by Josh Burger | Nov 28, 2016 | Kids & Family, News, Stories, Teachers
Raydell Lacey’s chess club Chess Moves Against Violence is just the beginning of strategic action toward ending violence. A September 2016 chess tournament was the brainchild of Lacey, a chess parent who lost her grandson to senseless gun violence. Raydell shares, “My...
by Raphael | Jul 8, 2014 | How to, Kids & Family, Teachers
Those letters and numbers along the margin of many chessboards are the coordinate system for naming the squares, commonly called “algebraic notation”. Chessboards for learning or competition often have letters and numbers along each side with 1-8 horizontal ranks and...
by Raphael | Apr 30, 2009 | News, Teachers
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...