Afrigather Retching and sicking up a little bit as the sport chugged alongside, chess grasp Tunde Onakoya refused to give up. Now he has set a brand new Guiness World Report for the longest working chess marathon at 58 hours. However he would nonetheless cling in there.
“We’ve a fundraising aim to satisfy for the schooling of African youngsters all over the world,” the 29-year-old instructed his followers on X.
“That is our why—the rationale we’re doing this. Let’s display to the world the unbelievable energy of affection.”
Onakoya is gunning for $1m to assist chess schooling for tens of millions of kids. The final replace on the fundraiser was $33,000—a far cry from the goal.
Nigerians are nonetheless cheering him on-line and offline. Afrobeats Star Davido, his colleague Adekunle Gold, former president candidate Omoyele Sowore, and different Nigerians in New York are there giving him again rubs. Music, Jollof Rice. Title it.
In Nigeria, many are additionally watching the livestream on Twitch, a video-streaming service.
President Bola Tinubu, his vp, Lagos Gov. Babajide Sanwo Olu have supplied their go-man-gos.
“Lagos is rooting for you,” Sanwo-Olu instructed Onakoya, including that his try was “a robust testomony to how greatness can emerge from anyplace”.
Onakoya has performed over 100 video games within the final 58 hours. 13 of them for random gamers who confirmed on the venue, Instances Sq.. Shawn Martinez, one other chess grasp and coach from New York Metropolis, joined him after 23 hours—to satisfy the GWR requirement for chess.
