Nine-Year-Old Deborah Quickpen Wins Africa Youth Chess Championship
Deborah Quickpen, Nigeria’s youngest gold medallist, has been named the winner of the just concluded U-10 Africa Youth Chess Championship in Ghana.
The chess star gained 8.0 points to defeat Tunisia’s Hasnaoui Abrar in her 9th and final game.
The Bayelsa-born sensation was crowned champion amongst nineteen other players, who are representatives of different African countries in the competition. Deborah was among the two Nigerians selected to participate in the competition alongside others from Ghana, Kenya, Egypt, Tunisia and South Africa.
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The African chess champion has now made history as the youngest female chess player to win a Woman Candidate Master title.
Nine-Year-Old Deborah Quickpen was previously ranked first in West Africa and seventh in Africa, at the 7th African Chess Championship in Windhoek, Namibia, in 2019.
The then seven-year-old, who competed in the Under-8 category, won four games, lost three, and drew one to gather a total of 5.5 points.
Congratulations to Deborah Quickpen on achieving a new feat as an African chess champion.