Twenty-six  year-old Tunde Onakoya is one of the top 50 chess players in his native Nigeria (rated 2165 FIDE), and is the founder of a life-changing organization called Chess in Slums. This organization introduces chess to kids in the slums of Lagos, Nigeria, and uses the game as a learning tool to instill confidence and teach critical thinking. It's a much-needed program, because the kids learning about chess are often unable to go to school due to financial or other life circumstances. As Tunde tells us, he was one of those kids not that long ago. Tunde credits chess with changing his life and aims to do the same for the next generation. Tunde is also a musician, a tech aficionado, a speed chess lover, and he has a university degree in Computer Science. Despite his many talents, it is his work bringing chess to kids that inspires him the most, and Tunde joined me amidst a week where a swarm of media attention had helped convince him to devote even more time and energy to the Chess in Slums cause. Tunde tells an inspiring story which is still in its early stages. Please read on for more details, relevant links and timestamps of our interview.  Mentioned: Bobby Fischer, Garry Kasparov, Anatoly Karpov, Jose Raoul Capablanca  Mentioned: Chess in Slums’ Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/chessinslums/?igshid=zmqk3bq3d52eHere is a tweet with the story of the girl named Basirat https://twitter.com/Tunde_OD/status/1265289693731721216?s=20Facebook page here-https://www.facebook.com/pg/chessinslums/posts/  Chess Courses Online - For All Levels in all - Chessable.comMentioned: Carey Fan, University of California, The Chess in Slums Go Fund Me link is here:https://www.gofundme.com/f/chess-education-in-africa?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_campaign=p_cf%20share-flow-1& Check out Chessmood’s blog here: https://chessmood.com/blog  and check out their YouTube, featuring Lessons with a Grandmaster here:https://www.youtube.com/c/ChessMood  Mentioned: Perpetual Chess Episode 42 with James Altucher, IM Eric Rosen, GM Simon Williams (Ginger GM), GInger GM’s Iron English course:  https://www.chessable.com/the-iron-english-botvinnik-variation/course/50500/Here is Tunde’s Lichess account:https://lichess.org/@/giftedhandz Here is all the contact info you need:The Chess in Slums Go Fund Me link is here:https://www.gofundme.com/f/chess-education-in-africa?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_campaign=p_cf%20share-flow-1&Twitter-https://twitter.com/Tunde_ODInstagram-https://www.instagram.com/chessinslums/?igshid=zmqk3bq3d52eFacebook- https://www.facebook.com/pg/chessinslums/posts/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices