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Buddhika Amarasinghe of Sri Lanka won the Asian Amateur Chess Championship 2014 convincingly with a 7.5/9 score to win by a clear margin.

Text and photos: IM/ WGM Alina l’Ami

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Grandmaster SP Sethuraman of PSPB continues to remain alone at the top with 7.5 points, at the end of the eleventh round of the SIB-CMS Zone 3.7 & 52nd Indian Premier Chess Championship, organised by Kottayam Chess Academy at the college campus, today.

“Everyone should visit this special city at least once in his lifetime” says GM Zurab Azmaiparashvili, president

INTERVIEW by IM/ WGM Anna Matnadze

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By Oliver Shalala

The president of the Namibian Chess Federation Otto Nakapunda yesterday said in an interview that everything was moving well in the African Individual Chess Championships currently underway in Namibia.

“On behalf of all Namibians, I look forward to all chess players’ valued presence at this premier continental chess event. There are many stellar names and it is not easy to tell who will win,” observed Nakapunda during a tea break.

Report and photos by Oliver Shalala in Windhoek, Namibia

Zambia’s chess talisman Stanley Chumfwa says that the African Individual Chess Championships which began on Saturday in Windhoek, Namibia, is the easiest continental chess championship yet for Zambian players to win looking at the level the country has reached now.