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Adia Onyango made a splash in her first month of eligibility for the Senior Women’s (50+) Invitational rating list. Onyango, who turned 50 in January, debuts at number ten on the updated-monthly lists tracking eligible players for national invitational events.
In the United States and Canada, February is Black History Month, a tradition that began in 1926 and seeks to commemorate important people and events in the history of the African diaspora. A good occasion for US Chess National Master and renowned coach Jerald Times to draw attention to the growing number of successful black chess players and the history of black chess players in the United States. | Photo: Rochelle Ballantyne | Source: <a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAAfLLy0VEs">YouTube, Stanford 125, Rochelle Ballantyne</a>
Inaugural HBCU Classic Carves a Space For Black Collegiate Chess Community
Impersonating a woman! At the Kenya Open, something unique happened when a man was caught playing in the women’s section. Registered as an unrated player, he was wearing a hijab (head and shoulder covering) typical of a Muslim woman, with a niqaab (face covering).
For much of its storied existence, Howard University in Washington D.C. – a historically Black university located in America’s capital city – has been known as "The Mecca of Black Education," or just "The Mecca". This year, at the Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Championship the Howard University Chess Club achieved the best result it has ever achieved in the Team Championship. A success that is partly due to hard training and the help of Jerald Times, an award-winning chess educator from New York City, and Tani Adewumi, the 12-year old chess talent from Nigeria, wh...