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Kindergarten chess champ (Arizona Republic)

Kindergartner Joshua Brown fought five battles this month across checkered fields.

The Gilbert 5-year-old was armed with pawns and knights, among others, but succeeded in taking all kings.

And on Jan. 7 in Tucson, Joshua was named chess champion in the kindergarten class at the 2006 Arizona State Grade Championship.

St. John’s hosts chess masters (The St. John's Torch, NY)

St. John’s recently agreed to host a series of chess tournaments at the Marshall Chess Club in Manhattan. The tournaments are expected to attract the chess world’s most elite players. The first tournament was held Jan. 17.

Every third Tuesday of the month from January to April players will gather from all points of the globe to compete in this tournament against the crème de la crème of the chess world.

Organizing the tournament is Dr. Frank Brady, who along with serving as the Chair of Mass Communications, Journalism, Television, and Film at the University, also operates as an International Arbiter of the World Chess Federation and the coach of the St. John’s chess team.

Chess Master Takes On Ten In Fund-Raising Event (Caledonian-Record, VT)

To walk into the Unitarian Universalist Church in St. Johnsbury around 2 p.m. on Saturday, one would have seen chess master Doug Grant circling 10 different chess boards, each with a black king turned on its side.

But keep one thing in mind: Doug Grant always plays white.

Grant, a Littleton, N.H., resident, is certainly what one might call a prodigy, though he acknowledged that his skills did not come without a lot of practice. And at 63 years old he said it cannot be denied that age has made him a little slower.

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