All Africa Games Chess Results. (ROUND ONE)

Nigerian chess coach Lekan adeyemi With Libyan Chess Federation President and a Former Arican Chess Union President and FIDE Vice President,Nizar Elhaj

Team Nigeria Started the All Africa Games chess event on a very good note , The Male team defeated Madagascar by a margin of 3 points to 1 , while the Female chess team defeated Kenya by a perfect score of 4 points to 0 in Round one of the All African Games chess event.

Going by the Swiss system , team Nigeria must be prepared to meet tougher opponents as the event progresses . The Events continues tomorrow.

Summary of the scores at the round one of the chess event.

Nigeria 3 Madagascar 1 (Male)

Nigeria 4 Kenya 0 (Female )

Charles Campbell and Adebayo Adegboyega won on Board one and two respectively while Benjamin Omorere and and IM Bunmi Olape were held to a draw by the die hard Madagascans

The female team comprised of Doris Adebayo, Olufunmilayo Akinola, Rosmary Amadasun and Tobi Olatunji from board 1 to 4 respectively.

Nigerian men's chess team will be up against Algeria in what promises to be an interesting showdown in round two of the event while the Female team will be slugging it out against South Africa who earlier lost 1.5 - 2.5 to Botswana.

Round 1

EGYPT 3.5 ZIMBABWE 0.5

SOUTH AFRICA 4 ETHIOPIA 0

NIGERIA 3 MADAGASCAR 1

ANGOLA 3.5 KENYA 0.5

ZAMBIA 4 GHANA 0

ALGERIA 3 NAMIBIA 1

MOZAMBIQUE 2.5 BOTSWANA 1.5