Chess players share strategies

Chess enthusiast shares decades of strategies
By Jennifer Meyer, Times Staff Writer
04/13/2007

Brainy battles raged at the La Vista Public Library recently as crackerjack chess player Bob Woodworth clarified the basics of this cerebral game of combat for eager young warriors.

At the first of four Saturday afternoon sessions arranged by librarian Joni Wilder ,Woodworth taught his students about the chess pieces and terrain – 64 squares with white on the right, pawns posted on second row squares serving as foot soldiers to the battlefield’s elite, a medieval army replete with queen, king, bishops, knights and rooks.

“Remember, the king is the most important,” Woodworth told his students. “You lose the king, you lose the game.” Woodworth, a resident of Ralston, learned to play chess at age 12.

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