Helping Kids Make the Right Moves
Charles Man on Mission To Take Chess to Schools
By Michael Tunison
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, November 26, 2006; Page SM03
It was a rare sight — some might call it a minor miracle — to have 52 grade-school kids sitting quietly on a Saturday morning playing chess, but that was the scene for several hours last weekend at a Charles County school.
In the auditorium of Milton M. Somers Middle School in La Plata, students representing nearly half of the county’s 20 elementary schools turned out for the Charles County Chess Corner.
For most of the past decade, Port Tobacco resident Felix Cummings has barnstormed the county, starting chess programs at elementary, middle and high schools, holding weekly chess sessions and organizing occasional chess tournaments. He visits churches and community centers to foster interest in the game. In September, he set up a row of chessboards at the Charles County Fair and somehow got children to sit down and compete for prizes with the kings and knights and pawns.
Cummings has become Charles’s one-man purveyor and propagator of youth chess.
“This past week alone, I visited 10 schools to check out how their chess program was going,” he said as he was setting up for the tournament last week.
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Charles Man? Isnt that the guy that killed Sharon Tate and her family?
How could you make a comment like that anon
A good barbeque lunch day at the beach in Hervey Bay Australia…were I set up a giant chess set the women cooked a typical Aussie barbeque..quite a few people around lots of young children running around playing ball,swimming,building sand castles etc..having a good time….within a few minutes there was around 30 kids aged between 3 and 11 around the giant chess set…asking lot’s of questions…most of them never saw or heard of chess…within an hour parents moved their camps around near the set..at one time I counted around 60 or so around the set…10 to 20 kids playing with the pieces at the same time….I just made one rule keep all the pieces on the board at all times…these young ones now with some parent advice played for nearly 3 hours….no one really knew how to play but all had a lot of fun…a great chess afternoon at Hervey Bay beach with a great bunch of kids being the winners…
PS: it certainly was not a quite game
Very good job Felix Cummings
a super effort from you congratulations