Nigerian chess champ plays royal game for 60 hours

NEW YORK—A Nigerian chess champion and child education advocate played chess nonstop for 60 hours in New York City’s Times Square to break the Guinness World Record for the longest chess marathon. Tunde Onakoya, 29, hopes to raise $1 million for children’s education across Africa through the record attempt that began on…

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