{"id":127,"date":"2025-11-26T10:35:03","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T10:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sataranjiafrica.com\/blog\/?p=127"},"modified":"2025-11-26T10:35:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T10:35:03","slug":"lakeside-breeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sataranjiafrica.com\/blog\/?p=127","title":{"rendered":"LakeSide Breeze"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p id=\"block-49ae4c8e-32ef-49b0-89b1-2c35282e761b\">Lakeside breeze , the smell of fish and chess was in the air . The ambience at the Scottish Hotel, as the name suggests the owner is Scottish, was just amazing. Enough of little chit chat and unto the board. On Saturday September 28<sup>th<\/sup> and 29<sup>th<\/sup> , KCB , Nairobi Chess Academy and Club (NACHA), Strathmore , Victoria warriors ,Victoria Elites ,Kisumu Chess Club and equity were in Kisumu playing the league games. The games were action packed with a few surprises such as Hugh Masiko of Equity and Sinoya Evans of Victoria elites .Sinoya won the game with the black pieces, handing Hugh his first loss in a classical game this year. Equity however won the game with 3.5 to 1.5 .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-803805f6-a604-47aa-a3d3-81311e824be4\">The game that took the weekend was one of CM Ben Magana of KCB and James Emanikor of Victoria Warriors. James won with the black pieces in a dicey endgame .Despite this loss KCB would go forth and win the game 4 to 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\" id=\"block-ec0993f3-bc5b-453e-90de-f3a325c23228\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"352\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/sataranjiafrica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/word-image-137-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sataranjiafrica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/word-image-137-1.jpeg 352w, https:\/\/sataranjiafrica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/word-image-137-1-297x300.jpeg 297w, https:\/\/sataranjiafrica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/word-image-137-1-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 352px) 100vw, 352px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-c0deeda9-99e5-4497-bc14-f67cd3322d66\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-f76e7d8b-2919-4eb1-a995-f2cec98bdd64\">(CM Ben Magana VS James Emanikor)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\" id=\"block-8dae22be-0da4-4591-8685-d9c45d360754\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"470\" height=\"493\" src=\"https:\/\/sataranjiafrica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/word-image-137-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-129\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sataranjiafrica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/word-image-137-2.jpeg 470w, https:\/\/sataranjiafrica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/word-image-137-2-286x300.jpeg 286w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-e606f280-5228-4287-99b4-83ecd1cd8c93\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-ff3175e3-61f1-4a0e-8ffa-02d1a2e0840b\">As you can see it was a weekend full of drama and intensity over the board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-6b5c36d5-0c4d-4561-954c-68dcc21fd648\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-71395459-10ae-4b84-a7e5-550545712d9d\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-5e57c350-4058-4eec-aa34-8997acf01341\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lakeside breeze , the smell of fish and chess was in the air . 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