Chess and the Nigerian Child: Challenges & Prospects

The spiced chicken was sizzling tasty making the ice cool drink even more refreshing. I looked up from my quiet revelry to take in my surrounding but soon bent again to my fried rice meal as if oblivious to life. If you are thinking this was a party, you are wrong. It was the final round of the Under 20 National Chess Championship sponsored by Agusto & Co. at the splendid Muson Center. Read More

Not Yet Uhuru

A calendar. Without it, we do not have a real plan for events, and as such, tournaments just stumble on us and we take a Fire Brigade approach (which is not peculiar to chess anyway). If we do have a chess calendar, we’d be able to prepare adequately for tournaments. It’s not going to be an easy task to build a calendar, of course, but, with determination. Read Article

Time Trouble

I recall watching a fierce Sicilian game at the 2003 NBL championships in Lagos .It was between two players in the opens 1 category. I had earlier walked past the board an hour before and it seemed to me as if the player with the Black pieces was meditating in a monastery. The way he was haunched over the board like a praying mantis caught my attention... Read Article

Desperate Measures

Your ability to keep your nerve while under intense pressure is the first step in saving your life. This is the true character of a warrior! As you absorb the pressure mounted by your opponent, as your king runs frantically from checks, as your major officers try not to be captured by a minor pieces (or worse still, taken for free), you have too keep thinking of how to deflect your opponents attack... Read Article

Chess & Acadamics

“Academic failure” should not ordinarily be attributed to chess, but it is quite possible that a lot of chess players in, Nigeria, would have done better in school if they weren't that involved in the game although it is also true that some of them could and would have found something else to take their time if they weren’t chess players. Where there is enough evidence ... Read Article

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