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State's top chess players compete here (Idaho State Journal)

Twenty-nine chess players from across the state and ranging in age from 6 to 76 are in Pocatello for the state championship.

There were some familiar faces, such as Larry Parsons, who won the championship 15 times, and the oldest player, Glen Buckendorf, a 1951 champion.

Buckendorf played in the state's first chess championships in 1944.

KU team defeats K-State's Chess Club in schools' 1st meeting (Kansas State Collegian)

Mind games, time pressure and tactical errors summarize Saturday's chess clash between K-State and the University of Kansas. In terms of absolute points, KU won a close match, 7-5.

"This is the first time in the history of the chess club that we played against KU, and it was great," said Kenton Born, president of the K-State Chess Club and senior in computer science.

Five students founded the K-State Chess Club in 1997 under the guidance of faculty adviser Ron Madl, administrator in the Department of Grain Science and Industry.

Local youth face veterans in chess tourney (Greensboro News-Record, NC)

James Hale stared at the game board as though he were solving a math problem. The 8-year-old from Greensboro needed that level of concentration when going up against a veteran chess player.

"Dad," the youngster asked his father, "can you help me with any move?"

Hale and others between ages 6 and 18 took part Sunday in a chess tournament that the Greensboro Symphony and YMCA Greensboro sponsored. Their rivals were four experienced chess lovers, including Mikhail Nepomnyashchiy, an international chess master from Russia.

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