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Gorbachev visit to Kansas will launch chess peace initiative (Wichita Eagle)

More than 1,500 years after chess was used in India to peacefully settle disputes in provinces, former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev will come Kansas to kick off a modern-day peace movement.

The Chess for Peace initiative is the latest event to draw world-class players to the Lindsborg, a town of 3,200 people, since Russian immigrant Mikhail Korenman's passion for the game turned this central Kansas town into an international chess destination.

"I want to go back to this idea that people can sit down with a chess board and talk about peace," said Korenman, director of the Karpov Chess School in Lindsborg.

Kids becoming mates through chess program (Hamilton Journal News)

Kid are learning the finer points of playing chess at the Fairfield branch of the Lane Public Library.

And in the process, some of them are becoming check-mates.

At the beginning of the summer, the kids in the program were given a packet of information, said Marcy Martin, head of children’s services at the Fairfield branch of the Lane Public Library. That packet included graphics of each chess piece with an explanation of how it can move legally.

Chess is no tame game (Flint Journal)

Chess is no quiet game of wits for Jeff Aldrich of Genesee Township.

"Chess is a battle where you're out to destroy your opponent," said Aldrich, president of the Genesee County Chess Club and an editor of Michigan Chess Magazine. "But the moves can also be considered an art."

Aldrich is also director of the Michigan Chess Association's 2005 Michigan Open State Chess Tournament, which started Friday and continues through Monday.

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