Candidate Master (CM) Chiletso Chipanga, who earlier this year was crowned African Chess Amateurs champion in Livingstone, Zambia, has closed 2018 in high spirits having won this year’s Chess Association of Malawi’s National Championship that took place over the weekend at Crossroads Hotel in Lilongwe. From nine rounds of play from Friday to Sunday, Chipanga […]
Malawi national chess team depart for the 43rd World Chess Olympiad on Saturday, September 22 scheduled for the Eastern European city of Batumi in Georgia from September 23 to October 6 in a buoyant mood after undergoing a specialised training camp in Blantyre. The squad was mentored by Russian Grandmaster Vasily Papin who drilled the squad for two weeks in August. […]
Russian Grandmaster Papin Vasily is expected to land at Lilongwe International Airport on Monday August 6 to train the Malawi team that shall represent the country at the Chess Olympiad to be held in the Eastern European city of Batumi in Georgia from September 23 to October 6. During a world chess governing body FIDE Congress held in Zimbabwe August last year, […]
National and African Amateurs chess champion Chiletso better be in his top form than he is now ahead of the all-important Mdina Malawi Open Chess Championship to be played from June 14 to 17 in Blantyre. It’s just three weeks since his return from Cagliari, Italy at the World Amateurs where he finished an impressive 6th position out of […]
For Malawi chess players to emulate the achievements of Chiletso Chipanga, the African Amateurs champion, they need a lot of local and international exposure, the local champion said on his arrival from Cagliari, Italy for the World Ameturs where he finished an impressive 6th position out of 49 participants. Out of nine rounds played, Chipanga won six […]
Malawi’s National Chess Champion, Chiletso Chipanga, who is the Africa Amateurs gold medalist, finished an impressive 6th position out of 49 participants during the World Amateurs Chess Championship which was played last in Cagliari, Italy. Out of nine rounds he played, he won six to gather six points, just one point behind eventual winner, Singh Arvider Preet of Indonesia, […]
Malawi’s National Chess Champion, Chiletso Chipanga, who is the Africa Amateurs gold medalist, landed in Cagliari, Italy on Saturday to begin his quest for top honours at the World Amateurs Chess Championship which started on Sunday and continues for the next seven days. This is the second time for a Malawi chess player to participate […]
When Chipanga Chiletso started off for Livingstone, Zambia last week for the African Amateur Chess tournament nobody expected him to to go on and win it and he did in style by winning with one round to spare. His stunning performance so much impressed the chess fraternity that Chess Association of Malawi (Chessam) executive member, […]
Chess Association of Malawi (Chessam) executive member, Susan Namangale, who partnered with CBR Tours and Travel in sponsoring Chiletso Chipanga’s airticket to fly in the African Amateur gold medalist that he won during the tournament that took place in Livingstone, Zambia last week, will also sponsor a cocktail in his hounor on Sunday in Blantyre. Chiletso, won […]