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Council moves on giant chess issue (Marin Independant Journal, CA)

Coming soon to Mill Valley's downtown Lytton Square will be two mock-ups of giant chess boards.

The Mill Valley City Council, after hearing from more than three dozen people adamantly opposed to giant chess in the square, decided Monday night that they did not have enough information to make a decision. So they directed staffers to construct one board of 16 by 16 feet and another 12 by 12, at the southern end of the plaza, so they could see just what giant chess looks like.

"I don't think we have enough information to make a decision," said Vice Mayor Christopher Raker. Mayor Anne B. Solem was absent due to illness.

Give chess a chance, promoter says (Indianapolis Star, IN)

The largest chess school in Queens -- by all accounts, the only chess school in Queens -- is on the ground floor of an apartment building off a gridlocked stretch of asphalt in Forest Hills.

It is called the Polgar Chess Center, and, according to the sign outside, it is the Home of the Four-Time Women's World Champion and the Five-Time Olympic Champion, which could be construed as ever-so-slightly hyperbolic, since: a) Susan Polgar does not actually live here, and b) chess is not actually an Olympic sport.

This last is not Polgar's fault. No one would like to see chess sanctioned by the International Olympic Committee more than Polgar. Until then, her claims remain technically true, since Polgar has indeed won five medals as a participant in the Olympics of chess, an event that just happens to be entirely separate from the "mainstream" Olympics, if only because a large segment of the world population considers chess a sport in the way it considers competitive trigonometry a sport.

Chess players make their move at tourney (Press & Sun-Bulletin, NY)

There is no element of chance in chess, said Tim McLallen, secretary of the Tri-Cities Chess Club. It's always the same board, the same pieces and the same rules. The only way to win, he said, is to outplay your opponent.

"It attracts people that like a mental challenge," McLallen of Binghamton said.

About 10 people gathered Saturday at the Holiday Inn on the Vestal Parkway for the first nationally rated chess tournament in the club's three-year history. The tournament, which was certified by the United State Chess Federation, offered $500 in prizes.

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