A Nigerian chess champion and child education advocate played chess nonstop for 60 hours in New York City's Times Square to break the Guinness World Record for the longest chess marathon.
Tunde Onakoya, 29, hopes to raise $1 million for children's education across Africa through the record attempt that began on April 17.
He had set out to play the royal game for 58 hours but continued until he reached 60 hours at about 12:40 a.m. on April 20, surpassing the current chess marathon record of 56 hours, 9 minutes and 37 seconds, achieved in 2018 by Norwegians Hallvard Haug Flatebø and Sjur Ferkingstad.
