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A school in the North Bay has become the only one in the country that has received international recognition for its chess program and how its teaching the game to a new generation.
The free curricular chess programming is new as of this school year, but P.S. 145 has hosted a paid after-school chess program for the past three years. The after- school program and chess curriculum ...
Dan Starbuck Pelletier is the owner of Dig USA Chess, a local tutoring company that helps kids get ready for competitions.
The CHESS acronym stands for “Cops Helping Enhance Student Skills.” The program targets inner-city students and uses St. Louis-area police officers to teach them the game of chess.
Mizzou Chess Program coach and manager Cristian Chirilia practices with team captain Grigory Oparin on Tuesday, Jan. 30. After winning the 2024 Pan-American Intercollegiate Championship, the team is ...
FAIRVIEW LIBRARY — In many respects, the group’s members have little in common. They range in age from 3-and-a-half to 92 and speak a variety of different languages — Russian, Chinese ...
The founder says he was awarded $100,000 a year for three years to run a nonprofit comprehensive program for kids featuring a variety of programs, including chess.
ASAP is holding a free-week long program that will teach girls in Philadelphia schools how to play chess.
Mariangel Vargas Gomez, 11, had never played chess before arriving in the city last year. She’s now ranked as one of the top 100 players in the country among girls her age.
The game of chess can be intimidating, but not for 14-year-old Marco Baldwin, who lives in Humboldt Park.