Archive for August 24th, 2010

Karpov2010 heads to Africa

Posted in Africa, FIDE on Aug 24th, 2010 No Comments »

As the 2010 campaign for FIDE President winds down, both camps have been competing for votes by jetting from region to region to roll out their platform. Kirsan Ilyumzhinov has already been to Africa trying to win the federation of the region’s federations. Anatoly Karpov will be traveling to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and Luanda, Angola […]

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Uganda set rewrite Olympiad history

Posted in Africa, Olympiad, Uganda on Aug 24th, 2010 No Comments »

The Uganda Chess Federation is for the first time in history set to send a Ladies team of five alongside the Men’s team to participate in this year’s World Olympiad to be held in Khanty Mansiysk, Russia from 19th September to 4th October 2010. Confirmation of Uganda’s participation follows UCF’s successful acquisition of US$10,000 from […]

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