A Nigerian man has set the Guinness World Record for "longest chess marathon" after playing for nearly five straight days. Tunde Onakoya, 29, began his 60-hour chess game in Times Square in New ...

NEW YORK — A Nigerian chess champion and child education advocate has played chess nonstop for 58 hours in New York City’s Times Square to break the Guinness World Record for the longest chess ...

One year after, Onakoya and Martinez have embarked on a 70-hour chess marathon to reclaim the title and set a new world record. The event which began on April 17is taking place in Times Square ...

Nigerian chess master and founder of Chess in Slums Africa, Tunde Onakoya has made history by setting a new Guinness World ... record of 61 hours, 3 minutes, and 34 seconds was set in 2024 by ...

Sweden's Armand Duplantis soared 6.28 metres to break the world pole vault record at the Diamond League event in Stockholm on ...

Gukesh Dommaraju, 18, became the youngest chess world champion when he unseated China's Ding Liren at the FIDE World Chess Championship in Singapore Thursday. The Indian prodigy broke a record set ...

With a dramatic victory Thursday in a deciding match, 18-year-old Gukesh Dommaraju became the youngest person to be crowned chess’s world champion. Dommaraju broke a record set by Russia’s ...

Renowned Nigerian chess player and founder of Chess in Slums Africa, Tunde Onakoya, met with President Bola Tinubu on Monday ...

New Delhi: India's D Gukesh defeated China's Ding Liren in the 14th round to secure the 2024 World Chess Championship title in Singapore on Thursday. With this, the 18-year-old Gukesh became the ...

World Chess champion Magnus Carlsen will no ... Carlsen, who was set to compete in both tournaments in New York City from Dec. 26-28, breached the organization's rules by wearing jeans to the ...

Great Britain's Paralympic champion Benjamin Pritchard set a world record on day one ... The Welshman's new world record of 8:47.88 beat Ukrainian Roman Polianskyi's previous best of 8.50.38.