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It was 18 year old Robert Mcligeyo from Kenya that emerged victorious after 6 rounds of 10 minut games against other youngsters engaged in our programs aswell as supporting adults. Robert won the first 5 games and then secured his win through a draw in a winning position against Mr Dodgy who ended up in 5th place. Second was Alton Banda from Zambia. Alton have increased his FIDE elo from 1782 to 2068 in the last 8 months. He is approaching a bright future but needs more support, to cover training and tournament expenses. Just reach out to us if you would like to support him.
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Third was Perpetual Ogbiyoyo from Nigeria who had a great tournament with 5 wins and only 1 loss. Perpetual is country coordinator for Nigeria in our Cross Culture Girls program.
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Other noteworthy performances was Kennedy Shane from Zambia on 4th place and Lesley Hunter who placed 10th after scoring 4 points. An excellent performance from the former Miss Florida who started to play chess after watching The Queen´s Gambit on Netflix. A big Thankyou to our team of excellent arbiters, to Ruben Harris, to all participants and to our sponsors Chess.com and Chessable.
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