By natalie dicou
The Salt Lake Tribune
Updated Apr 24, 2011 01:20AM
West Valley City • Jaxson Bailey knows exactly what he loves about chess.
“You get to kill your friends without actually killing them in real life,” said the West Lake Junior High eighth-grader, moments after collecting the first-place trophy at the initial Community Education Partnership of West Valley City (CEP) Chess Tournament.
Krista LeFevre enjoys the game for different reasons.
“I like being able to think hard and work really hard at winning,” said the Farnsworth Elementary sixth-grader as she clutched her second-place trophy.
Whatever their reason for loving the game with 64 black and white squares, 122 students from across West Valley City met last week at West Lake Junior High to showcase their chess skills and inaugurate a tradition.
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WTG SLC!
Good luck with that. The chess club in my daughter’s school has only a handful of members and I don’t think a single member other than her wants to learn about chess. They think that if they know how the pieces move, they know it all.