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A Nigerian man has group nan Guinness World Record for "longest chess marathon" aft playing for astir 5 consecutive days.
Tunde Onakoya, 29, began his 60-hour chess crippled successful Times Square successful New York City connected Wednesday, April 17, earlier calling it quits astatine 12:40 a.m. connected Saturday, April 20, said The Associated Press.
The erstwhile grounds was 56 hours, 9 minutes and 37 seconds, and was group successful 2018 by Hallvard Haug Flatebø and Sjur Ferkingstad of Norway, said nan AP.
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Guinness World Records has yet to corroborate that nan grounds was broken; this process tin return weeks, nan AP noted.
Onakoya played his chess crippled against American chess subordinate Shawn Martinez.
The rules of nan grounds authorities that a subordinate has to play nan aforesaid subordinate for nan entirety of nan chess marathon.
Tunde Onakoya, right, a Nigerian chess champion and kid acquisition advocate, precocious group nan grounds for "longest chess marathon" aft a 60-hour crippled successful Times Square successful New York City. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
Onakoya and Martinez were permitted to return a five-minute break for each hr of chess they played.
These breaks "were sometimes grouped together," said nan Associated Press, and Onakoya was shouted connected by a crowd some online and successful personification passim nan grounds attempt.
"The support has been overwhelming from Nigerians successful nan U.S., world leaders, celebrities and hundreds of passersby," he told nan AP.
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Among nan group pursuing Onakoya's grounds effort was erstwhile Nigerian Vice President Yemi Osinbajo.
Osinbajo posted connected X (formerly known arsenic Twitter) a reminder for Onakoya to "remember your ain powerful words: 'It is imaginable to do awesome things from a mini place.'"
Onakoya and his force were only allowed a five-minute break for each hr of chess they played. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
With nan grounds attempt, Onakoya hopes to raise $1 cardinal for children's acquisition successful Africa.
He raised $22,000 nan first time of his grounds attempt, said nan Associated Press.
Expanding acquisition opportunities for mediocre children successful Africa is 1 of Onakoya's passions.
He is laminitis of Chess successful Slums Africa, an statement that teaches children who are surviving successful utmost poorness really to play chess.
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"As a consequence of utilizing chess arsenic a instrumentality for socioeconomic transformation, we person succeeded successful securing lifelong scholarships for complete 200 children from indigent homes," says nan website for Chess successful Slums Africa.
At nan 24-hour mark, Onakoya said his power was "at 100% correct now" owed to nan support of group who were pursuing his effort to group nan record.
Onakoya is laminitis of Chess successful Slums Africa, a nonprofit statement that teaches chess to children surviving successful poverty. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
There are galore Guinness World Records related to chess games, chess pieces and chess sets, says nan organization's website.
The grounds for "largest chess piece" is presently held by a 20-foot-tall king portion located astatine nan World Chess Hall of Fame successful St. Louis, Missouri, said Guinness.
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On nan different extremity of nan size spectrum, nan grounds for "smallest handmade chess set" belongs to Ara Davidi Ghazaryan of Los Angeles.
Ghazarian, an artist, made an 8mm-by-8mm chess group to execute nan grounds connected August 22, 2020.
The individual pieces are 1mm to 2.4mm tall, said Guinness.
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And connected Feb. 17, 1989, chess masters Ivan Nokolic and Goran Arsovic of what was past Yugoslavia played a 269-move crippled of chess, mounting nan grounds for "most moves successful a chess game."
That game, said Guinness, took 20 hours and 15 minutes and ended successful a draw.
The Associated Press contributed reporting.
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Christine Rousselle is simply a manner newsman pinch Fox News Digital.
