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Students seek adult chess mentors (Hibbing Daily Tribune, MN)

Ryan Pearl wants a new chess challenge.

While the 10-year-old Hibbing resident already knows the game, he’s wanting to get others his age involved and to the point of competition.

“It would be pretty fun,” said the fifth grader. “It would put people’s minds to the test.”

9-year-old among nation's tops in chess (Dallas Morning News, TX)

Darwin Yang, who stands 4-5, is barely taller than his national champion chess trophies. But his self-confidence creates the impression that he towers over the awards that stand like shiny sentinels in his Plano home.

Darwin, 9, has reason to be confident. He started taking chess lessons in April 2004 and already has won two national competitions in his age group.

"I'm happy and amazed so far," he said. "But I wasn't expecting it to go so fast."

Mexican national chess master becomes UTB-TSC’s first female player (Brownsville Herald, TX)

When it comes to life, chess and her education, 18-year-old Nelly Estrada knows how to take the time to make the right move.

“I’m a positional player,” said Estrada, who recently transferred to the University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College. “That means you are a more strategic kind of person who plans and plays slow games.”

Born in El Paso, raised in Juarez, Mexico, and continuing her education in Brownsville, the young master chess player considers herself an international student.

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