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Parents of Chess champion, Tunde Onakoya, get a house gift

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Chess champion and founder of ‘Chess in Slums Africa’, Tunde Onakoya, finds himself engulfed in emotions as an unnamed good Samaritan graciously gifted a house to his parents. The development is coming on the heels of Tunde’s breaking of the Guinness World Record for the longest chess marathon in New York. Even though the official […]

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Nigerian chess champion, Tunde Onakoya breaks world marathon record, plays game for 60 hours in US

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A Nigerian chess champion and child education advocate played chess nonstop for 60 hours in New York City’s Times Square, United States, 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 […]

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