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Chess meet draws masters, prodigies: Players say gamehelps participants to think logically (Idaho State Journal)

The President's Idaho Chess Tournament attracted the best and brightest chess masters and young prodigies to compete Friday and Saturday for one of the largest prizes ever offered in an Idaho chess tournament.

International Master John Donaldson, of Berkeley Calif., took home the $1,000 prize, saying Pocatello's prize was the biggest in the nation this week.

College students take on inmates -- on chessboards (Chicago Sun-Times)

Both teams in this chess contest are dressed in blue and white -- except players on one side wear shirts with ''Emory University Chess'' embroidered on the front and their opponents' have "STATE PRISONER" stamped on the back.

Welcome to the Emory-Phillips State Prison chess showdown, where a handful of college students take on killers and armed robbers.

The idea came from Emory chess club adviser David Woolf who wanted a way to bring chess out into the community. When he and his students learned chess was popular in prison, they got permission from the state to visit Phillips State.

Masters of chess make their move (Florida Today)

Bill Leinthall gingerly grasped the 4-inch-tall hand-crafted figure, examined it wistfully, marveled at its contour and sleek ebony wood and recalled a long-ago day near Cleveland, Ohio, when his passion for the game first took hold.

"I started playing at the Avon Oaks Country Club in 1966," the Palm Bay man said. "I was 10. My brother got me started. We played all the time, sitting in the caddy shack, and I haven't stopped since. It's an important part of my life."

He's not talking about golf.

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