Posted in Africa, FIDE, The Chess Drum, Togo, Tournaments on Nov 16th, 2017 No Comments »
2017 African Junior Chess Championships(Lome, Togo) Togo delegation at the General Assembly in Istanbul, Turkey. Photo by Daaim Shabazz. Togo is a small French-speaking West African nation of 7.6 million and a budding chess nation. The nation has been a member of FIDE since being welcomed at the 2012 FIDE Congress in Istanbul, Turkey. In […]
Posted in Africa, Algeria, Angola, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central Republic of Africa, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, FIDE, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritius, Media Stories, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Olympiad, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe on Sep 1st, 2016 12 Comments »
Today the 2016 Olympiad games will officially open with the Opening Ceremonies with 181 teams representing 176 countries. Many of these countries represent the best that each country has to offer. Within the last decade that generally meant a permanent balance of power tilting to Western Europe and North America. With the emergence of Asian […]
Posted in Africa, Algeria, Angola, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Drum Majors, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Tournaments, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe on Jan 19th, 2016 4 Comments »
African continental President Lewis Ncube and African Chess Confederation the has released the chess calendar for the 2016 year. It encompasses all the major events, but may include others that have yet to be posted. A number of young federations are being thrust into organizing events in order to get them needed experience for growing […]
Posted in Africa, Angola, Botswana, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Drum Majors, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Media Stories, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe on Dec 30th, 2015 2 Comments »
After the contentious Presidential election of the World Chess Federation (known as FIDE) in 2014 featuring incumbent President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov and former World Champion Garry Kasparov, the future of the African continent was in serious question. Little had been done in past decades to provide the continent with firm footing to develop consistent programs. Ethiopian […]
Posted in Africa, Cameroon, FIDE, Togo on Feb 26th, 2014 1 Comment »
Two candidates for FIDE President have been criss-crossing the continent of Africa vying for critical votes in a continent that is often fractured and does not always vote as a bloc. Seems like a common ritual every four years when the election campaign heats up. The current FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov took a tour of […]
Posted in Africa, Togo on Feb 22nd, 2013 1 Comment »
Togo delegation at the General Assembly in Istanbul, Turkey. Photo by Daaim Shabazz. Togo is a very modest country of 6.7 million sandwiched between Ghana and Benin. It is a country known primarily for it cocoa, but they are now known for something else… a budding chess community. I met two of the members from […]
