He founded a Chess foundation known as Chess in Slums Africa, where he trains children on playing chess across parts of Lagos slums like Majidun (korodu, Makoko, and, Oshodi.
Former event
The former holders of this record were Hallvard Haug Flatebø and Sjur Ferkingstad, from Norway. And the event took placed at Haugesund, Norway where played for 56 hours, 9 minutes and 37 seconds on 11th November, 2018.
Conditions for the marathon
- The conditions of the marathon game is that two persons must play each other as opposing team for the specified time in a public place for public inspection.
- The team has only five minutes to rest in every hour of the activity. On their own agreement, they can defer the rest period. Subject to GWR’s ratification, the title belongs to Onakoya and his opponent.
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The journey of Tunde Onakoya to becoming a world-renowned chess master began in Isale Odo in Ikorodu, Lagos State, Nigeria. Where he acquired the skill as a boy in a barber shop , and later advanced his skills through his secondary school Chess club as he said during an interview with a Nigerian lifestyle blog Zikoko
The interview
“During my teenage years, we lived in a slum community called Isale Odo in Ikorodu. It was in Ikorodu that things got really bad for my dad. He had a danfo which he used to lease out to drivers who would bring him an agreed amount. Sometimes, he would drive it himself. There were even days he’d be the conductor. Then his danfo ran into a series of problems and was no longer a source of income,”
“I couldn’t start secondary school because my parents were too poor to raise school fees — my brother was still in primary school and they couldn’t afford to pay for the both of us. They didn’t want me to go to a public school, as they were notorious for their poor standards and cultism. And so while my mates were in JSS 2, I was wasting at home. It was during this time that I found chess.” Quoted.
