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Green River hosts youth chess tournament (Green River Star, WY)

The linoleum hallways of Lincoln Middle School echoed with urgent whispers and hushed enthusiasm last Saturday morning as approximately 40 participants competed in a youth chess tournament.

Students battled in two divisions, grades K-5 and 6-12, traveling from as far away as Rawlins to test their game strategy against their peers.

In the 6-12 division, Rose Burke, an 8th grader from Rawlins, won the tournament with a perfect score of 4 points. Tournament scoring awards 1 point for a win, a 1/2 point for a tie and 0 points for a loss.

UTB-TSC wins national chess championship (The Brownsville Herald, TX)

The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College won the national collegiate chess championship over the weekend at the 2005 K-12/Collegiate Chess Championship in Houston.

UTB-TSC finished first among the top five schools with 16½ points — ahead of the University of Texas at Dallas and Texas A&M University, which each scored 11 points. The University of Houston had 6½ points and San Jacinto College rounded out the top five with two points.

UT Dallas is generally considered the team to beat in college chess, said Russell Harwood, UTB-TSC assistant chess coach.

Chess has kids making moves (Chicago Tribune, IL)

In 4th grade, Rishi Sethi felt as if he were the only child in Barrington who enjoyed chess.

It was a lonely pursuit. So with some help from his mother, Kiran Frey, he launched a chess club at Grove Avenue Elementary School. Seven years later, what started out as a small club has expanded to comprise nearly 300 students in seven schools in Barrington Community District 220.

"We have a chess club in almost every single school in the district," Rishi said, now 17 and a junior at Barrington High School.

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