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Chess In the Media

Schoolmates: Match seen for schools, chess (St. Louis Post-Dispatch, MO)

It began, for Richard Pack, at a YMCA in Jersey City. A seventh-grader, he was, by his own admission, an indifferent student on the path to dropping out.

At the YMCA, he seated himself before a chess board one day knowing nothing about the game, never imagining where it would lead.

Early this month, Pack stood at a microphone and told the St. Louis School Board about Scruggs Elementary School, where he once worked as a guidance counselor.

West Junior High captures chess title (Deseret News, UT)

Chess players from Salt Lake City's West Junior High/Extended Learning Program swept the top five individual places to capture West's sixth straight Utah State Junior High School Chess Championship for its division.

West won for the large-school division in the tourney, held at the University of Utah. Dixon Middle School, Provo, won the small-school team division. South Jordan Middle School and Hillcrest Junior High took second and third in the large-school division, while Glendale and Hillel took second and third in the small-school division. More than 150 students from 20 schools participated in the seven-round, two-day tournament.

Hopewell pupils master aspects of chess (Taunton Gazette, MA)

While most 8-year-old kids' ideal Saturday afternoons include a trip to the park and a stop at the ice cream stand, third-grader Tim McGuire's ideal Saturday usually ends in a "checkmate."

Tim is a member of Hopewell Elementary School's new chess program, where students use strategies and problem solving skills and learn to play chess from a ranked chess master.

"It is an academic way to get kids involved," said Anne Dobrowski, second grade teacher and one of the program's coordinators. "Students are problem solving and learning without even knowing it."

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