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PICTORIAL: Tunde Onakoya begins 70-hour chess marathon in New York to reclaim world record
One year after, Onakoya and Martinez have embarked on a 70-hour chess marathon to reclaim the title and set a new world record. The event which began on April 17is taking place in Times Square ...
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Chess: Carlsen sets historic record with 9 out of 9 at Grenke Open
Magnus Carlsen, the world number one, soared to a new landmark in chess history yesterday when ... of 11 “picket fence” in the 1963-64 US Championship or Fabiano Caruana’s seven straight ...
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Tunde Onakoya sets new chess marathon record, awaits confirmation from GWR
Nigerian chess master and founder of Chess in Slums Africa, Tunde Onakoya has made history by setting a new Guinness World ... record of 61 hours, 3 minutes, and 34 seconds was set in 2024 by ...
The Punch Newspapers27d
PICTORIAL: Tunde Onakoya reclaims world record in 64-hour chess marathon
Nigerian chess master and founder of Chess in Slums, Tunde Onakoya, alongside his U.S. counterpart, Shawn Martinez, has officially set a new Guinness World Record for the longest chess marathon of ...
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Sets for the World Chess Championship cost $500. Here's why.
You can pick up a plastic set for $20, but a wooden set certified for the World Chess Championship costs $500. Much of the value of a high-quality set comes down to how well just one piece is made ...
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Nigerian chess champion Tunde Onakoya plays the royal game for 60 hours — a new global chess record
He had set out to play the ... organization to confirm any new record. Onakoya played against Shawn Martinez, an American chess champion, in line with Guinness World Record guidelines that any ...
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The 18-year-old Indian who's the new world chess champion
The previous record-holder for the youngest chess world champion was Russian grandmaster Garry Kasparov. He was 22 when he won in 1985 - a time when Russia and the former Soviet Union dominated ...
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World Chess Championship 2024: D Gukesh creates history! Becomes the youngest world champion, breaks Kasparov's record
New Delhi: India's D Gukesh defeated China's Ding Liren in the 14th round to secure the 2024 World Chess Championship title in Singapore on Thursday. With this, the 18-year-old Gukesh became the ...
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Hailed by Kapil Dev and world chess champion Koneru Humpy, SOGF Grandmasters Series sets new benchmarks in Mind Sports
New Delhi [India], May 1 (ANI): The Skillhub Online Games Federation (SOGF) Grandmasters Series Championship concluded in Gurugram late Wednesday evening at an electrifying closing ceremony graced ...
Daily Post Nigeria27d
Tunde Onakoya breaks Chess World Record, aims for 70-hour milestone [PHOTOS]
Nigerian chess master and founder of Chess in Slums Africa, Tunde Onakoya, has officially broken the Guinness World Record for ... beating the 2018 record set by Norwegians Hallvard Haug Flatebø ...
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Chess giants, reigning world champion Gukesh Dommaraju coming to Esports Stadium Arlington
Headlining the event is a match between five-time U.S. Champion and widely popular chess streamer American grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura and the reigning world chess ... its sights set on reaching ...