Reflections on 2019 Abidjan Rapid & Blitz
Posted in Africa, Cote d'Ivoire, Grand Chess Tour, Media Stories, The Chess Drum, Tournaments on May 22nd, 2019 1 Comment »
Going back to Africa! Before traveling to Francophone (French-speaking) Africa for the first time, I had to brush off my French instruction books from grad school to brush up on vocabulary, cognates, listening, phrases, and passe compose’. I discovered that there were a lot of videos on YouTube and went through a number of them. […]