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Junior chess team takes first place in region (Piggott Times, AR)

The Piggott School District had the honor of hosting the regional junior high chess competition for the Chess Association of Arkansas Schools (CAAS) on Saturday, Dec. 10. Piggott’s junior high team emerged victorious with first place in the 1A-2A competition. Sponsor Candy Williams said it was the first time the junior squad brought home a first place trophy.

Williams said 12 schools were assigned to the region competition and a few didn’t show up due to being out of school for weather on Thursday and Friday of that week. Due to the absent schools, 1A-5A schools had to play each other instead of having two separate groups.

Williams said the Piggott squad also lost three of their starting players to other activities that were already scheduled - that fact made the win “even more joyous”.

Chess team wins seventh title (Kansas City Star)

In basketball it’s UCLA. In hockey it’s Michigan. In baseball it’s Southern Cal.

And now in chess, the dynasty, the champion of champions, is Maryland, Baltimore County.

The Retrievers earned a place in history last week by winning the Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship in Miami for a record-breaking seventh time.

Chess artwork captures piece of the imagination (Newsday, NY)

In December 1944, art dealer Julien Levy mounted a legendary exhibition devoted to that elegant substitute for bloodshed, chess.

Levy shared a passion for the game with his surrealist friends Max Ernst and Marcel Duchamp. It must have been comforting for those refugees from a continent submerged in savagery to engage in violence tamed into a civilized pursuit. Chess was also a good metaphor for surrealism: a dapper ritual of savagery enacted against a background of pure rationalism.

"From my close contact with artists and chess players," Duchamp proclaimed, "I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists."

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