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Young female chess champions vanquish foes, take no prisoners (East Valley Tribune, AZ)

Kao Smith likes beating boys — especially at chess. “It makes me really mad when they think they’re going to win because they’re playing some girl,” says Kao, a tiny 11-year-old. “I get really mad, and I just beat them up if I can. Not physically, mentally.”

She sits across the chess board from Shadia Zeineddine, who at 13 is one of the top-ranked girl players in the Valley. The girls are facing off in the last round of the fourth annual Sonoran Desert Women’s Championship.

“I was playing in a tournament once with all guys,” says Shadia. “They all thought they were going to win (because I’m a girl). I beat every one of them. Now I have respect.”

New Rochelle championship brings out young chess players (The Journal News, NY)

Although it rained all afternoon, cars packed the perimeter of New Rochelle High School and jockeyed on the narrow side streets yesterday as though it were a sunny Homecoming Saturday.

Inside the school, the hallways near the gymnasium looked like a busy terminal with canceled transportation. Adults camped on the floor along the wall, each guarding Sunday papers, coats, toys for younger children, food and hand-held electronic devices.

But on the other side of the double doors in the gymnasium, where hundreds of chessboards and chess sets were laid out on tables across the basketball court, it was quiet enough to hear a pawn drop.

West claims chess title for fourth straight year (The Capital Times, WI)

For the fourth consecutive year, Madison West took top honors at the Wisconsin Scholastic Chess Championship last weekend at UW-Oshkosh.

West's top-ranked A team includes Jeremy Kane (who also won Varsity Division 1, 1st Board Champion), Siarhei Biareishyk (who also won Varsity Division 1, 2nd Board Champion), Sam Bell, Gabe Lezra and Geremy Webne-Behrman.

West's B team placed fifth overall, and includes team members Joe Swiggum, Adeyinka Lesi, Dennis Zuo, Casey Petrashek (who also won Varsity Division 1, 4th Board Champion) and Kenny Casados.

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