Crew Nigeria have touched down in Harare, Zimbabwe, forward of the 2024 African Youth Chess Championship (AYCC), signalling their readiness to battle among the continent’s brightest rising stars.
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The eight-day match, working from December 6 to 14, will function high prospects from Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Ghana and a number of other different African nations.
Nigeria will compete throughout the U10 to U18 classes, with a six-player contingent that includes promising kids Deborah Quickpen, Chiamaka Nwankwo, Zita Agusionu, Jason Nwankwo, Olakitan Elegbede and Adeola Elegbede.
The crew departed Lagos over the weekend and are anticipated to problem strongly for medals in a number of age teams.
Consideration naturally shifts to Bayelsa-born prodigy Deborah Quickpen, one of many nation’s most embellished youth gamers, who expressed confidence earlier than the crew’s departure. “I’m excited and searching ahead to the championship. My purpose is to return tops,” she stated.
With Nigeria in search of to consolidate its rising popularity in youth chess improvement, the championship supplies a key take a look at for the federation’s funding in younger expertise.
The gamers will now start their ultimate preparations as they be part of a whole lot of opponents hoping to clinch continental honours in Harare.
Nigeria needs its younger stars the easiest as they fly the green-white-green on the worldwide stage.
