{"id":27807,"date":"2024-04-17T19:59:11","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T19:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=27807"},"modified":"2024-04-17T19:59:11","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T19:59:11","slug":"nigerians-rally-behind-onakoyas-record-breaking-chess-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/04\/17\/nigerians-rally-behind-onakoyas-record-breaking-chess-marathon\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerians Rally Behind Onakoya’s Record-Breaking Chess Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Photos: Guinness World Record: Nigerians Cheer Onakoya As 58-Hour Chess Marathon Begins In New Yor<\/p>\n

Nigerians abroad have come out to support renowned chess master, Tunde Onakoya, as he embarks on a mission to surpass the Guinness World Record for the longest chess marathon.<\/p>\n

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Onakoya announced the commencement of the marathon via his X account with the caption, “Game time.”<\/p>\n

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He also wrote, “We haven\u2019t even started yet and Nigerians are already trooping in to camp out with me.”<\/p>\n

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Among those cheering Onakoya is Nigerian singer, Adekunle Kosoko, popularly known as Adekunle Gold.<\/p>\n

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The event, which is underway at New York City’s iconic Times Square, started at 10am on Wednesday, April 17, and is scheduled to end at 8pm on April 19.<\/p>\n

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Onakoya is set to engage in an intense chess marathon, aiming to play for 58 hours without a single defeat.<\/p>\n

The current Guinness World Record, set by Hallvard Haug Flateb\u00f8 and Sjur Ferkingstad of Norway on November 11, 2018, stands at 56 hours, 9 minutes, and 37 seconds.<\/p>\n

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Photos: Guinness World Record: Nigerians Cheer Onakoya As 58-Hour Chess Marathon Begins In New Yor Nigerians abroad have come out to support renowned chess master, Tunde Onakoya, as he embarks on a mission to surpass the Guinness World Record for the longest chess marathon.   Onakoya announced the commencement of the marathon via his X […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":27812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-27807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27807"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27815,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27807\/revisions\/27815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}