Lovejoy High hosts regional chess championship
By Conner Hammett
Published: Wednesday, January 5, 2011 8:03 PM CST
Lovejoy High School’s chess team is inviting players from all over Northeast Texas to compete in the Region III Scholastic Chess Championships Jan. 15.
The team is also inviting Grandmaster Susan Polgar, five-time Chess Olympiad gold medalist and winner of four World Championships. Polgar broke the gender barrier in 1986 by becoming the first female player to qualify for the Men’s World Championship.
The event will also allow players to try out a 30-minute chess problem-solving competition developed by Polgar and Texas Tech that will be a pilot program for elementary and middle school students at next year’s University Interscholastic League competition.
“This is news-making, because if UIL takes on this endeavor of including chess as one of their sports, it’s going to change how certain things are regulated as well as the promotion of chess itself — beyond the board game,” said Tricia Dobson, coordinator for Sport of the Mind, Lovejoy High School’s chess team.
The championship is expected to draw 200 to 250 students from around the region, Dobson said. Nine sections, divided into Primary, Elementary, Middle School and High School divisions…
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It was a great event.