Posted in Africa, Botswana on Jan 20th, 2012 10 Comments »
Providence Oatlhotse The stage has been set for the first tournament in the Botswana Chess Calendar. The tournament dubbed Year Opener will take place from 20th-22 January. The tournament presents an opportunity for last year’s winner CM Providence Oatlhotse to defend his title. Oatlhotse had an impressive run in the past year as he won [...]
Posted in Africa, Europe, Italy, South Africa on Jan 18th, 2012 4 Comments »
Posted in Africa, Ghana on Jan 16th, 2012 2 Comments »
Kojo Hasford2012 Ghana Champion The Ghana National Individual Chess Championship 2012 was held at the Accra Sports Stadium-Accra from January 2 to January 7, 2012. The system and rate of play was a 7-round Swiss, 90 minutes per player per game for the first round to select the best six players from twelve. The qualified [...]
Posted in Africa, Nigeria on Dec 8th, 2011 2 Comments »
IM Bunmi Olape won the Nigerian National Championships in November 2011. The tournament was sponsored by Nigerian Breweries PLC and the top section featured a 9-round swiss. Olape won with a tremendous score of 8/9 in a field that included the famous IM Oladapo Adu. He is a regular member of the Nigerian Olympiad Team [...]
Posted in Africa, South Africa on Dec 8th, 2011 No Comments »
International Masters Henry Steel and Watu Kobese both tied for joint 1st at the 2011 South African Closed scoring 9/11! Henry was declared the national champion by virtue of his superior tiebreak beating Kobese in their head-to-head encounter. Below are selected games from the Closed section. Jacques Meintjies won the B section and will be [...]
Posted in Africa, Zambia on Dec 6th, 2011 No Comments »
News out of Zambia ahead of the African Juniors: THE Chess Federation of Zambia (CFZ) has selected 36 young players comprising 18 boys and 18 girls to represent the country at next month’s African youth flagship event of the World Chess Federation in Lusaka. The 2011 African Youth Chess Championships to be held at Baobab [...]
Posted in Africa, Botswana, Tournaments on Dec 1st, 2011 1 Comment »
The Botswana Closed Tournament will be held at University of Botswana starting Friday, 2nd December 2011 to Sunday, 4th December 2011. The drawing of lots will be on Wednesday, 30th at sedibeng @ 19:00. The Botswana Chess Calendar comes to an end with resounding bang as the best chess brains in the country lock horns [...]
Posted in Africa, Botswana on Nov 20th, 2011 2 Comments »
In a tussle that saw the country’s best 20 juniors lock horns, Thato “Kotov” Olebile proved too hot to handle as he dominated the tournament with overwhelming command. The star studded tournament consisted among others CM Thabo Gumpo (former Under 21 champion and National team player), CM Kagiso Morwamang and Botswana’s representatives at the upcoming [...]
Posted in Africa, Zambia on Oct 14th, 2011 3 Comments »
The Chess Federation of Zambia wishes to advise that the 2011 Zambia Closed Chess Championships will be held at the Olympic Youth Development Centre from Saturday, October 22 to Monday, October 24, 2011. In addition to the main event, the Championship section, the tournament will also incorporate youth age group sections for the following ranges: [...]
Posted in Africa, Botswana on Oct 13th, 2011 7 Comments »
Boikhutso Mudongo at 2006 Olympiad in Spain. Photo by Daaim Shabazz. Botswana’s stalwart women player Boikhutso Mudongo is now Women International Master. This follows confirmation from FIDE after her outstanding performance at the Zone 4.3 championships held in Gaborone in April 2011. In a highly contested tournament, Mudongo finished comfortably on position 2 with 7.5 [...]
Posted in Africa, Botswana, Zambia on Oct 3rd, 2011 2 Comments »
International Master Daniel Jere won Botswana International Chess Open convincingly after scoring an impressive eight out of a possible nine rounds. The annual event which took place over the Independence Holidays attracted the strongest chess players from Botswana, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe. IM-elect Daniel Jere of Zambia Jere rebounded from a crushing loss to [...]
Posted in Africa, Tournaments on Sep 10th, 2011 15 Comments »
Despite some technical problems forcing a late start, the All-Africa Games is at the midpoint. There is not much coverage, but there are reports being uploaded to cover the daily events. Zambia vs. South Africa at All-Africa Games.Photos from http://www.chessa.co.za/. The games have attracted one of Africa’s top players in GM Ahmed Adly, but he [...]
Posted in Africa, Ghana on Sep 4th, 2011 No Comments »
This article was posted by Abby Emmanuel Alo for monroi.com. We have all heard of “chess diplomacy”. Alo appears to believe in a new concept of chess for human enlightment. It is not clear from the essay what the plan is but a plan involving the youth must be given some consideration. I contacted him [...]
Posted in Africa, Mozambique, Tournaments on Aug 22nd, 2011 44 Comments »
The 10th All-Africa Games will take place in 2011 in the capitol-city of Maputo, Mozambique. Maputo’s hosting will be only the third time the games will have been held in the southern part of the continent. The 2009 All-Africa Games was held in Algiers, Algeria. The awarding of the games comes after Zambia and Ghana [...]
Posted in Africa, Media Stories on Aug 21st, 2011 No Comments »
The recent cover of New in Chess shows the changing of the guard as both Magnus Carlsen and Sergey Karjakin are featured. The two are the most prominent “prodigies with Carlsen being the top-rated players and Karjakin still the record-holder of making Grandmaster (12 years, 7 months). The new issue has some interesting articles including [...]
Posted in Africa, Zimbabwe on Aug 15th, 2011 28 Comments »
IM Robert Gwaze is not the only Zimbabwean who can win nine games in a row in an important tournament. Rodwell Makoto won the Zimbabwean National Championship with a perfect 9/9. This dominance follows his credible showing at the African Individuals back in June. His strong showing may identify him as a rising talent in [...]
Posted in Africa, Drum Majors, Scholastic, South Africa on Aug 5th, 2011 5 Comments »
Dewain Barber with co-champs Michael Brown & Justus Williams. Photo by Melinda Matthews. Justus Williams shared joint 1st with Michael Brown at the K-8 Championship during the U.S. Open in Orlando. Justus finished on a sparkling 5.5/6 to push his USCF rating to 2265. He beat Cadet champion Arthur Shen in an exciting game. According [...]
Posted in Africa, Egypt on Jul 28th, 2011 7 Comments »
Going into the 2011 World Team Championship, Egypt may have had modest goals against a strong field. What ensued appeared to be disastrous, but the tournament had a high point for Egypt. First, each player on the Egyptian team would face Grandmasters (GMs) every single round. It is rare that players from Africa have an [...]
Posted in Africa, Kenya on Jul 24th, 2011 5 Comments »
GM Dmitri Reinderman arrived in Kenya on yesterday to give a chess clinic including lectures and exhibitions. He held a simultaneous exhibition of 35 players and today is holding a blindfold session. It will be the first time a Grandmaster has visited Kenya since Nigel Short’s visit in 2005, but the first training session since [...]
Posted in Armenia, Azerbaijan, China, Egypt, Hungary, India, Israel, Russia, Tournaments, Ukraine, USA on Jul 23rd, 2011 No Comments »
Armenia has garnered great success in the past several years in team play and hope to continue the trend today as the 2011 World Team tournament goes into its final four rounds. The Olympiad champions from 2006 and 2008, Armenia has always had tremendous team chemistry which helps when trust is needed in crucial moments. [...]
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