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Russian chess master to share knowledge with kids this summer (Chicago Tribune)

Russian chess master Ilya Korzhenevich started playing at age 6 in Moscow. At 10 he could beat his father.

This summer Korzhenevich will be teaching chess to children ages 8 through 14 at Harper College in Palatine.

"It's a once-in-a-lifetime chance to learn chess from a Russian master," said Deanna White, college spokeswoman. "This will be the first time [chess] is taught at our summer program."

Over-sized Canaseraga chess set in check: More pieces taken from lawn game (Hornell Evening Tribune)

First, two kings went missing. Now, a pair of knights, a rook and a queen are gone.

The Olin family of Canaseraga is getting tired of someone stealing chess pieces from its lawn game. It was last July when the two kings were stolen, with the other pieces coming up missing sometime overnight Sunday.

Taken Sunday were a 15-inch tall white rook, a 23-inch tall black queen, and a white and black knight, each standing about 19 inches tall.

Kids get to push around kings (Albany Times Union)

Bobby Rotter's game is carved in his skin.

The 26-year-old from Rotterdam said he picked up chess five years ago, and since then has added a tattooed portrait of the game's great Bobby Fischer on his right calf and game pieces on his right arm. Sunday, Rotter and "sparring partner" Rob Fusco, 29, of Albany, played speed chess in Tricentennial Park at the first-ever Knight in the Park event sponsored by the Downtown Albany Business Improvement District.

The event was a way for the BID to show off the improved park, where a statue of former Mayor Thomas M. Whalen III was unveiled earlier this year. It also was a way for chess enthusiasts to bring the game to the people, the way the popular speed games in New York City's Washington Square Park draw spectators, said organizer Phil Ferguson of Poestenkill.

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