Good Moves An inner-city chess program is paying big dividends for disadvantaged children. by WENDI C. THOMAS The second-floor classroom at Douglass K-8 Optional School was so quiet, you could hear chess pieces slide across the board. Pairs of...
Memphis Girls’ defy stereotypes
Girls in Memphis chess program defy stereotypesBy ZACK MCMILLIN, The Commercial AppealPublished 12:03 pm, Sunday, February 23, 2014 MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — On a recent afternoon, in between her job as medical clerk at Germantown Methodist and the night...
Greater Memphis Chess Center doing brisk business
Master move: Greater Memphis Chess Center doing brisk businessBy Jonathan DevinMemphis Commercial AppealPosted February 9, 2011 at 11:05 p.m. Mark Beatty has one of the few places in town where nearly a hundred elementary school-aged children can gather and...
Mid-South Chess Camp
Mid-South Chess Camp 7th Annual Mid-South Chess Summer Camp is coming to Lausanne Collegiate School June 15th-20th, in Memphis Tennessee kicking off with a Chess Party at 5:00 pm on June 15th for campers, families, and friends at Elder...
63-63 OT
Free throw shooting woe finally caught up with Memphis. The Memphis Tigers missed three of four free throws in the final minute and Kansas’ Mario Chalmers drilled a 3-pointer to send the title game to overtime. They erased a...
It is just really a fun game
Chess rules! Better brush up on your gambits before taking on these winning youngsters By Jimmie CovingtonFebruary 18, 2007Memphis, CommercialAppeal.com About 70 youngsters from across DeSoto County spent much of Saturday plotting strategies and making moves and counter moves....