Young chess players take home wins, value lessons
By: Layla Wilder
03/28/2007
Fairfax County students made destructive moves at the Virginia Scholastic Chess Association championship earlier this month to take several awards.
Although around for only three years, the team at Greenbriar West Elementary School won first place in the kindergarten to third-grade division and the kindergarten to fifth-grade division.
Bull Run Elementary School tied with Greenbriar for first place in the kindergarten to fifth-grade division.
Gary Connors, who coaches the Greenbriar West team, said he attributes the team’s success to the “smartness and determination of students in this area.” Connors, 54, has coached the team for the past three years.
In chess, unlike in other competitions, children have only themselves to blame for mistakes, and, despite “heartbreak and tears,” he said, his team performs well.
“I have a lot to work with,” said Bill Moore, chess coach at Bull Run Elementary School.
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