First ChessMasters Match to Embody 500+ Younger Gamers from 100+ Colleges
The initiative with Lagos-based KEY academy and Eko Inns & Suites, Goals to Pioneer a Pan-African Motion in Training and Chess
Saturday, Could 3, 2025
Eko Inns & Suites, Eko Conference Centre Lagos
Register right here to take part: https://www.keyacademyng.org/chessmasters
On Saturday, Could 3, 2025, the first-ever ChessMasters event will happen at Eko Inns & Suites, bringing collectively over 500 younger gamers from greater than 100 faculties for what is ready to develop into Africa’s largest annual faculty chess event, competing for greater than ₦5,000,000 in prize cash. The inaugural ChessMasters event is open to main faculty youngsters aged between 6 and 11 years outdated, throughout Lagos, who’re desirous to problem themselves, assume critically, and compete on the highest stage. Greater than only a competitors, ChessMasters is the launchpad for a daring new imaginative and prescient: a pan-African motion leveraging chess as a software for training, empowerment, and management improvement.
ChessMasters was conceived by Mrs. Caline Chagoury Moudaber, Director of Eko Inns Restricted and KEY academy Founder Mrs. Damilola Okonkwo – each moms of younger boys for whom chess has been a strong software for studying and development. After seeing first-hand how chess was sharpening their minds, constructing their confidence, and nurturing the type of strategic considering that prepares a toddler for all times, they determined to accomplice on this initiative to drive constructive change, construct management expertise, confidence, and strategic acumen for the youth of Nigeria.
On the technical entrance, Chess in Slums Africa (CISA), one of many continent’s most revered chess improvement group, is offering end-to-end technical assist for the event. Famend for his or her work in remodeling the lives of underserved youngsters by chess, CISA brings deep experience in event structuring, officiating, and participant improvement.
A groundbreaking collaboration between KEY academy, (an training firm together with Africa’s first 100% project-based faculty) and Eko Resort & Suites (Lagos’ main venue for large-scale cultural occasions and programming) – ChessMasters is designed to equip the subsequent era of African leaders with important considering, problem-solving, and confidence. With plans to broaden to the remainder of Nigeria, and finally your entire continent, this event will create long-lasting impression, positively benefiting youngsters for a few years to return.
“ChessMasters represents all the things we stand for at Eko Inns Restricted – a dedication to programming that can encourage native creatives, empower native communities, and nurture future leaders,” famous Caline Chagoury Moudaber, Director of Eko Inns Restricted. “Our dedication to Lagos shouldn’t be solely to offer an inspiring place for guests to remain and for occasions to happen, however to create platforms that unlock potential and drive constructive change throughout town and past.”
“At KEY academy, we imagine studying ought to transcend memorization and take a look at scores, and as an alternative domesticate Twenty first-century expertise together with important considering, problem-solving, and resilience, essential expertise for our quickly altering world. ChessMasters is an extension of that philosophy – a platform the place younger minds can develop Twenty first-century expertise that can serve them in each side of life. By integrating chess into training, we’re not simply instructing a recreation; we’re shaping a era of drawback solvers and future leaders for Africa,” continued KEY academy founder Damilola Okonkwo.
ChessMasters is based on a easy but radical concept: chess is greater than a recreation – it’s a software for unlocking potential. By bringing this event to life, the founding staff goals to reveal how structured, strategic considering can empower younger minds, fostering expertise that can serve them in teachers, entrepreneurship, social impression, and management roles for years to return.
The event is impressed by the mission of Eko Inns & Suites to create, assist, and promote programming that builds a stronger, extra dynamic, and extra vibrant future for Lagos, alongside KEY academy, who by its faculty and broader initiatives in nationwide trainer coaching and accreditation, publishing and digital content material is spearheading Twenty first-century, project-based training in Nigeria. By leveraging chess as a cornerstone of its method, KEY academy is pioneering a shift towards real-world studying and significant considering that can equip the subsequent era with the instruments they needn’t simply to vary their native communities, however the world at massive.
ChessMasters has garnered assist from a various group of blue-chip manufacturers and industry-leading innovators, underscoring its credibility and far-reaching impression.
Match winners and particulars of future programming might be introduced within the coming weeks.
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