A true honour to be crowned the 2026 West African Women’s Champion 🏆🧡✨ There was a point I wasn’t even sure I’d make it—but when the will is there, God always makes a way.

Someone once asked me if I ever thought about quitting. The question genuinely confused me. Quit? That word never lived in my head. There were hard seasons, times life got heavy and I just needed to breathe. But quit? No. Not this… Today, @promotingqueens turns 3. And in these 3 years, we have sat across a chessboard with 1,500 girls and women. We have watched them walk in unsure and walk out knowing something new about themselves. We did this with zero grants. No funding. Just people who believed this had to exist. I am so proud. 🥹 And I am so grateful.🙏🙏🙏 To everyone who has been here since day one I carry every one of you. This is yours too. We are not stopping until we reach girls everywhere. If something in you stirs reading this join us. As a volunteer, a donor, a partner, or simply someone who believes every girl deserves her seat at the board. Every girl is a Queen. 💜💜💜

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What’s the most painful loss you’ve ever had in an OTB chess game? I once played an entire game thinking I’d get an extra 30 minutes after move 30… turns out the increment kicks in after move 40 instead 🤣

French Defense: Tarrash Variation

What’s your top pick for an aggressive opening for both White and Black?

Instead of dwelling on the negatives, focus on the positives, because hardships are bound to happen. That much is beyond your control. But you do become what you allow access into your mind and life.

Female chess players are so beautiful guys 🥹 I’ve been seeing lots of them on my TL I’m really proud to be one of them 😌 To all female chess players out there the lord is your strength 😹 Losing a game is worse than heartbreak 😭😭

Thank you, @metrotvgh for this wonderful opportunity to spread awareness of the game of chess on Sports Direct. I did this along side @Anhwere_Nyameba and Ridham🧡.

Went to an Indian restaurant in Bucharest. Waiter saw me with the lichess app. Said he is very good at this game and can for sure beat me. Claims to have "two thousand rating". What do I do?

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If anyone told me 10 years ago that I’d become a national team player for Ghana, I probably wouldn’t have believed it I still remember my very first tournament in 2015. Yes, it is absolutely possible to do big things from small places When God has a plan, He carries it through.

If you could bring one Grandmaster back to life who would that be?

Looking for a chess sparring partner 😊♟️ Someone 2000 rated who’s down to study openings, analyse games, suffer through blunders together and pretend we “saw the tactic all along” 😭

I had the privilege of meeting the President of the GOC @GhanaOlympic , Mr.Richard Akpokavie, and the Director General of the NSA @Gh_NSA , Mr. Yaw Ampofo Ankrah @kingyawampofo1 . Grateful for the opportunity to discuss the growing future of chess in Ghana.

JUST IN: Deborah Quickpen gains 7 rating points at the Nigerian Chess Olympiad Qualifier, lifting her live rating to 2148 and extending her own record as the highest-rated Nigerian female player in history.

Strength never in doubt!!!

JUST IN: WCM Maud Benson wins the 2026 West African Women's Championship.