CHESS CLUB BRINGS YOUNG, OLD TO RED BANK
By DUSTIN RACIOPPI
Anyone out there who knew that Red Bank has a chess school and club raise your hand. Anybody who knew Red Bank has a USCF-rated chess school and club keep your hands up.
Anybody who knows what USCF stands for, you need not read any further, because you probably already know that 51 Monmouth Street plays home to Monmouth Chess School and Club, a place where a 40-year-old can match up against a 12-year-old and shake hands after a mind-crunching bout on the board.
Sharing space with the Community YMCA, the club has taken residence at the Y-owned brick building for more than a year, offering instruction, small tournaments and meetings to simply talk about chess, and on Saturday held its second open tournament of champions.
It happened with little fanfare and, of course, little noise beyond the clacking of chess pieces and the quick snap of a hand hitting a timer.
Players milled around or looked in on other matches while other competitors dueled on the chessboard.
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Chess is thriving there.