One year after, Onakoya and Martinez have embarked on a 70-hour chess marathon to reclaim the title and set a new world record. The event which began on April 17is taking place in Times Square ...

Nigerian chess master and founder of Chess in Slums Africa, Tunde Onakoya has made history by setting a new Guinness World ... record of 61 hours, 3 minutes, and 34 seconds was set in 2024 by ...

Nigerian chess master and founder of Chess in Slums, Tunde Onakoya, alongside his U.S. counterpart, Shawn Martinez, has officially set a new Guinness World Record for the longest chess marathon of ...

Chess master ... players set a new record of 61 hours just two months later. Now, a year later, Onakoya and Martinez are back, determined to reclaim the title and set a new world record.

Nigerian chess master and founder of Chess in Slums Africa, Tunde Onakoya, has officially broken the Guinness World Record for ... beating the 2018 record set by Norwegians Hallvard Haug Flatebø ...

He had set out to play the ... organization to confirm any new record. Onakoya played against Shawn Martinez, an American chess champion, in line with Guinness World Record guidelines that any ...

The previous record-holder for the youngest chess world champion was Russian grandmaster Garry Kasparov. He was 22 when he won in 1985 - a time when Russia and the former Soviet Union dominated ...

Magnus Carlsen, the world number one, soared to a new landmark in chess history yesterday when ... of 11 “picket fence” in the 1963-64 US Championship or Fabiano Caruana’s seven straight ...