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Little girls made of sugar, spice and everything chess (Chicago Sun-Times)

Alexis Stevenson, 7, sits perfectly still, elbow on table, brows furrowed. Her opponent, Tess Geri, 7, concentrates.

Tess starts moving her chess pawn toward Alexis' knight. Alexis rears ever so slightly. In a blink, it was over.

Alexis' win was just one of dozens of pint-sized competitions at the 2nd Annual All-Girls Open National Championships, sponsored by the Kasparov Chess Foundation and held Saturday at the Holiday Inn Mart Plaza.

Oshkosh man ready to checkmate at chess tournament (Oshkosh Northwestern)

Bryan Lilly will put his chess skills to the test against some of the best players in the world.

The Oshkosh resident competes this week in the prestigious HB Global Chess Challenge in Minneapolis. Upwards of 2,000 competitors from as many as 15 countries are expected.

Lilly, a marketing professor at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, is a three-time Wisconsin state chess champion in competition sanctioned by the United States Chess Federation. Tournament officials said the event in Minneapolis will be competitive with about 50 chess grandmasters from around the world expected to attend.

Pricey chess park has critics, finally getting some use (Los Angeles Daily News)

Sean Guillory of Los Feliz stumbled upon the city's $540,000 chess park on a recent weekday while waiting to get his car fixed at a nearby shop.

Reading a book at one of the benches, he hadn't noticed the 16 boards and towering chess pieces in the covered passageway along Brand Boulevard.

But when he realized the purpose of the park - despite the fact that the only users that day were a student studying during a break between classes and a lunchtime napper - he thought it was a wonderful way to spend public funds.

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