Chess rules!
Better brush up on your gambits before taking on these winning youngsters
By Jimmie Covington
February 18, 2007
Memphis, CommercialAppeal.com
About 70 youngsters from across DeSoto County spent much of Saturday plotting strategies and making moves and counter moves.
“She won; she got me good,” said Gabrielle Henry, 9, shortly after she lost a match to Jasmine Liev, 10, at Horn Lake Intermediate School’s Rookie Rally II Scholastic Chess Tournament.
Jasmine said, “It was like a four-move checkmate.”
Standing with the youngsters, Jasmine’s dad, Joe Daltow, said, “She gets me on that one every time, too. I still don’t know how to block it.”
Jasmine, a fifth-grader at Olive Branch Intermediate School, said she has been playing for about four years. Gabrielle, a fourth-grader at Horn Lake Intermediate, has been playing for at least two years.
“I love chess,” Gabrielle said. “It is just a really fun game.”
Gabrielle’s mom, Bridget Lockwood, said, “She plays with her grandpaw and her dad, and she beats her dad a lot of the times. She beats me pretty bad, too.”
The full article can be read here.
