Chess Kenya The Kenya Open Chess Championship, which boasts an impressive prize fund of $42,000, has attracted almost 450 players from 22 federations. The tournament ran from April 6-10 ...

Omondi was able to beat both Jumba, a former national champion, and Shakira, a top player from Uganda, which raised suspicions. Chess Kenya president Bernard Wanjala told BBC Sport that a person ...

It was a bold gambit by the 25-year-old Kenyan chess player to disguise himself as a woman to compete in his country's female open chess tournament. Dressed head to toe in a burka and wearing ...

Where there’s a victor, there’s a loser, and sometimes certain athletes contribute to their team’s or their own shortcomings.

Their players have emerged triumphant 15 times in the last 20 editions of the Women’s World Chess Championship, with four-time women’s world champion Hou Yifan crediting their male ...