Nigerian chess master and founder of Chess in Slums Africa, Tunde Onakoya, embarked on a chess marathon session, hoping to raise $1 million for children’s education across Africa through the record attempt.
He had set out to play the royal game for 58 hours but continued until he reached 60 hours, surpassing the current chess marathon record of 56 hours, 9 minutes, and 37 seconds, achieved in 2018 by Norwegians Hallvard Haug Flatebo and Sjur Ferkingstad.
Onakoya is also a board member of the US non-profit, The Gift of Chess, which works to transform lives through chess and hopes to distribute one million chess sets to underserved communities by 2030.
You are a trailblazer, Tunde!