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GLOBAL CHESS PLAYING RECORD BROKEN

Chess champion plays game for 60 hours straight, breaking global record photo 1

Chess champion plays game for 60 hours straight, breaking global record photo 1

NEW YORK (AP) — A Nigerian chess champion and child
education advocate played chess nonstop for 60 hours in
New York City’s Times Square to break the Guinness World
Record for the longest chess marathon.

Tunde Onakoya, 29, hopes to raise $1 million for children’s
education across Africa through the record attempt that
began on Wednesday.

He had set out to play the royal game for 58 hours but
continued until he reached 60 hours at about 12:40 a.m.
Saturday, surpassing the current chess marathon record
of 56 hours, 9 minutes and 37 seconds, achieved in 2018
by Norwegians Hallvard Haug Flatebø and Sjur Ferkingstad.

The Guinness World Record organization has yet to publicly
comment about Onakoya’s attempt. It sometimes takes weeks
for the organization to confirm any new record.

Tunde Onakoya, center, Nigerian chess champion and child education advocate, plays a chess game in Times Square, Friday, April 19, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Chess champion plays game for 60 hours straight, breaking global record photo 1

Tunde Onakoya, right, a Nigerian chess champion and child education advocate, plays a chess game in Times Square, Friday, April 19, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

                                       King Chess Piece Photograph by Ktsdesign

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U.S. WINS WORLD CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP

Pawn Sacrifice The World Chess Championship 1972 in Reykjavik Bobby Fischer – The match with ...
Bobby Fischer (right) defeated Russian Boris Spassky.

On September 1, 1972, in what’s billed as the “Match of the
Century,” American chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer
defeated Russian Boris Spassky during the World Chess
Championship in Reykjavik, Iceland.

In the world’s most publicized title match ever played, Fischer,
a 29-year-old Brooklynite, became the first American to win
the competition since its inception in 1866. The victory also
marked the first time a non-Russian had won the event in
24 years.

Boris Spassky v Bobby Fischer in play during the 1972 World Chess Championship in Reykjavik ...

History Obsessed - Today In History: Bobby Fischer Became The First American To Win The World ...

The Bobby Fischer Defense | Chess, Garry kasparov, Bobby

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BECOMING A LEADING CHESS GRANDMASTER

8 year-old chess prodigy Samuel Reshevsky defeating several masters at the same time in France, 1920.
An eight-year-old Polish chess prodigy Samuel Reshevsky defeating several masters at the same time in France, 1920. 

 

Reshevsky was an eight-time winner of the US Chess Championship, tying him with Bobby Fischer for the all-time record.

He was an accountant by profession and also a chess writer.

Самуел Решевски – шахматният гений, който срещна призванието си на 4-годишна възраст : Chronicle.bg
Samuel Herman Reshevsky (1911- 1992)

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VET HONORED WITH ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

100-year-old veteran, chess champion honored with lifetime achievement award photo 1

EAST GREENWICH, R.I. (WJAR) — A World War II veteran
was honored Saturday at a chess tournament in East
Greenwich, Rhode Island.

Lou Giarrusso (above) celebrated his 100th birthday at the
Once-in-a-Lifetime Inaugural Championship Cup Event at the
New England Institute of Technology.

Giarrusso started playing in 1963, and he is a Guinness
World Record holder for the oldest chess player to
compete.

Giarrusso was presented with a chessboard birthday 
ake (below), plaques and certificates, and a trophy
for his achievements in chess.

100-year-old veteran, chess champion honored with lifetime achievement award photo 4

100-year-old veteran, chess champion honored with lifetime achievement award photo 3

100-year-old veteran, chess champion honored with lifetime achievement award photo 2

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HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY

today in history

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CAMILLE
BOHANNON

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Irving Berlin
(May 11, 1888 – September 22, 1989)


Irving Berlin was a American composer, songwriter
and lyricist. His music forms a great part of the
Great American Songbook.

He wrote hundreds of songs, many becoming major
hits, which made him famous before he turned thirty.

During his 60-year career he wrote an estimated 1,500
songs, including the scores for 20 original Broadway
shows and 15 original Hollywood films, with his songs
nominated eight times for Academy Awards.

Many songs became popular themes and anthems,
including "Alexander’s Ragtime Band", "Easter Parade",
"
Puttin’ on the Ritz", "Cheek to Cheek", and 
"
White Christmas",


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