Chess Events for East Africa
Paras Gudka has announced the launching of a website that covers east African chess activities. “Chess Events EAC” will announce scheduled events in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi, but also has a function for events outside the East African Community (EAC). The site will also have historic reports, games, photos and a collective reservoir of chess news and links.
Nairobi Chess Club takes on Kenya Commercial Bank in Kenyan Chess League. Photo by Kim Bhari.
Interesting! This is good news. I hope this site will be as informative as The Chess Drum. Going for a visit now!
Hey Daaim, I think the brothers on East Africa website need your help. I hope they are reading your blog; because they should not upload a newspaper article with games. How will we review the games? Please go to a free server, where you can get a chess board, and input the games so we may replay them on your site. Looking forward to visiting your site often.
LOL. Although, why not copy and paste the games in notepad and save the file as a .pgn? I think this would work and it doesn’t take long.
Daaim:
Thank you so much for posting this to The Chess Drum blog. I hope more people from East Africa come forward with information on chess events happening in their respective regions. At the moment, finding reliable information is taking a lot of time and effort.
As for why I uploaded scanned copies of the newsletters, you hit the nail on the head. I was making available chess relics from the not-too-distant past for those who didn’t get to see them when they were published.
Daaim
Many thanks for putting the http://www.chesseventseac.com on your site. Kenyan chess benefits from your world wide audience.
I was involved in the preparation of the newsletter and will try to find the real document. I have a number of the games in pgn as well I just need time to dig it up.
I have a huge number of files with lots of historic information. I am hoping to sort it out and start to put them on the web.