Kenya Open 2012

Gilruth Scores 6/6 In Eldoret

After more than 10 years without a tournament, Eldoret hosted a tournament over the weekend. peter gilruth scored an amazing 6/6. Read more

Battle For Migingo On Chessbase

Nairobi Chess Club continues to make waves in African chess. In 2009 it organized the first Internet match against the famous Wageningen Chess Club, which had Jan Timman on board one. This year the long awaited match against the Uganda National the match affectionately called “The Battle for Migingo”. Big and sometimes startling report by Kim Bhari. Read More

NSUBUGA IN COMMANDING LEAD

National Junior Chess Champion, Haruna Nsubuga beat Rajab Kamoga in the fourth round of the Olympiad Qualifiers (Second phase) to lead by a full point with 4 points out of 4 games played at Pope Paul Memorial Hotel in Rubaga. Four more games are to be played in the qualifiers to continue on 8th and 10th March 2012 at the same venue. In other fourth round games, Olympian Shadrack Kantinti recovered from an early upset to beat Farouk Fauza and get to 3 points, Vianney Luggya beat Micheal Mawanda, Harold Wanyama beat fellow Olympian Kenneth Kakooza, Stephen Kisuze beat Joe Kaamu as Mathias Ssonko beat Frobisha Katula. After the second phase the top 8 players will be picked to join FIDE Masters Elijah Emojong and Moses Kawuma and Candidate Masters Bob Bibasa and Patrick Kawuma in the last phase to feature a round robin of the top 12 from which four will be picked to join National Champ, Arthur Ssegwanyi on Uganda's team. The team will represent the country at the 40th World Chess Olympiad to be held in Istambul, Turkey. The ladies are not playing in this phase. The leading pack after 4 rounds are as follows: Haruna Nsubuga 4 points Shadrack Kantinti 3 points Rajab Kamoga 3 points Harold Wanyama 3 points Vianney Luggya 3 points Daniel Baagadde 2.5 points Francis Makhombe 2.5 points Stephen Kisuze 2.5 points Farouk Fauza 2.5 points Mathias Ssonko 2.5 points 22 players are taking part in the second phase of the competition. Uganda Chess Federation P.O. Box 2355, Kampala - Uganda. National Council of Sports Headquarters, Lugogo Tel: +256-752-426559 Email: ugandachess@yahoo.com Website: http://uganda.fide.com

Two interesting articles

A history of cheating from chessbase

SANDS: Opposites attack: Great chess rivalry from century ago Washington Times By David R. Sands They were polar opposites at the chessboard and, because of that, produced one of the most intriguing collections of head-to-head battles in the history of the game. Akiba Rubinstein was one of the greatest positional players of the ...