Just recently, a friend of mine came to me with a question. This friend had been hired to babysit for a relative, though she didn't really know what she was doing. She said, "What would you say would be some good activities for the child?...
During a class after explaining how chess ratings work, a second grade boy raises his hand and says very seriously, "I don’t want to get a chess rating…because I want to be a professional hockey player." In one scholastic ev...
I've been involved in scholastic chess for many years and have seen the benefits of seeing chess promoted in the schools. I was a coach and trainer at Alexander Central High School in Taylorsville, NC, and it won the state championship three y...
