Connecticut: Chess club growing by one member a month
By Jacqueline Manning
01/25/2007
PLYMOUTH – On every second Wednesday of each month, books are not the main tools catalyzing brainpower in a group of elementary and middle school students that come to visit the Terryville Public Library after school.
Instead, the young minds strategically vie to overtake their opponent’s 16 warriors in the mental battle of chess.
Children’s Librarian Gretchen Durley said the interest in chess clubs has been on the rise around the country.
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Illinois: Four perfect scores Saturday in middle school chess challenge
ROCKFORD REGISTER STAR
POPLAR GROVE — Four players turned in perfect scores Saturday at the Rockford Chess Challenge Winter match at North Boone Middle School.
Three players with a perfect score were from King School in Rockford, and the fourth was from the Home School Co-op program at Hallstrom School in Rockford.
Those with perfect scores were Sam Rinaldo of King in third grade, Neil Mediratta and Nathaniel Westholder, both of King, who shared the fifth-grade title, and seventh-grader Justin McDonald of Hallstrom.
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