Posted in Africa, All-Africa Games, Media Stories, The Chess Drum on Aug 25th, 2019 1 Comment »
There are not enough superlatives to describe the organization of the 12th All-Africa Games thus far. Mehul Gohil of Kenya gave the event full marks and sent loads of photos showing the excellent conditions. “Maputo in 2011 was wonderful. This is even better,” he said. Of course, what would a first-hand experience be without any […]
Posted in Africa, All-Africa Games, The Chess Drum on Aug 24th, 2019 18 Comments »
The 12th All-Africa Games started in Morocco on the 19th of August with the Opening Ceremonies. The quadrennial games will be held in several cities and feature 301 events in 26 sports. All fifty-four nations are participating. The official site gives some history. First organized in 1965 in Brazzaville, the 12th African Games will take […]
Posted in Africa, Cote d'Ivoire, Media Stories, Scholastic, The Chess Drum on Jul 23rd, 2019 1 Comment »
CHARLES LORNGCEO and Director, MiniChess (Cote d’Ivoire) Cote d’Ivoire is still basking in the glory of holding the successful Grand Chess Tour event held in early May where 10 of the world’s top players visited Abidjan for the Rapid and Blitz tournament. In less than a week, Paris will host a similar event, but it […]
Posted in Africa, Drum Majors, Egypt, Media Stories, The Chess Drum, Tournaments, Tunisia on Jul 18th, 2019 2 Comments »
In what has become somewhat of a tradition on the continent of Africa, the Egyptian’s major haul in continental championships continued in Hammamet, Tunisia. The Republic of Egypt took five of the six medals in the Open and Women’s African Individual Championships over the past week and cemented their status as the African Lion. From […]
Posted in Africa, Drum Majors, Media Stories, The Chess Drum, Tournaments, Tunisia on Jul 17th, 2019 2 Comments »
OPEN Ahmed Adly wins the 2019 African Individual Championship!Bassem Amin takes the silver… El-Gindy bronze! There were a lot of combinations in terms of the medal race, but in the end, everyone knew an Egyptian Grandmaster would be on the gold medal stand. The question was, “Would it be Adly or Amin?” GM Ahmed Adly […]
Posted in Africa, Drum Majors, Media Stories, The Chess Drum, Tournaments, Tunisia on Jul 17th, 2019 2 Comments »
Round #8:Shrook Wafa wins the 2019 African Women’s Championship!! Shrook Wafa is the 2019 African Women’s champion! In what has been a truly dominating performance, the 22-year old Egyptian wins her 3rd continental title winning consecutively in 2013 and 2014. Mabrouk! Photo courtesy of Babatunde Ogunsiku (Africa Chess Media) WOMEN It appears that the Egyptians […]
Posted in Africa, Drum Majors, Media Stories, The Chess Drum, Tournaments, Tunisia on Jul 16th, 2019 No Comments »
Round #7:Adly storms into the lead… Rakotomaharo upsets Bellahcene, moves in joint 2nd with Amin…Shrook held, Latreche closes gap OPEN There is no odds-on favorite to win the 2019 edition of the African Individual Championship. The story of the day has to be the young IM from Madagascar Fy Rakotomaharo who stands as one of […]
Posted in Africa, Drum Majors, Media Stories, The Chess Drum, Tournaments, Tunisia on Jul 15th, 2019 No Comments »
Round #6:Amin on a roll, crushes Fawzy… Adly back in the huntShrook devastating field, 6/6 OPEN Another exciting round of chess. Three of the top seeds are back on course and are sitting atop the field with 5/6. The situation may favor Ahmed Adly since he has already played three of the top seeds. He […]
Posted in Africa, Drum Majors, Media Stories, The Chess Drum, Tournaments, Tunisia on Jul 14th, 2019 No Comments »
Round #5:Amin beats Adly moves back into joint first… Shrook Wafa on 5/5 OPEN GM Hesham Abdelrahman has exited the tournament after five rounds. The 2016 African Champion suffered three losses and one can only imagine that something is not well with the Egyptian player. Takaedza Chipanga of Zimbabwe also exited the tournament after forfeiting […]
Posted in Africa, Drum Majors, Media Stories, The Chess Drum, Tournaments, Tunisia on Jul 13th, 2019 No Comments »
Round #4:Adly and Shrook win… both lead the field on 4/4 OPEN Tunisia is sizzling right now. It is not the heat of the weather, but it is the action at Hotel Caribbean. After the top seed went down yesterday, the player who beat lost to Ahmed Adly leaving him with the only perfect score. […]
Posted in Africa, Drum Majors, Media Stories, The Chess Drum, Tournaments, Tunisia on Jul 12th, 2019 No Comments »
Round #3:Tournament heats up… top seed Bassem Amin goes down! OPEN It was “Fire on Board” at the 2019 African Championships as the top two boards saw titanic struggles lead to decisive results. Amin-Ballahcene and Hamdouchi-Adly represented three different generations of chess. GM Bassem Amin battling upstart GM Bilel BallahcenePhoto by Tunisian Chess Federation Last […]
Posted in Africa, Drum Majors, Media Stories, The Chess Drum, Tournaments, Tunisia on Jul 11th, 2019 No Comments »
Round #2:Tense battles in Open Section… Lorita Mwango breaks through! OPEN One of the truths about African chess is you never really know how strong a player from the continent is. The idea that Africans play in so few international tournaments is lost on the fact that the continent is awash is talent. In more […]
Posted in Africa, Drum Majors, Media Stories, The Chess Drum, Tournaments, Tunisia on Jul 10th, 2019 No Comments »
Round #1: Tournament starts off with a few nicks Venue for the 2019 African Individual Chess Championships OPEN In general the top seeds prevailed… except for one result. IM Rodwell Makoto got a taste of home cooking with a loss to an unheralded Tunisian Jmila Omar. Nevertheless, it is a long tournament and it is […]
Posted in Africa, Media Stories, The Chess Drum, Tournaments, Tunisia on Jul 10th, 2019 14 Comments »
This has been an outstanding year for African chess thus far. With successful subzonals held, new zone format and the groundbreaking Grand Chess Tour held in Abidjan, there is hope that this just may be the “African Century.” The momentum continues in Tunis, Tunisia where the 2019 African Individual is being held. It is the […]
Posted in Africa, Cote d'Ivoire, Grand Chess Tour, Media Stories, The Chess Drum, Tournaments on May 22nd, 2019 No Comments »
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. […]
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