Nigeria’s youngest gold medallist, Deborah Quickpen has emerged winner of the just concluded U-10 Africa Youth Chess Championship in Ghana.
The nine year old Bayelsa-born Chess prodigy who amassed 8.0 points, defeated Tunisia’s Hasnaoui Abrar in her 9th and final game, to be crowned champion ahead of nineteen others drawn from other African nations.
The multiple medalist was among the two Nigerians selected to participate in the competition alongside others from Ghana, Kenya, Egypt, Tunisia and South Africa.
Following her emergence as the champions of the African junior chess, Deborah has now made history as the youngest female chess player to bag a WOMAN CANDIDATE MASTER title.
In 2019, Deborah Quickpen was ranked seventh in Africa, and first in West Africa after the Chess Championship in Namibia in 2019.
