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It is the first edition of the Online Olympiad and the Nigerian chess players, having scaled through from the first round, shunned the competition after poor treatment by the Nigeria Chess Federation administration, our correspondent learnt.
“So, we pulled out because we didn’t have the resources to participate; we can’t be spending our money to be on Zoom for hours in this current situation. “When players were asking for the way forward, we didn’t get a response until the last minute when nobody was online to play; that was when the president started typing and appealing to players.”
On a possible sanction on Nigeria by world body FIDE over the boycott, Adu added, “The implication is not going to look good on the Nigerian Chess Federation at the world governing body. We will deal with whatever that comes out of it because there is a problem and we need a change.”
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