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Chess and Standard Test Scores

May 5 Articles, Scholastic Chess no comments

Chess and Standard Test Scores by James M. Liptrap Summary: Regular (non-honors) Elementary students who participated in a school chess club showed twice the improvement of non-chessplayers in Reading and Mathematics bet...

The Samford Fellowship Awards Featured in a NY Times Article

May 2 Articles no comments

The New York Times featured an article about the Samford Fellowship Awards. The article titled “Award Helps Young Players to Compete, and Pay the Bills” was written By Dylan Loeb McClain and Published on Apri...

What Is A School Chess Club?

April 14 Articles, Scholastic Chess no comments

A GUIDE TO SCHOLASTIC CHESS How to Tell if Your Child is Ready for Tournament Play (For Tips Click Here) This guide was created to help teachers and scholastic chess organizers who wish to begin, improve, or strengthen t...

Chess Goes to School

April 10 Articles, Scholastic Chess no comments

How, and Why, the Game Caught on Among Young Americans.By Ann Hulbert In January of 1958, three months after Sputnik triggered an educational panic in America much like today’s angst about the global talent race, a...

Is Chess 99% Tactics?

January 3 Articles, Community no comments

(RR) IS CHESS 99% TACTICS? According to Richard Teichmann this is the case..What do you think? Lets take a look at the following position: White to move. White wins with a remarkable Rook sacrifice! Try to find it…...

Can A Former World Champion Make An Illegal Move?

December 30 Articles no comments

Can a Former World Champion Make an Illegal Move? White: Karpov, Anatoli / Black: Chernin, Alexander / Tilburg Rapid 1992 Karpov just promoted his Pawn into a Queen and has only 10 seconds on his clock. Chernin on the ot...

Inspirational Chess Quotes for the Day – Here’s to Seeking...

November 29 Articles, News no comments

Congratulations again to Daniel Naroditsky whose creative talent landed him the Gold! “It is not a move, even the best move that you must seek, but a realizable plan” (Eugene Znosko-Borovsky) “Chess, li...

U.S. Women’s Chess Championship: Now and Then

November 24 Articles, News no comments

Frank K. Berry 2007 US Women’s Championship: IM Irina Krush became the 2007 US Women’s Champion. In the Spring of 1893, a few women met informally and organized the Women’s Chess Association of America....

A Chess Princess: Olga Capablanca

October 19 Articles

A MEMORY REDISCOVERED: OLGA, A CHESS PRINCESS I used to write a chess column for two spanish newspapers in New York City back in 1990-91. One of the articles that I wanted to write, was about Jose Raul Capablanca, who wa...

The Chess Player As An Artist – Marcel Duchamp

October 4 Articles, Community, News no comments

“…I HAVE COME TO THE PERSONAL CONCLUSION THAT WHILE ALL ARTISTS ARE NOT CHESS PLAYERS, ALL CHESS PLAYERS ARE ARTISTS.” MARCEL DUCHAMP BIOGRAPHY OF MARCEL DUCHAMP 1887-1968: Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp w...

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