Champion High School Chess Team Tries To Defend Title
March 02, 2007
This weekend, a group of high school students from Brooklyn are traveling upstate to defend their title as the best chess teams in the country. NY1’s Cheryl Wills filed the following report.
Whether you call them geeks, oddballs, or geniuses — this quirky group of teens are to high school chess what Michael Jordan is to basketball: there is no one better.
“It’s exhilarating, I mean you just get to be in the spotlight like this all the time,” said Mikhail Furman, a chess player at Edward R. Murrow High School.
And members from Edward R. Murrow High School’s chess team are in the spotlight year after year.
Since 2004, they have successfully defended their title as National High School Champs — beating the best teen chess players in the country.
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Good job kids!