Meet Woman FIDE Master Sasha Mongeli
Sasha Mongeli attained the Woman FIDE Master title due to her good results at the 2018 Chess Olympiad in Batumi. As a debutant, she put in a commanding performance and won 7 of her...
Tagged: 2018 Olympiad
Ben Magana Playing the Marshall Attack
Let me start by thanking Warren Pollock for an astonishing 104 Game Spotlights over the last 2 years. His articles can still be enjoyed on our website but we hope to see him back...
Game Spotlight: Positional Blunders
While I was inputting the games for the 61st Nairobi Chess Club Open Championship, I noticed one of the games had a well-known play mistake. Unlike the blunders seen here, though, this one was...
Traps, Tricks & Mistakes: Lack of Foresight
Today’s game occurred in the 43rd Chess Olympiad which took place in Batumi (Republic of Georgia) It was in round 2 when team Argentina met team Andorra and this example is interesting because of...
Game Spotlight: 2018 Olympiad 3
Finally, titles have been confirmed from the 2018 Olympiad and Kenya has a new WFM. Sasha Mongeli excelled in the womens’ event, with 7 wins in 8 games. Her biggest win came in the...
Game Spotlight: 2018 Olympiad 2
Although information about new CM and FM titles has been hard to come by, there is one exception. Thanks to the reporting of AllAfrica, we can say that Uganda’s Gloria Nansubuga won herself a...
Game Spotlight: 2018 Olympiad 1
As a disclaimer, this will not be quite the series I intended it to be. I wanted to use some columns to highlight the Olympiad and what happened in East African chess at the...
