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April 30, 2009

Bellevue chess champs: kids play NASA astronaut

Stevenson's school chess club in Bellevue Washington is no ordinary chess team: The kids are the reigning national champions of the elementary chess circuit - so good that they were selected last year to play a much-publicized, virtual game of chess with NASA astronaut Gregory Chamitoff, which began while he was in orbit on the international space station. Read the full article published in the Seattle Times.

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