ByCHINEU ASADU and JOHN MINCHILLO
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NEW YORK CITY (AP)– A Nigerian chess champ and kid education supporter has actually played chess continuously for 58 hours in New York City’s Times Square to break the Guinness World Record for the longest chess marathon.
Tunde Onakoya, 29, intends to raise $1 million for kids’s education throughout Africa through the record effort that started on Wednesday.
He crossed the 58-hour mark at about 02:30 a.m. GMT Saturday, exceeding the existing chess marathon record of 56 hours, 9 minutes and 37 seconds, attained in 2018 by Hallvard Haug Flatebø and Sjur Ferkingstad, both from Norway.
The Guinness World Record company has yet to openly comment about Onakoya’s effort. It in some cases takes weeks for the company to verify any brand-new record.
Onakoya bet Shawn Martinez, an American chess champ, in line with Guinness World Record standards that any effort to climax should be made by 2 gamers who would play continually for the whole period.
Assistance had actually been growing online and at the scene, where a mix of African music kept observers and fans captivated in the middle of ch