The Chess Players Society of Nigeria

The February 2008 edition of the friends of chess took place on the 16th of February at the lafiaji community centre with a total of 57 taking part. The breakdown being 19 masters, 5 ladies and 33 opens players. 9 of the players were first time participants with Dr. Bimbo Ogunnowo being the most notable; […]

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[Event “XXV SuperGM”]
[Site “Morelia/Linares MEX/ESP”]
[Date “2008.02.20″]
[Round “5″]
[White “Topalov,V”]
[Black “Carlsen,M”]
[Result “0-1″]
[WhiteElo “2780″]
[BlackElo “2733″]
[EventDate “2008.02.15″]
[ECO “B04″]

1. e4 Nf6 2. e5 Nd5 3. d4 d6 4. Nf3 dxe5 5. Nxe5 c6 6. Bd3 Nd7 7. Nxd7 Bxd7
8. O-O g6 9. Nd2 Bg7 10. Nf3 O-O 11. Re1 Bg4 12. c3 c5 13. Be4 cxd4 14.
cxd4 e6 15. Qb3 […]

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The ‘Oil and Gas Workers’ games is taking place right now in Abuja. Even though the Chess event there is closed to staff of companies from the Petroleum Industry (Shell, Total etc…), at least there’s something happening on the Chess scene.
The February 2008 edition of the Friends of Chess tourney comes up this weekend - […]

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Ok guys. Good to see more people are registering on the weblog (blog).
Those already registered, there’s been a little update. It seems the forum is not too easy to navigate through for now, so guys, when you log in here you’ll have links to write posts/articles/whatever on this main page.
So please, feel free to write […]

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