My sister Kate taught me how to play on the computer

Outstanding kids: Chess champion, and almost seven
By Kelley Scarsbrook, Surrey Now
September 7, 2010

WHITE ROCK – Don’t let the blond hair and big blue eyes fool you – beneath Luke Pulfer’s good looks and soft-spoken voice lies a sharp chess player who could beat most adults in a heartbeat.

Luke, who will turn seven in October, is a child prodigy in chess. What started out as a way to entertain himself and his older sister, Kate, on the computer when he was four-and-a-half soon took a very different turn.

“My sister Kate taught me how to play on the computer,” said Luke with a smile. “And I really liked it.”

His immediate liking of the game was noticed by his mom, Julie Domovich, when he started beating the computer.

“We really had no idea of his talent until one day his father and I realized that every game he played he was winning. That’s when we got out a chessboard and played against him ourselves – and discovered he could beat us,” said Domovich with a laugh.

It was soon apparent that if Luke wanted to pursue chess beyond game playing in the house, he was going to need a teacher.

That’s when Domovich reached out to the White Rock Library and a man named Henry Sikorski, who runs the White Rock Chess Club.

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