Tournaments
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2015 Tanzanian Championships
Nurdin Husein HassujiPhoto Graham Jurgensen (KCFA). Tanzania is a relatively new chess nation better known for Mount Kilimanjaro than its gamesmanship. The east African country joined FIDE in 2014 at the Tromso FIDE Congress and hopes to build a lasting presence in East Africa along with Kenya and Uganda. Tanzania…
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Rochelle Ballantyne on #GirlsCan
Rochelle BallantynePhoto from LinkedIn In conjunction with Cover Girl, there was a beautiful interview done by Soledad O’Brien on Rochelle Ballantyne, a student at Stanford University. She is better known as chess player on the “Brooklyn Castle” fame and a successful student at Brooklyn Tech. Now as a Stanford student…
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2015 Southern Open (Orlando, USA)
Florida is a long state. From Tallahassee to Miami is 7-8 hours drive. Thus, many of the major tournaments are held in the central part of Florida, the state’s tourist capitol of Orlando. The Southern Open took place as the Wyndham International Resort July 24th-26th and attracted a trio of…
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Millionaire Chess blazing hot promotions!!
The second Millionaire Chess Open is less than three months away. Three satellite tournaments have been held in Africa with one slated for St. Louis. Registration has topped 500 with nearly 50 Grandmasters competing for a chance at the $100,000 prize. While the temperature is hitting triple-digits in Las Vegas,…
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Oatlhotse wins Millionaire Satellite in S. Africa!
The Millionaire Chess Satellite tournament had thrills and spills as the tournament crown and spoils went to blitz tiebreaks after a three-way tie in nine rounds of play. IM Johannes Mabusela of South Africa had led through most of the tournament scoring six wins in a row before taking a…
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