The new world record for "longest chess marathon" was set in New York City this week when Nigerian chess champion Tunde Onakoya played for 60 hours straight.

NEW YORK — A Nigerian chess champion and child education advocate has played chess nonstop for 58 hours in New York City’s Times Square to break the Guinness World Record for the longest chess ...

Nigerian chess master and founder of the Chess in Slums Africa, Tunde Onakoya, has commenced another attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the longest chess marathon.Gift of Chess, a New ...

Renowned Nigerian chess player and founder of Chess in Slums Africa, Tunde Onakoya, met with President Bola Tinubu on Monday night and presented his ...

Nigerian chess master and founder of Chess in Slums Africa, Tunde Onakoya has made history by setting a new Guinness World Record (GWR) for the longest chess marathon. Onakoya achieved the ...

Nigerians at home and abroad have taken to social media to celebrate chess champion Tunde Onakoya after he set a new Guinness World Record for the longest chess marathon in Times Square, New York.

With a dramatic victory Thursday in a deciding match, 18-year-old Gukesh Dommaraju became the youngest person to be crowned chess’s world champion. Dommaraju broke a record set by Russia’s ...

Dommaraju unseated China's Ding Liren to become the new world chess champion. "Every chess player wants to experience this moment, and very few get the chance," Dommaraju said after the match.

Gukesh Dommaraju, 18, became the youngest chess world champion when he unseated China's Ding Liren at the FIDE World Chess Championship in Singapore Thursday. The Indian prodigy broke a record set ...