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No losers in chess tourney (Arizona Silver Belt)

There will be no losers in the chess tournament being played at Charles Bejarano Elementary School.

“They're all winners,” said Larry Guerrero, their volunteer chess instructor who took over the Chess Club when two previous volunteers' jobs required them to give it up.

“Just by being here playing chess, learning the moves, learning to strategize, think several moves ahead, they're all winning,” Guerrero explained. “It's not so important that there be a winner,” he continued, “but that they compete, play the game with one another. That's how they learn.

At play: Elementary school kids take to chess (Tucson Citizen, AZ)

An hour before school starts, students at Lauffer Middle School are breaking out boards and setting up pieces in Wesley Yandell's classroom.

"I see, I see, I see . . ." Juan Romano, 12, said as he contemplated a move Yandell made against his bishop.

Yandell's students are among Tucson schoolchildren who show up early, stay late and take time out of other activities to play chess.

MH chess teams collect wins (Baxter Bulletin, AR)

In the first year of their organization, students from the Mountain Home Chess Team participated in a tournament May 2 at the North Central Arkansas Educational Services Cooperative in Melbourne. Teams were comprised of students from grades seven-12.

The seventh- through ninth-grade team ranked third in the competition, and the 10th- through 12th-grade team ranked fifth. Each team member played five matches before a clear winner was declared. Trophies were awarded to the first-place team in each division.

Individual trophies were awarded to the top five winners. Pinkston Middle School seventh-grader Forrest Lowery placed first among 36 students in the seventh- through ninth-grade division by winning four of his matches and getting a draw in one match.

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