ZAMBIA CHESS MASTER DATES GEORGIA…

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ZAMBIA is known to produce great talents in different sports especially in football but even minor sports such as Chess are not an exception. One such talent is a 26 year old, Prince Mulenga currently ranked 8th in the country.

Prince Daniel Mulenga 
The iconoclastic genius whose one of the greatest chess player the country has ever seen after international Grand master Amon Simutowe and others. His therefore, currently highest rated player from Copperbelt province and credible professional coach. 

Indeed, chess is truly a sport that brings people from around the world together. Prince in three months’ time he will be representing Zambia at the 43rd World Chess Olympiad to be held in the City of Batumi, Georgia.  

With population about 3.718 million, Georgia is located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea and the north by Russia, the south by Turkey and Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan.

Prince started playing chess at a comparatively old age of 12 when he was in grade 8. "I learnt how to play Chess in 2005, I was 12 years turning 13 when I knew the game, a very good local player by then by the name of Godwin Kosamu taught me the moves and I quickly fell in love with the game", Prince remembers.

A Bachelor Degree holder in Forest Management at Copperbelt University was not easy for him to establish himself as a top player in the country as it took him some years to firmly establish himself.

"I had faced a lot of challenges in improving my play especially that there were few players in my hometown (Chambishi) to train with hence my progress in Chess was not that fast compared to talents such as Simutowe and Kayonde at the same age", He added.

He says the corporate world needs to come on board and help minor sports not only Chess but others as well if talent is to be unleashed.

Prince believes doing sports help to combat social vices such as Illicit Sex, Drugs and excessive alcohol drinking which are common in youths and as such calls for the government to improve the sports sector in the country by pumping a lot of money in the sector.

His hopes and modest achievements in his past will probably make him be able to gain and be able to apply at such a World Stage event and do well for the glory of Mother Zambia.

And Chess Federation of Zambia Executive has also acquired a Grandmaster Chess coach from Ukraine for the Male National Team and teams expected to camp weeks before Olympiad in Abu Dhabi Capital of United Arab Emirates (UAE).

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