Nigerian chess champion plays game for 60 hours in new global record bid

Tunde Onakoya, 29, a Nigerian chess champion and child education advocate, playing in Times Square in New York (Yuki Iwamura/AP)

A Nigerian chess champion and child education advocate played chess nonstop for 60 hours in New York City’s Times Square in a bid to break the Guinness World Record for the longest chess marathon.

Tunde Onakoya, 29, hopes to raise one million dollars (£0.8 million) for children’s education across Africa through the record attempt that began on Wednesday.