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Giant chess scaled down (Marin Independent Journal, CA)

Giant chess is shrinking in Mill Valley.

No longer is the behemoth 16-by-16-foot chess board - the object of unrelenting criticism from a persistent group of opponents - being proposed for Lytton Square.

The board, which would be funded by private donations, has been reduced to 10 feet by 10 feet by chess proponent and Mill Valley civic leader John Cuttler, said Christine Sansome, director of the Parks and Recreation Department.

Chess league for kids starts (Ann Arbor News, MI)

Pint-sized chess players can prove just as formidable as their taller teenage counterparts when it comes to playing chess.

Just ask Ethan Shirley, 17, a student at Huron High School, who almost lost to a player 10 years his junior in the first round of the inaugural Ann Arbor Chess Academy tournament held Saturday morning at Soccer Blast on Longshore Drive in Ann Arbor. The Ann Arbor Chess Academy is a fledgling chess league.

"These kids are amazing,'' Shirley, a member of the Huron High School chess club, said of the younger players participating in the tournament.

Chess Grandmaster to challenge UNL's best (News Net Nebraska)

Miron Sher coached Russia's elite national chess team. He holds a masters degree in coaching chess. He is among the world's 500 or so chess Grandmasters. Now he wants to play 20 of the best chess opponents Lincoln and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln have to offer. He wants to play those opponents all at once!

Grandmaster Sher will play a simultaneous chess exhibition against 20 opponents at UNL's Student Union on Tuesday, June 27th. Open to the public, the 6:00 p.m.event will feature Sher moving from board to board while playing 20 opponents at the same time.

The UNL College of Education & Human Sciences and the UNL Chess Club are hosting the event.

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