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Kids Increase Smarts by Playing Chess (Santa Clarita Valley Signal, CA)

Two kids sprawled out on the floor, taking turns playing a board game - most people have seen this before.

But what if the game they were playing was actually chess and the children were only in kindergarten?

That's exactly the case at Valencia Valley Elementary School, where dozens of elementary-school age children receive chess lessons after class through the California Youth Chess League.

'Chess isn't like life' (Concord Monitor, NH)

Tobias Loeser, 16, plays a game of chess at the Capitol City Chess Club in Bow. The German foreign exchange student at Bow High School said his chess rating translates to about 1,950 in the United States.

The rating places him slightly outside the top 100 players younger than 21 in the U.S. Chess Federation. He has been following the World Chess Championship under way in Elista, Russia.

"I started playing chess four years ago when my mom found an article in a local newspaper about a chess club winning some tournament in our area (of Germany). So I joined this club, and now I am the fifth-best player in that club."

Rooks, knights, kids fill library for tournament (Iowa City Press-Citizen, IA)

For Lukas and Soren Schmidt, it was a battle of attrition.

The brothers worked across the chess board, taking out the other's pieces one by one until finally, Lukas, 10, had beaten Soren, 6.

"This is my first tournament, so I'm excited," Lukas said of the eighth annual Kids' Chess Tournament at the Iowa City Public Library on Saturday. "When my brother and I (were drawn together), I was really amazed and weirded out. It was a fun match."

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