In an inspiring feature for the June digital issue of SIMPLE MAGAZINE, Record-breaking Nigeria’s youngest women’s chess champion, Deborah Quickpen or DebbyQuick as she is fondly called within the chess community for her quick thinking prowess, shares her remarkable journey from a curious child to a chess prodigy. Radiating confidence and determination, Deborah graces the…
Chess has always been a spectator game; it took a grand Exhibition to demonstrate that in Lagos Nigeria on the 11th of June. The exhibition match between the Guinness World Record holder, Tunde Onakoya, and Nigerian Woman National Champion, WCM Deborah Quickpen was a spectacle, the first time the game of chess commanded huge attention…
Daniel Ford International (U.K) has concluded plans to host a historic chess match between Guinness World Record holder, Tunde Onakoya, and Nigerian chess prodigy Deborah Quickpen to promote education and raise awareness for chess in the country. The epic match meant to raise awareness for chess in Nigeria, raise funds for Chess In Slums Africa;…
