*Crossville, TN — Orrin Hudson, a chess champion, community activist, and motivational speaker from Stone Mountain, Georgia, has been named the first “Chess Life” cover contest winner. Hudson appears ...

KCB's Hugh Misiko (left) and Chol Mach Nhial shake hands after a Kenya National Chess League match in Kisumu County on May 18, 2025. [Washington Onyango, Standard] School players from 11 African ...

Nigerian chess champion and child education advocate Tunde Onakoya has broken the record for the longest chess marathon after playing for an extraordinary 60 hours nonstop under the bright lights of ...

KwaZulu-Natal chess star Jorah Soojay made history by clinching first place in the under 17 division at the 2025 African Schools Individual Chess Championship and achieved a flawless 9 out of 9 score.

At 12 years old, Iowan Mann has already shown that bold moves can change the course of a game and a future. The Laerskool Westwood learner represented South Africa at the African Youth Chess ...

Jessica Hyatt says she began playing chess for the very first time on a computer game at the age of 3. "It was one of the games that I fell in love with," says Hyatt, who is now a world-renowned ...

Flagship Nigerian Breweries brands, Gulder and Maltina, have jointly added an enormous boost to the ongoing Africa Individual Chess Championships (male and female) in Lagos. The Africa Individual ...

African Games: Bassem Amin leads Egypt to chess supremacy. FIDE Egypt's dominance in the African Games extended to chess, underlining its supremacy. Chess legend Grandmaster Bassem Amin delivered his ...