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The rise of brilliant chess minds

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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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The rise of brilliant chess minds

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

Bodungwane settlers fight for their ancestral land

Basarwa of Bodungwane rush to court over eviction threat

Kario eyes Maun West

Gov’t rules out new jobs in public service

BDC seals P1bn funding for SMEs

Debswana to sweat off non-core assets

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French firm finalises Medswana takeover

Celebrate responsibly, put safety first this holiday