It was a classic
case of “Veni, vidi, vici” which translated from Latin means “I came, I saw, I
conquered”.
Patrick Kawuma
from Uganda did that in great style in winning the 55th Nairobi
Chess Club Championship which was held last weekend. Patrick won the event with 5.5/6 and on his
way to victory beat Amit Dodhia, George Ochieng, George Nderitu, Brian Taboso,
fellow compatriot Harold Wanyama and in the last round he drew with Ricky
Sang. His victory earned him a
respectably KShs 20,000 in an event that was sponsored by ARM Engineering
amongst other supporters and which had a prize fund of KShs 67,500.
Compatriot Harold Wanyama (left) takes on Patrick Kawuma in a game that he lost |
The event
attracted 64 players and included big names like the current Kenya National
Champion Ben Magana, veteran Olympian player John Magana, Ken Omolo, SOYA Award
Winner Sharanya Iyengar. This event had
Adia Onyango who resides in the USA and who won the Ladies category to pocket
KShs 5,000. Two Ugandans Harold Wanyama
and Bob Bibasa who have represented Uganda at various international events were
also present.
Behind Patrick
were Harold Wanyama, Mowlid Daud, Ricky Sang
& Ken Omolo who each won KShs 7,400 to take position 2 to 5.
Adia Onyango won
the ladies with SOYA Award winner Sharanya Iyengar taking 2nd slot
and Sanjana Deshpande taking the 3rd place in the Ladies category.
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