AFRICAN CHESS TALES
THE RISE OF CONSOLATRICE KABASO MWILA. For some, Ndola is widely known as Zambia’s second largest city in the aspect of infrastructural development. The city, nicknamed ‘ NoliNoli’ is renowned to the locals for its ‘friendless’. And yet for the chess society in Zambia or indeed all those who follow chess goings-on in the country, Ndola is an iconic city as it blessed the whole Sub Saharan Africa with its foremost Grand Master and the third in the history of the game. Since the heydays of dazzling Amon Simutowe, Ndola has continued producing glittering chess stars in the region. The champ in action . But most of these chess genii have been males. 10 year old wonder girl Consolatrice Kabaso Mwila is soon poised to change that status. She too, hails from the city of Ndola which was founded in 1904, by John Edward "Chiripula" Stephenson just six months after Livingstone , making it the second oldest colonial-era t