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Nigeria Police Force Zone 2 Chairman’s Chess Championship 28 Dec 2012 | 09:34 pm
Whilst the core Nigeria chess fraternity was focused on the Godswill Akpabio Chess Tournament in the southern city of Uyo, a few enthusiastic thinkers gathered at Police College, Ikeja for the Zone 2 ...
Interview with GM Romain Edouard 15 Dec 2012 | 10:19 pm
In our process of covering ‘Trophy Anatoly Karpov’ tournament, we got in contact with France’s national co-champion: GM Romain Edouard. The relationship resulted into this interview. GM Romain Edouard...
Quarter Final Report of The Ongoing Fide Women’s World Championship 22 Nov 2012 | 08:20 pm
WOW!!! What a mouth-watering quarter final, where 30th seeded IM Anna Ushenina of Ukraine was the first to qualify after beating GM Nadezhda Kosintseva of Russia in the second round of the tournament ...
FIDE GRAND PRIX, TASHKENT, UZBEKISTAN, 2012 21 Nov 2012 | 08:17 pm
Tashkent, also known as the Stone City, is the capital of Uzbekistan. The Tashkent Province plays host to Grandmasters of various calibers, which includes homegrown GM Kasimdzhanov Rustam who is the l...
Fide World Women’s Chess Championship, Khanty Mansiysk, Russia, 2012 20 Nov 2012 | 09:32 pm
The Fide World Women’s Chess Championship, 2012, holds in Khanty-Mansiysk, [which is an oil boom town and the administrative center of Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug and located on the eastern bank of ...
The World Youth Chess Championships Maribor, Slovenia 2012 (Final Ranking after 11 Rounds) 19 Nov 2012 | 06:47 pm
After 11 rounds of exciting chess, the World Youth Chess Championship comes to an end today the 19th of November, 2012, with the closing ceremony. Following the games of these young minds has been wor...
Report on The World Youth Chess Championships Maribor, Slovenia 2012 (After Nine Rounds) 17 Nov 2012 | 06:22 pm
With just two more rounds to go in The World Youth Chess Championship 2012, the under 18 opens as expected is giving some very beautiful chess displays with sensational performances from GM Swiercz Da...
Interview With The Secretary Of The Nigerian Chess Federation – Part Two 16 Nov 2012 | 06:33 pm
Here in is the concluding part of the interview with the NCF Secretary (Mrs. Bidemi Akinola). I hope you will find it quite interesting!! Is NCF a friend of chess players? Answer: We are one Any che...
Interview With The Secretary Of The Nigerian Chess Federation – Part One 15 Nov 2012 | 05:51 pm
With preparation for the National Sports Festival going ripe, Chess Heights deemed it fit to interview one of the most important figures in Nigerian Chess (The Secretary of the Nigerian Chess Federati...
The Lagos 2012 NSF – A Case For The Use Of The FIDE Olympiad Scoring System (TPR) For Awarding Medals In Chess 11 Nov 2012 | 11:17 pm
Several years ago, there was a development at the World Chess Olympiad events that created quite a fair bit of controversy and annoyance, in particular amongst the majority of top ranked chess grandma...
