Month: May 2020
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The Chess Drum
“Clutch Chess” features America’s top brass in online battle!
For Immediate Release Clutch Chess!New Online Tournament May 26-29 Top Four American Grandmasters Will Compete For A $100,000 Prize Fund SAINT LOUIS, May 13, 2020 – The top four American chess superstars are set to battle online from Tuesday, May 26 – Friday, May 29, 2020 in a brand new…
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The Chess Drum
Pan-African Chess thrives in 2020!
Without a doubt, there is a lot of online activity during the global crisis and it is creating energy in places that were rather isolated. Particularly in the African Diaspora, there has been a fire ignited with a number of cage matches and activity on lichess.org and broadcast on streaming…
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The Chess Drum
Ghana Chess on GBC News during COVID-19
Interview with chess personalities Philip Ameku and Joe Ditse on GBC News in Ghana
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Africa
Senegalese chess forging ahead during COVID-19 crisis
Since 2016, Senegal has been riding the chess wave of momentum seen on the African continent. Francophone Africa has been making quite a bit of inroads in countries where draughts has a more prominent following. The Federation Senegalaise des Echecs or “FESEC” is currently led by Mr. Amadou Lamine Cissé…
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