To celebrate FIDE’s centenary, FIDE aimed to set the record for the most chess games played in 24 hours, both online and over-the-board. To support this World Record attempt, South African Chess Hub hosted various online events throughout the day on 20 July 2024.
Thank you to all the players that participated in our FIDE100 Guinness World Record Lichess and chess.com Arenas on Saturday, 20 July 2024!! With your help we managed to add 811 games to the record attempt!!
Well done to the winners of the respective arenas:
10am: Itumeleng Valashia
12pm: Antonio Dos Martiris
2pm: Okuhle Maza
7pm: Bhavesh Mahajan (India) – R100 cash prize
– Ricardo Stambull (top South African) – R100 cash prize
10pm: Uros Brankovic (Serbia) – R100 cash prize
– Wayne Minnies (top South African) – R100 cash prize
The lucky draw cash winners were Morena Moleko (King12_P) and Shekhinah Weaver (shekhinahweaver)!!
Arena links:
10am: https://lichess.org/tournament/NKRNQSi7
12pm: https://www.chess.com/tournament/live/arena/sa-chess-hub-fide100-gwr-arena-3543375
2pm: https://lichess.org/tournament/SzcVK19N
7pm: https://lichess.org/tournament/dG7JWmkP
10pm: https://lichess.org/tournament/Ve4Gdvet
