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Kids make move to chess club (The Republican, MA)

Jovani Perez looked at the three chess pieces taken by opponent Anastasia Acevedo and recognized it was time for a new strategy.

"I only have one (of her) pawn(s) because I made a couple bad moves," Jovani, 11, said.

The two fifth-graders are part of the Alfred M. Glickman Elementary School's chess club. The club, run by parent Anna Levine, meets weekly after school.

Local 16-year-old is youngest in chess championship (San Diego Union-Tribune, CA)

Like football players build biceps, grandmasters of chess develop mental muscle.

A checkered board is their playing field, and by exercising cerebral powers of calculation and aggression, players strive to dominate an opponent. But perhaps the most important attribute required to win at chess is memory.

Elliott Liu, 16, possesses a computer-like capacity to memorize thousands of chess moves. The high school sophomore lives with his mom and dad in Olivenhain, attends The Bishop's School in La Jolla and won the Scholastic Champion of Champions tournament last month.

Off the rook: Students claim chess titles (Hilton Head Island Packet, SC)

If the belief that playing chess translates into better academic performance is true, then the report cards of two Heritage Academy students should be chock full of A's come the end of the grading period.

Or at least that seems warranted based on the performances of Rade Musulin and Joe Miller at the South Carolina State Scholastic Chess Championships, which were held Saturday at the Holiday Inn Oceanfront.

The 14- and 15-year-old friends, who have been playing chess together for about a year and a half, each nabbed trophies in high school categories of a tournament pitting at least 98 competitors.

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