A famous chess club in a slum of Uganda's capital that became the focus of the Hollywood movie Queen of Katwe is still producing champions - but faces a daily struggle to survive.Run by chess coach ...

By Ifeanyi Abraham, for CNN (CNN) — Nigerian chess champion and child education advocate Tunde Onakoya has broken the record for the longest chess marathon after playing for an extraordinary 60 ...

AXA Mansard Health has offered free health insurance to 100 children from the Chess in Slum community. According to the underwriter, the gesture is to demonstrate its belief that quality ...

Onakoya, who is from Nigeria, aimed to raise $1 million for Chess in Slums Africa — a charity he founded in 2018 that teaches children about the game across the continent — during the marathon.

Sterling Oil Exploration & Energy Production Co. Ltd (SEEPCO) in partnership with Chess in Slum Africa, has organised a ‘Chess Beyond Borders’ event for the children from slums, at Bon Voyage ...

Chess in Slums founder, Tunde Onakoya's bid to play chess for 58-hour and break the Guinness World Record is currently underway. He has enlisted Shawn Martinez, ...

Now, this is amazing. Phiona Mutesi, a 14-year-old girl from the Ugandan slums of Katwe, has been recognized as a chess phenom — and has traveled to Russia to compete in the 2010 Chess Olympiad ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A Nigerian chess champion and child education advocate played chess nonstop for 60 hours in New York City’s Times Square to break the Guinness World Record for the longest ...

By Ifeanyi Abraham, for CNN (CNN) — Nigerian chess champion and child education advocate Tunde Onakoya has broken the record for the longest chess ...

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 ...

Chess in Slums Africa, the charity Onakoya founded in 2018, aims to help educate 1 million children in slum communities across the continent. Onakoya played against Shawn Martinez, a US chess ...