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Its play in South Africa is of particular interest to chess writers and historians. The board game senet preceded chess and was favored by Ancient Egyptian royalty. [1] Chess is thought to have first made its way to Africa through shatranj. As the Muslim conquest of Persia occurred, the Muslims took and modified chatrang, adopting it as shatraj ...
The open team event at the African Games is the successor of the African Team Chess Championship: the winner of the event gains the right to participate at the next World Team Chess Championship. [1] The African Team Chess Championship was only held twice in Cairo in 1993 and 1997, and Egypt won both times. [2]
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He has also won the National Friends of Chess and the Chevron Chess Open. [10] Onakoya was featured in CNN African Voices. [11] [12] Onakoya is a board member of the New York City-based non-profit The Gift of Chess. [13] On 20 April 2024, Onakoya broke the world chess marathon record in New York, United States. He played for over 60 consecutive ...
Senterej (Amharic: ሰንጠረዥ sänṭäräž), also known as Ethiopian chess, is a regional chess variant, the form of chess traditionally played in Ethiopia and Eritrea. It was the last popular survival of shatranj. According to Richard Pankhurst, the game became extinct sometime after the Italian invasion of Ethiopia in the 1930s.
Amon Simutowe (born January 6, 1982) is a Zambian chess grandmaster.He is the first grandmaster from sub-Saharan Africa [1] and the third black chess grandmaster in history, after Maurice Ashley [2] and Pontus Carlsson. [3]
Category: Chess in Africa by country. 1 language. ... Chess in Zimbabwe (1 C, 1 P) This page was last edited on 26 July 2020, at 20:10 (UTC). Text ...
Chess at the 2023 African Games was held from 9 to 11 March 2024 in Accra, Ghana. [1] Participating nations. This section needs expansion.