Chess grasp, Tunde Onakoya, has revealed that his father offered his taxi to pay his West African Examination Council (WAEC) payment.
Onakoya who not too long ago set a brand new Guinness World Report for the longest chess marathon made this disclosure in a submit on his X deal with.
“It was an extremely painful sacrifice as a result of this affected him to some extent the place he needed to go away Lagos and return to the village to work in a bakery,” Onakoya mentioned.
“He at all times instructed us he had no regrets as a result of he needed us to get the training he by no means had.”
Onakoya mentioned his dad’s resolution to promote his taxi put him beneath immense strain to make it in life.
The brand new chess record-holder mentioned everybody had excessive hopes that he was going to grow to be a medical physician and save his household from poverty.
“You possibly can think about how devastating it was for everybody when I didn’t achieve admission to review medication regardless of all of the sacrifices my mother and father made.
“Every part spiralled from there however that’s a narrative for an additional day.”
Onakoya final Friday set a brand new Guinness World Report for the longest chess marathon after enjoying for 60 hours.
He had initially set himself a goal of 58 hours earlier than he determined so as to add two extra hours in Occasions Sq., New York, United States.
Onakoya skilled intense vomiting and stomachache through the problem however refused to surrender.
He has now surpassed the earlier Guinness World Report set by Norway’s Hallvard Haug Flatebø and Sjur Ferkingstad.
The 2 Norwegians set the report of 56 hours, 9 minutes, and 37 seconds for the longest chess marathon in November 2018.
Onakoya is barely awaiting the official approval of the Guinness World Report to emerge as the brand new chess report holder.
To attain this, Onakoya began enjoying chess continuous from 10 am on Wednesday, April 17 to 10 pm on Friday, April 19.
Onakoya arrange a program “About Play Chess With Tunde Onakoya” to help the goals of tens of millions of youngsters globally.
The 29-year-old mentioned the objective of this system is to donate 1 million chess units globally by 2030, utilizing chess as a easy software to increase entry to training.
To this point, they’ve secured 116,000 chess units for world distribution, reaching over 25 nations.