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'Chess Champs: An Island's Pride' to premiere September 9 - Penobscot Bay Press
Penobscot Bay Press
Penobscot Bay Press
Admission is free and everyone is invited. This 90-minute documentary by local filmmaker Veronica Young follows the 2012-13 season of the most successful scholastic chess program in Maine state history. Funding came from donations through a multi-year ...
'Chess Champs: An Island's Pride' to premiere September 9 - Penobscot Bay Press
Penobscot Bay Press
Penobscot Bay Press
Admission is free and everyone is invited. This 90-minute documentary by local filmmaker Veronica Young follows the 2012-13 season of the most successful scholastic chess program in Maine state history. Funding came from donations through a multi-year ...
Community and cultural events in the District, Sept. 8-15, 2016 - Washington Post
Washington Post
Chess for kids Weekly instruction for all ages of children who want to learn how to play the game or play with better strategy in tournaments, chess instructor teaches how to think, plan your next move and use your brain power to win, made possible by ...
On Chess: U.S. team poised for possible gold at the chess Olympiad - St. Louis Public Radio
St. Louis Public Radio
St. Louis Public Radio
Akobian is in frequent rotation as the Resident Grandmaster at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis, and his best accomplishment is as the U.S. Championship runner-up in 2014. On Chess is provided by the Chess Club and Scholastic Center ...
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America's Young Chess Champs - Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal
Meanwhile, the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis, founded by retired investment banker and philanthropist Rex Sinquefield, has formed a partnership with Ascension, the largest nonprofit health system in the U.S., to form the Your Move ...
Chess Notes - The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe
Sadly, it's September and the end of summer is here. As the kids are heading back to school, the Massachusetts Chess Association's scholastic program begins. MACA's goal is to find scholastic champions in the age groups — 8 and under, 11 and under ...
Summer Knights breaks attendance record - Madison Record
Madison Record
MADISON – Setting an attendance record, 70 students entered the Summer Knights Scholastic Chess Tournament on Aug. 27. Sponsored by CB&S Bank, Summer Knights was held at Heritage Elementary School and marked the first back-to-school chess ...
Back to school chess and who will be the Alabama state chess champion? - AL.com
AL.com
AL.com
Summer Knights Scholastic Chess Tournament, Heritage Elementary in Madison, set a new record for back to school chess. Many of these young players played and studied hard for the tournament as it was good practice before the Alabama state ...
Registration open for third annual Lakecity Chess Tournament - Williams Lake Tribune
Williams Lake Tribune
The tournament, scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 15, will house up to 40 players who will compete on the ancient battlefield. Youth players will play in a Scholastic tournament alongside an Open Tournament. Trophies and gift certificates will be awarded to ...
On Chess: Bringing the game to the classroom - St. Louis Public Radio
St. Louis Public Radio
St. Louis Public Radio
Last year, the scholastic department of Chess Club and Scholastic Center offered chess instruction to more than 50 schools in the St. Louis area, which translated to more than 900 chess classes taking place over the 2015-16 academic year. In addition ...
On Chess: Bringing the game to the classroom - St. Louis Public Radio
In addition to a place for enjoying chess, the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis is an educational institution doing work both inside the.
Community and cultural events in the District, Sept. 1 to 8, 2016 - Washington Post
Washington Post
Learn to play chess For all ages. Learn the basics, improve your strategy or practice your moves with other players. Thursdays and Tuesdays at 6 p.m. Deanwood Library, 1350 49th St. NE. deanwoodlibrary@dc.gov. 202-698-1175. Free. Music on the lawn ...
Tom Wolfe on Language and Evolution - Discovery Institute
Discovery Institute
Discovery Institute
Human beings and cultures that lack universal grammar and recursion still have the active potency (first actuality, to use a scholastic term) to use human language that entails universal grammar and recursion, but do not necessarily or always exercise ...
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“Chess Champs” film in Deer Isle - The Ellsworth American
The Ellsworth American
DEER ISLE — Dick Powell, the coach who led Deer Isle-Stonington school chess players to a record number of Maine state triumphs, is featured in the documentary “Chess Champs: An Island's Pride.” The film will premiere at the Reach Performing Arts ...
Chess notes - The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe
In any case, he certainly has put a lot of time, effort, and money into chess. It's not just the money but underlying philosophy that is the most important feature of the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis. My visit there made it very ...
SPICE welcomes three National Scholastic Champions to team - Webster Journal
Webster Journal
The Webster University Chess Team is adding six freshman this year, bringing the total roster to 25 players: five are from the United States. Former Lindenwood University player, Grandmaster (GM) Priyadharshan Kannappan, is from India. The U.S. Chess ...
Congressman Rick Allen visits Swainsboro Elementary to learn about Scholastic Chess Club - WTOC
WTOC
Congressman Rick Allen visited Swainsboro Elementary on Thursday to learn about a new pilot program that teaches Scholastic Chess to elementary, middle, and high school students. Congressman Allen visited a third-grade classroom to talk about the ...
On Chess: Jeffery Xiong, World Junior Champion, shows the bright future of U.S. chess - St. Louis Public Radio
St. Louis Public Radio
St. Louis Public Radio
Over the years, Jeffery has spent a lot of time at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis and has improved his game to the level that chess fans wonder whether he will occupy the fourth board of the U.S. Olympiad team one day. He captured ...
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DC community calendar, Aug. 25-Sept. 1 2016 - Washington Post
Washington Post
Chess for kids Weekly instruction for children who want to learn how to play the game or play with better strategy in tournaments. Chess instructor teaches how to think, plan next moves ... Learn to play chess For all ages; learn to play the game ...
Williamson County library events: Aug. 24–30 - The Tennessean
The Tennessean
Scholastic Chess Club: 4:30-5:45 p.m. Friday, Aug. 26. Ages 7-12. Class fee: $10. Two on-site chess coaches from the Nashville Chess Center will teach beginning, intermediate and advanced strategies. Every child is welcome, no matter their skill chess ...
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