‘I use chess to empower women’

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PROFILE

Name: Nomcebo Sibisi

Age: 25

Club: Siteki Chess Club

Role Model: Judith Polgar

Achievement: 2023 Edition Women Chess Championships Winner

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2022 India’s 44th Chess Olympiad

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There is an irony in how we as a society speak of immigrants and their courage while admiring them from afar, and the tropes that portray their resilience in a fantastical way. We even come up with names and labels for them. We don’t necessarily examine what they experience hour after hour or see their daily lives clearly, but we lavish heroism upon them. Daughter in Exile is, in a way, a classic story of the American Dream. Acclaimed author of The Teller of Secrets, Bisi Adjapon, returns with a gut-wrenching, yet heartwarming story about a young Ghanaian woman’s struggle to make a life in the US, and the challenges she must overcome. Lola is twenty-one, and her life in Senegal couldn’t be better. clohteossf,tchiensgsspfireocems athnde upnsdycehrsotlaongdyinogf tahcattictse.aCcheess oisnaectuoallelyarthnefrboemst stphoerirt meaicshtapkelasy. e“rI’sbeglaiemvesalasnodanmaylyoswinng games may be a trick to those who dSiobinsoi tsaseidlf. S-rheeflseacitdopnrtahceticregmamakese,s” tpheerfSeicmt,uanydetChahtewssaCsltuhbeacsasset.wSihthe spaiodrthheirngpsehrseoavnialyl gornoawlwthayisnpolanytihnge chess, practising and studying chess while rekindling the spirit of the game with some inspiration from most Women Grand Masters (WGM). “I have been always looking up to udith Polgar, the strongest Women Gtimraensd. M“Haesrtuepr,barnindgignrgeiantsepsitreosfmalel HKanaudsnphgaorwoiavsn,h”fesehmweaasnleacbrhrleeastesodgb.rePaaontldgGmararsiysthearv.eSshuerpisaasslseod 2th7e00onlyo,wreoamchaingtoa peak world ranking of No. 8 in 2004 aisntdhpeeoanklryawtinogmoaf n27t3o5bienr2a0n0k5e.dShine rtheaecthoipngtetnhaotfralnl kchinegssinp1la9y9e6r.s, first us“eWdhteontaIlkwabsoyuotucnhge,sms ayncdoIugsoint interested in this Ǯchess’ game that excited my cousin. I started learning tshoemgeamfeewamndoevnedseadnudpparbinsocripbleeds boyf pthriessrtiogyeaal tgtamche.dTthoethcoemgapmleexistyqaunitde qexuceietingnoanteddg. rAefatte,”rtnhoetrinegigbneininggcihnesos dmifafneryeOnltyemnvpiraodnsm, shenetgso, ctuelxtuproesseadntdo played with some of the highly rated phelaryfeuresl .foWr thhileeŒowuirnneiyntgo trhoephhigiehsesist trhaenkta,wrgientnbiuntgthtreocprhaizeiessitssntaot-ulos nevger. dr“eWaminnyoinugktnrowp,hsioesthiaste’svdeerfyinointel̵ys pevaertryofcmheyslsistp.lWayeellra’slsdor, eita’smaltmoobset good at it, to learn more about the sport and to be a Grand Master (GM).

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(Courtesy pics) Eswatini’s Chess queen Nomcebo Sibisi has spoken on how she perceives the sport which has saw her steal the crown over the past weekend.