National champion Martin Njoroge was dismayed with his performance at the ongoing Kenya National Chess Championships.
Njoroge noted that things did not go in accordance with his plan as he wished not to register any loss.
The chess star noted that his target was to register a clean sweep from the nine rounds of the Open Section of the tournament.
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However, Njoroge has already lost one of the seven rounds played at the Charter Hall in Nairobi.
“I judge my performance on how I play the actual games. Yesterday, there was a game in which my final position was okay but I lost because it was very complicated. So, I am slightly unhappy about my performance because I lost but I want to keep fighting and see what happens.
“My minimum target was to clinch the title by winning nine out of nine rounds but you see yesterday I lost in one round so I wouldn’t be able to achieve a clean sweep. We are on the seventh round and so let’s see what happens in the remaining two rounds,” Njoroge stated.
Kenya National Chess Championships is an annual competition, which began on Monday, December 26, and will culminate on Friday, December 30.
Chess Kenya will use the tournament to select the team to represent the country at the 2023 All Africa Games in Accra, Ghana.
Also, the winner in the Open section will take home a car and the winner in the ladies category with Ksh100,000.