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Flagstaff students excel at AZ State Chess Championships - Arizona Education News Service
Arizona Education News Service
This past weekend, at the 2016 Arizona State Scholastic Chess Championships, students from all over Flagstaff played some of their best chess of the year. The 2016 AZ State Chess Championships were held in Tucson, Arizona over the weekend of April 23, ...
On Chess: Ultimate blitz chess match results in ultimate generosity - St. Louis Public Radio
St. Louis Public Radio
The Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis would like to thank the over 1 million viewers who watched over 15 million minutes of chess over the past 20 days. Your support is what reinforces Saint Louis as the Chess Capital of the nation ...
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Fabiano Caruana wins US Chess Championship at the first attempt - Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.uk
Fabiano Caruana has won the US Championship at the first attempt. The 23 year old ended a point clear of the field, although his victory was in doubt until well into a tense eleventh and final round at the Chess Club and Scholastic Centre of St Louis.
DAVID R. SANDS: With Krush crush, Paikidze wins chess crown the hard way - Washington Times
Washington Times
Paikidze broke through in dramatic fashion, defeating seven-time women's champ GM Irina Krush in the 11th and final round at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St. Louis last month to clinch the title. Against Krush, Black's aggressiveness is ...
Christopher Macchio puts fresh spin on classical sound - Cherry Hill Courier Post
Cherry Hill Courier Post
Cherry Hill Courier Post
With grades that could have gotten him into Harvard or Princeton and all the right check marks on his scholastic resume — chess club, debate team, summer physics camp — there was just one thing standing between Christopher Macchio and a high school ...
Immortal Chess Blitz Game - Huffington Post
Huffington Post
Huffington Post
Wesley So won a spectacular blitz game at the Ultimate Blitz Challenge in the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis last Friday. It was power chess with hard to see threats and surprising sacrifices. He was immediately compared to two of the ...
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Reader feedback - BusinessWorld Online Edition
BusinessWorld Online Edition
The Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis took over the organization of the annual US Chess Championship in 2009 and, coincidentally enough, since that time the title has been monopolized by Hikaru Nakamura (2009, 2012 and 2015) and Gata ...
BFMS Chess Team finishes season as co-champions - Franklin News Post
Franklin News Post
During the school year, the BFMS team won three other local tournaments outright and placed 9th in the state at the Virginia Scholastic Chess Championships held in March in Ashburn. McGrady finished in first place at the Star City Challenge tournament ...
Local students compete in chess tournament - Bakersfield Now
Bakersfield Now
Bakersfield Now
(KBAK/KBFX) — Kids from all over Kern County showed off their strategic skill in the yearly Scholastic chess tournament at Valley Oaks Charter School. More than 150 students from 35 schools registered to compete in the tournament Saturday, the winners ...
Kern's young chess masters battle clock, opponents to become kings - The Bakersfield Californian
The Bakersfield Californian
The Bakersfield Californian
They wore T-shirts with battle-ready slogans reading “#gameon,” ”Combat Mode,” and “Choose Your Weapon,” but in the end 179 students from Shafter to Bakersfield who took part in the annual Kern County Scholastic K-12 Chess Tournament on Saturday ...
USC-BED coaches express dismay at losing scholarships - Sun.Star
Sun.Star
USC-Bed revoked the scholarship in all elementary teams and four secondary sports--badminton, chess, scrabble and gymnastics. Track and ... He said that there will be a big difference in the team and it will really affect their campaign in the ...
High School Report for May 1, 2015 - The News Journal
The News Journal
The News Journal
The Novice Guard was named Independent Class Champions, the Intermediate Guard was named Scholastic Class Champions and the Drumline was named Scholastic Intermediate Class Champions. This weekend they return from Wildwood, N.J., where they competed in ...
Local students excel at state chess championships - Arizona Daily Sun
Arizona Daily Sun
The weekend of April 23-24, at the 2016 Arizona State Scholastic Chess Championships in Tucson, students from all over Flagstaff played some of their best chess of the year. Each of Killip Elementary School's teams were in the running for state champs ...
St. Louisan crowned U.S. chess champion - St. Louis Business Journal
St. Louis Business Journal
St. Louis Business Journal
Chess Grandmaster Fabiano Caruana, who recently bought a house in St. Louis, is attracting international attention to his adopted hometown after winning the U.S. chess championship this week at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis.
A Chess Renaissance in the Midwest - The New Yorker
The New Yorker
The New Yorker
... the largest chess piece in the world (a fourteen-foot-and-seven-inch-tall queen), sitting outside the World Chess Hall of Fame, which moved to St. Louis in 2011, three years after the opening of the six-thousand-square-foot Chess Club and ...
So finishes 2nd overall in US Chess Championship - The Manila Times
The Manila Times
Filipino Grandmaster (GM) Wesley So finished second overall in the prestigious 2016 US Chess Championship held at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis in Missouri, US. So scored 7.5 points on four wins and seven draws – just a full point ...
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Thursday Briefing: Community Cats Calling, Inspired Mic, Flagler Beach Sign Forest, Obama's Lost Narrative - FlaglerLive.com
FlaglerLive.com
April 30: The Jacksonville Chess Club hosts the Spring Scholastic Series chess tournament from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at San Jose Church of Christ, 6233 San Jose Blvd, Jacksonville. time controls set at 30 minutes for each player with a 5 sec delay (4SS G/30 ...
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New US Chess Champion Is Proud to Call St. Louis Home - Riverfront Times (blog)
Riverfront Times (blog)
Riverfront Times (blog)
Born in the United States, Caruana originally moved to Italy around age 12 to improve his chess game. But he says he missed home, and since in the intervening decade the U.S. chess presence has grown, he headed back. He bought a house in St. Louis ...
SLU looks to challenge SPICEWebster Journal
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Weekly Calendar - Village News Online
Village News Online
Learn basics of safety on the water in this Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries overview. MEADOWDALE LIBRARY SPRING CHESS TOURNAMENT – 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. Meadowdale Library. The Virginia Scholastic Chess Association presents ...
It's puppy time - Chesterfield Observer (subscription)
Chesterfield Observer (subscription)
Spring Chess Tournament, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Meadowdale Library, 4301 Meadowdale Blvd. The Virginia Scholastic Chess Association presents a K-12 Scholastic Chess Tournament. Registration required. $7-$20. vschess.org. Home Buyers Fair, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., ...