All the right moves: SLHS seniors help chess team to 5th consecutive undefeated seasonThu, Jan 15, 2009 BY BRIAN KEILENSPRING LAKE — Despite a constant flow of different classes, sports and jobs, one thing has remained constant for high...
Mentoring Chess
Mentoring group organizes chess, checkers tournamentMonday, December 29, 2008By Claire Cummings What could be a better face-to-face mentoring opportunity than a good game of chess? Thomas Burke, an avid chess player and founder of Jackson’s annual Mentoring Awareness March,...
Thank you Michigan!
I spent the last 2 days in Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills, and Detroit to take part in a very special chess documentary. A part of it was done at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Everyone was so wonderful. The Academy...
Open Scholastic in Michigan
Open scholastic chess tournament detailsBY ALISON BERGSIEKER • DAILY PRESS & ARGUS • October 6, 2008 Students will play opponents based on grade level: K-2, 3-4, 5-6 and 7-8. No one will be eliminated. * What: A five-round, unrated...
Skidmore inducted into the Michigan Chess Hall of Fame
Check this out: Kearsley coach Mike Skidmore gets inducted into Chess Hall of Fameby RoNeisha Mullen The Flint JournalFriday September 19, 2008, 9:59 PM KEARSLEY, Michigan — It’s kind of like being knighted. But, it wasn’t great valor or...
A new record for SPNI
Ashley Carter has qualified to represent the state of Michigan for the 5th straight time next week at the 5th annual Susan Polgar National Invitational for Girls (which will take place at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, TX). That...
My favorite piece is the bishop
Chess contest sponsored by school draws hundredsMarch 21, 2008By Janna Odenthal Post-Tribune correspondent PORTAGE — While adults discussed the presidential races, children at the Portage Yacht Club recently focused on kings, queens and other members of royalty. Children and...
The Florida and Michigan Fiasco
What is the solution? What should be done? How would you handle this mess? Michigan Primary Trouble: The Final Snag?18 Mar 2008 04:04 pm The politics of this are crystal clear. The Obama campaign did not want a Michigan...
600+ compete in MSU
Published February 3, 2008[ From Lansing State Journal ]Grandmasters in the making: Kids compete in chess tourneyMSU championships draw 600-plus from Mich. elementariesYvette LanierLansing State Journal EAST LANSING – Joy Chen has made 60-year-olds cry during a game of...
Michigan chess news
Cheboygan hosts invitational chess tourney SaturdayBy MARK SPENCLEYTribune Staff Writer CHEBOYGAN – Chess players will have the chance to put their skills to the test on Saturday in the Cheboygan Area High School cafeteria during the ninth annual Cheboygan...