Chess at the All-Africa Games
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Chess
was an All-Africa Games
event at its inaugural edition in 2003
and has continued to feature prominently at the competition in each of its subsequent editions.
Chess
Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...
was an All-Africa Games
All-Africa Games
The All-Africa Games, sometimes called the African Games or the Pan African Games, are a regional multi-sport event held every four years, organized by the Supreme Council for Sport in Africa...
event at its inaugural edition in 2003
2003 All-Africa Games
The 8th All Africa Games were October 5-17, 2003 in Abuja, Nigeria. 53 countries participated in 23 sports. The main venue was the newly constructed Abuja Stadium...
and has continued to feature prominently at the competition in each of its subsequent editions.
Editions
| Games | Year | Host city | Host country |
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| VIII 2003 All-Africa Games The 8th All Africa Games were October 5-17, 2003 in Abuja, Nigeria. 53 countries participated in 23 sports. The main venue was the newly constructed Abuja Stadium... |
2003 | Abuja Abuja Abuja is the capital city of Nigeria. It is located in the centre of Nigeria, within the Federal Capital Territory . Abuja is a planned city, and was built mainly in the 1980s. It officially became Nigeria's capital on 12 December 1991, replacing Lagos... |
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| IX 2007 All-Africa Games The 9th All-Africa Games took place between 11 and 23 July 2007 in Algiers, the capital city of Algeria. Algiers is the first city to hold All-Africa Games for a second time. The 1978 All-Africa Games were held there... |
2007 | Algiers Algiers ' is the capital and largest city of Algeria. According to the 1998 census, the population of the city proper was 1,519,570 and that of the urban agglomeration was 2,135,630. In 2009, the population was about 3,500,000... |
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| X 2011 All-Africa Games The 10th All-Africa Games took place between September 3–18, 2011 in Maputo, Mozambique. Maputo's hosting marked only the third time the Games was held in the southern part of the continent.-Host awarding:... |
2011 Chess at the 2011 All-Africa Games Chess at the 2011 All-Africa Games in Maputo, Mozambique was held on September 5–13, 2011.-Medal summary:-Medals table:... |
Maputo Maputo Maputo, also known as Lourenço Marques, is the capital and largest city of Mozambique. It is known as the City of Acacias in reference to acacia trees commonly found along its avenues and the Pearl of the Indian Ocean. It was famous for the inscription "This is Portugal" on the walkway of its... |
Medal table
| 1 | align=left | |16 | 0 | 4 | 20 |
| 2 | align=left | |11 | 4 | 1 | 16 |
| 3 | align=left | |8 | 0 | 2 | 10 |
| 4 | align=left | |2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 5 | align=left | |1 | 9 | 3 | 13 |
| 6 | align=left | |1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| align=left | |1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 8 | align=left | |0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 9 | align=left | |0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 10 | align=left | |0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Total | 40 | 16 | 16 | 72 | |
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