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Chess, anyone? 45 kids show up (Idaho Mountain Express, ID)

Five rounds of chess kept kids busy July 27 during the Midsummer Open Chess Tournament sponsored by the Blaine County School District and county Recreation District.

Action took place at The Community Campus in Hailey. There were 44 children from the Wood River Valley and one 12th-grade boy on vacation from Bozeman, Mont. Giving lessons was Norman Friedman, a local chess expert.

Format was five rounds of Swiss System beginning at 9:30 a.m. and ending at 2 p.m. with one tie-breaking game between Jonah Olson and Connor Lohrke. Beginners and more practiced players took part.

Chess champs at Central Catholic - 'Chess makes better students' says principal (South Texas Catholic, TX)

Two Central Catholic Elementary School students came out winners after using their best strategies in an international chess competition this summer.

Third-grader Georgia Olvera, 8, and fifth-grader Kelliinez Lopez, 11, took home trophies from the Susan Polgar World Open Chess Championship for Girls in Las Vegas June 17 and 18.

Georgia, who is returning to Central Catholic as a fourth grader, won the under-10 age division in the blitz competition. Kelliinez, who is starting sixth grade at Bishop Garriga Middle Preparatory School, took seventh place in the under-13 age division of regular play.

Teenage chess king making all the right moves (Herald News, NJ)

At 15, Emilio Cordova is an accomplished world traveler, a champion chess player and has nothing less in his sights than the top of the world.

Cordova, the youngest International Master chess player in his home country of Peru, has been in Clifton for the last three weeks, staying with his friend, Mario Moreno, 27, who was also born in Peru.

On Friday, Cordova was honored at the Peruvian consulate in Paterson as part of the Peruvian Independence Day celebrations that occurred over the weekend. The same day, he also learned that a New Jersey benefactor would pay for him to travel to Chicago to participate in the U.S. Open of chess in Oakland, Ill.

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