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Youngsters take on the adults at Chess on the Square (Belleville News-Democrat, PA)

Nearly three dozen youngsters matched wits and plotted strategy Saturday during the first annual Chess on the Square.

They also took on the 28 adult participants, and some of them won.

Governor French Academy and the St. Clair Chess Club sponsored the tournament, which coincided with the end of the school's week-long chess camp. Chess masters Aviv Friedman of New York and Craig Stauffer of Terre Haute, Ind., who were chess camp instructors, took part in the event, too.

Chess buffs pit wits against tourney rivals (Stockton Record, CA)

The M.K. Troke Library on Saturday played host to dozens of competitors doing battle with pawns, rooks, knights and bishops in a battle of wits decided over one of the world's oldest and most popular games.

The 60 participants in Saturday's chess tournament encompassed all ages and abilities, from wise experts who studied the board in front of them before every move to novices who still had to seek clarification on the game's rules from tournament organizers.

"What you do is train to be creative on the board," said Michael DaCruz, 46, who said he has played chess since childhood. "It rules my life; ... everything I think I compare it to chess boards."

Youngsters test their skills in monthly chess contest (TCPalm, FL)

Billy Koster, 13, enjoys the strategies you can employ in chess, he said.

"I like pinning him down (to checkmate)," the Palm Beach Gardens teen said.

Koster was among 35 to 40 youngsters from Miami north to Stuart who participated recently in the second 2006 Junior Chess Championship, which kicked off in May.

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