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Chess national team selection tournament was held at the University of Botswana PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO

The Botswana Chess Federation’s (BCF) national team selection has a well-established history of revealing young talent. Whilst the focus was on the ongoing national team trials, what stood out was the domination by young players, reports CALISTUS KOLANTSHO

It has been a long search for the country's top talents that will ultimately make the national team cut, and there have been obvious standouts. Candidate Master (CM) Thuto Mpene, Blessing Motshabi and Vincent Motshabi have shone.

Mpene continues to show resilience and is steadily atop the qualifiers summit. CM Notha Moakofhi and Ndawana Mosenya are old guards who showed the starlets that age is just a number.

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