Tunde Onakoya Breaks Chess Marathon World Record, Awaits GWR Confirmation

The Guinness World Record (GWR) for the longest chess marathon has been broken by the well-known Nigerian chess champion Tunde Onakoya.

Onakoya and his friend Shawn Martinez accomplished this on Sunday while running a 70-hour marathon in Times Square, New York.

The Norwegian players Odin Blikra Vea and Askild Bryn set the record of 61 hours, 3 minutes, and 34 seconds in 2024, but Onakoya, the creator of Chess in Slums Africa, beat it with 62 hours.

Despite crossing the 62-hour threshold, Onakoya and Martinez will continue playing until the 70-hour mark to amplify their cause: raising funds to build free schools for homeless children across Africa.

“Doing this for the dreams of millions of children across Africa without access to education,” he had said.

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