurice Ashley has been a fixture in American chess for three decades. Born in 1966 in St. Andrew, Jamaica, Ashley’s story is well known to the chess public. However, he has become a household name in how he has represented chess in these years. What makes Ashley unique is his…
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Africa
“Queen of Katwe” is coming!
Lupita Nyong’o speaks at a Disney promotion for the movie.Back in 2014, an announcement was made that Lupita Nyong’o, would be playing Phiona Mutesi in an adaptation of the book, “Queen of Katwe.” Nyong’o won an Academy Award for her stunning portrayal of Patsey in “12 Years as a Slave.”…
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Media Stories
New ‘Toiletgate’ Cheating Accusation Refuted
Chess has been rife with cheating episodes due to the accessibility of powerful chess engines on palm-sized cell phones. One of the highest profile cheating accusations took place during the 2006 World Championship Chess Match between Vladimir Kramnik and Veselin Topalov. It was thought by the Topalov camp that Kramnik’s…
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FIDE
Will Karjakin dethrone Carlsen?
Last year, Anish Giri wrote a book titled, “After Magnus: Who can detrone the World Chess Champion?” In this slender book, he gave profiles of 10 players whom he thought could possibly unseat Magnus Carlsen. There was one omission… not himself of course, but Sergey Karjakin! Perhaps many overlooked the…
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Media Stories
MC#3 Registration now open!!
The time is here! Millionaire Chess has opened registration and mere hours after opening, there were 13 signings. Millionaire Chess VIP Jones Murphy was was the very first registrant followed closely by Robert Beatty. The first Grandmasters to sign up were Ioan Cristian Chirila (Romania) and Niclas Huschenbeth (Germany). Last…
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FIDE
Homestretch at 2016 Candidates!
An epic finale’ is brewing in Moscow at the 2016 Candidates Tournament. Both Sergey Karjakin and Fabiano Caruana are gripped in a tense tie for 1st place and are scheduled to meet in the last round of the tournament. At this point Karjakin has the better tiebreak based on his…
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Media Stories
Chess and March Madness
Chess and Basketball have quite a few things in common in the month of March. There are important tournaments going on in both sports which will determine a path to a championshp. America’s basketball “March Madness” features 64 teams in four brackets of 16 colleges and universities. Chess has a…
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