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Local girls win state championships
Area teens score big at state chess championshipBy Jennifer JiggettsThe Virginian-PilotMarch 3, 2012 Two area teenagers won top honors at the Virginia Queens’ State Championship at Norfolk State University on Saturday. Granby High School student Katya Lifshits, 17, won the Virginia Rated Girls’ State title, according to a news release. Home-schooled Virginia Beach 11th-grader Elizabeth […]
For kids, it’s all about chess
For kids, it’s all about chessBy Lia RussellCorrespondent NICE Moves with Susan Polgar Ask most young people what they enjoy doing that’s “free, fun and funky,” and you probably don’t expect to hear “chess.” But a local initiative describes the strategic board game in just that way, and it has children flocking to Lamberts Point […]
FREE all-girl chess tourney to be held at Norfolk State University
All-girl chess tourney to be held at Norfolk State University International chess grandmaster Susan Polgar will lend her support to girls chess and the inaugural Virginia Queens All-Girl Championships. The Norfolk Initiative for Chess Excellence will hold the state’s first all-girl chess scholarship championships on March 3 at Norfolk State University. The top two girls […]
Kicking off Women’s History Month with FREE events in Norfolk, VA
Susan Polgar will Kick-off Women’s History Month in Norfolk, Virginia Two days of events: MARCH 2nd – (a Friday) Chrysler Museum of Art will host International Grandmaster, 1st woman to break the gender barrier in chess, Susan Polgar from 3-5 p.m. Polgar will speak on making history in chess, perform a 15-person simultaneous match (5 […]
I made a promise to be there and kept it
Pitbull attack could not get her off her game today She was playing with the family dog, a pitbull, and was bitten in the face. She said to me, “It was all my own fault for scaring the dog,” as she arrived late for the start of our weekly session at Lamberts Point Community Center […]
Launching the NSU Chess Club
NSU Chess Club’s Opening Night from Lisa Suhay on Vimeo. Guided by Dr. Yuri Barnakov and Club President Olu Bamiduro the Norfolk State University opened its doors for the first time on 11.18.11 as part of the run-up to the march Virginia Queens’ State Championship to be held at NSU with GM Susan Polgar. See […]
NSU SPICE
Tonight was Norfolk State University President Dr. Tony Atwater’s student forum. He challenged those who attended to give him “the good, the bad and the ugly.” One of NSU’s chess players decided to blaze the trail for the formation of a club while Dr. Arthur Bowman of the STEM program brought it home with talk […]