PRESS RELEASE – 2014 NATIONAL CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP Kojo Hasford, defended the National Title when he obtained 7½ points out of 9 games played, while Angela Ayiku won the Ladies’ version in the just ended National Chess Championship sponsored by the Kasparov Chess Foundation, Zoobashop, Indomie, Sterling Project Group, Mobius Architecture and Citizen Scratch Ventures. The…
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Philip Ameku, formerly of the University of Ghana Chess Club, clinched his first major win in a national open championship when he obtained 6½ points out of 7, while Angela Ayiku won the ladies’ version in the September 2012 National Open Chess Tournament organised in honour of our founder, Dr Kwame Nkrumah on Founder’s Day….
Ghana presented a team of 5 players for the 40th World Chess Olympiad that took place in Istanbul, Turkey, from 27th August to 10 September and for the first time in the history of the game in Ghana two of the players made the title of Candidate Master. Playing among a strong field of grandmasters,…
The Ghana National Individual Chess Championship 2012 was held at the Accra Sports Stadium-Accra from January 2 to January 7, 2012. The system and rate of play was;7 round swiss,90 minutes per player per game for the first round to select the best six players from twelve. The qualified six then engaged in a 5…
The National Chess League took of successfully on Ghana’s Republic day, friday 1st July,2011 in the morning at the Media Center of the Accra Sports Stadium. Six Teams from The Medical School led Henry Ackun,Dansoman(Micheal Amanor) Stadium Club (Lionel Adu) Team Hasford and Team Busumtwi led by veteran Billy Busumtwi and Team Nii Koney. The…
Ghana will host Liberia in a two round contest at the Accra Sports Stadium on February 19, 2011. The friendly is to serve as a warm up for the two chess federations in the upcoming ECOWAS CHESS COMPETITION . MR. Archie Varmah, spokesperson for the Liberian national chess team, say that liberian are going to…
Once again the debate on who is who in the Kings Indian/Modern defense continue at the end of year open competition at the media center, Ohene Djan stadium ,Accra on December 27,2010. Inform Eddie Nii Thompson crushed his opponents with ease and took away the winning prize. Thompson scored 5 out of 5. The highlight of the…
