The Chess Section of the Enugu Sports Club on Saturday flagged off its 2025 end-of-year annual competition at the Club’s Chess Conclave.

The ceremony opened with a novelty match between the leader of the Section, Oba Agbalanze Prince Chukwuemeka Onyeso, and Dr. Onwumere, and featured the theme: “The Very Best Move Often Does Not Exist.”

The Chairman of the Organising Committee and Secretary of the Enugu State Chess Association Board, Dr. JBC Emenike, announced that the main competition will commence on Monday, 1st December 2025, and continue daily. The grand finale and awards ceremony will hold on 12th December 2025 and Leaders and award night at the Chess Conclave, Enugu Sports Club, GRA, Enugu.

Speaking after the flag-off, the Leader of the Chess Conclave, Oba Agbalanze Prince Chukwuemeka Onyeso, noted that the event is part of the annual tradition in which every section of the Enugu Sports Club organises a competition to mark the end of the year.

In his remarks, the former Section Leader and Chairman of the Enugu State Chess Association Board, Dr. Onwumere, described the event as a social interaction platform designed to bring members together in a convivial atmosphere of friendship and celebration.

Dignitaries present at the ceremony included the Leader of the Chess Conclave, Oba Agbalanze Prince Chukwuemeka Onyeso; Chairman, Enugu State Chess Association Board, Dr. Onwumere; Deputy Leader, Sir Clement Okwor; Chairman, Organising Committee, Dr. JBC Emenike;  Dr. Alex Ogbonnia. Mr. Ment Nomeh, Chief Mrs. Erinne, among others.

In another development, the Enugu State Chess Association Board will conclude its chess promotion and sensitisation programme in selected secondary schools across Enugu metropolis at Abakpa Girls Secondary School on Tuesday, 2nd December 2025.

The Chairman of the Board, Dr. Onwumere, stated that the programme aims to popularise the game of chess in secondary schools across Enugu State, in order to identify and develop talented players who will represent the state at the forthcoming National Sports Festival, scheduled to hold in Enugu State in 2025.

He explained that the Association has so far visited and taught chess in eight schools, including Queens School, Enugu; College  of the Immaculate Conception (CIC), Enugu; Holy Rosary College, among others.

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Divine Akinrogunde has emerged winner of the Barrister Kehinde Cletus Idemudia Memorial Chess completion in Edo State.

The competition which featured boys and girls categories, saw Divine Akinrogunde defeat Richy Osaware to come top in the boys’ category, while Esther Sonyaolu defeated Victoria Oyakhilome to come first in the girls category

The event which was held on 9th May 2025 at the premises of Swift Education Centre in Benin City, Edo State, had 39 students from five secondary school in attendance.

Cash prizes of N40, 000, N30,000, N20000 and N10, 000 were won by the four best students in the boys’ and girls’ categories. A total of five rounds were played with a time control of 20 minutes per player. Two tie break matches were played to determine the winner for the boys’ category and for the second and third places in the girls category. The fourth positions had multiple winners, as with the custom in chess the prize allocated for the fourth position was shared equally amongst the fourth-place winners.

Medals and trophies were given to winners and their schools while certificates were awarded to all participants and officials. Divine Akinrogunde defeated Richy Osaware to come top in the boys’ category, while Esther Sonyaolu defeated Victoria Oyakhilome to come first in the girls category.

It would be recall that until his death in May 2013, Barrister K.C. Idemudia was a retired Permanent Secretary in the Edo State civil service. He was a devoted Christian of the catholic faith. His astute management of human and financial resources was rewarded with a “bead” by the late Oba Erediauwa, for the role he played in organizing the activities of the 1979 coronation ceremony of the late Benin Monarch.

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