Chess champion and founder of Chess in Slums Africa Tunde Onakoya has announced that he is taking a break from the social media platform X.
Onakoya made the announcement in a post on X on Thursday, saying the platform had become “too heavy” for him to handle.
“This place has grown too heavy for me. As an empath, I feel too much darkness in the world pressing in. I’ll be stepping away for a while as I must guard my heart,” he wrote.
He added that fans and supporters could reach him on email for important matters, while he would continue sharing his thoughts on Instagram.
The announcement comes more than a year after Onakoya set a Guinness World Record for the longest chess marathon in New York, where he played chess for 60 hours to raise funds for children’s education.
Onakoya is the founder of Chess in Slums Africa, a non-profit initiative that uses chess to empower children from underserved communities with education and life skills.
