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From Individual Prodigies to an Ecosystem: Can Africa Build a New Path in World Chess?
Vanguard Nigeria
The World Schools Team Chess Championship will be held near Cape Town from July 6 to 11, 2026. African chess has no shortage of powerful individual stories. Egypt’s Bassem Amin became the first African super-grandmaster to cross the 2700 mark on the FIDE rating list. Zambia’s Amon Simutowe became the first grandmaster from sub-Saharan Africa. […] The post From Individual Prodigies to an Ecosystem: Can Africa Build a New Path in World Chess? appeared first on Vanguard News.
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