Pupil wins national chess championship
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
PRINCETON TOWNSHIP — Princeton Day School fourth-grade pupil Joel Pena tied for first place in the United States Chess Federation K-12 Collegiate Nationals Championship held Dec. 7-9 in Houston.
Bonnie Waitzkin, who coordinates the PDS chess program, describes Joel as “a great competitor.”
“He loves to match wits with the best and works very, very hard to win,” said Waitzkin, whose son Josh inspired the film “Searching for Bobby Fischer.” “To be a national championship, a player needs great heart, as well as a quick mind, competitive experience and good training.”
Joel, who won fourth place at the national tournament last year, earned 6.5 out of 7 points to tie for first place among 169 fourth-graders across the country. He is coached by Jairo Moreira.
At PDS, chess is taught in kindergarten and first grade to help students develop problem-solving skills, anticipate consequences and have the flexibility to change their plans. The students practice checkmates and learn algebraic notation.
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Does Bonnie play chess? Who taught Josh chess?
Could there be a convention on this blog saying, preferably at the start of the piece, who the actual author is and what the source of the text is.
I don’t think that a link at the foot of the page gives enough recognition to the journalist who actually did the work and whose ‘prior art’ the text is.
See also the debate around the track/video by The Richter Scales entitled ‘Here comes another Bubble’ for a discussion of the concept of ‘fair use’.