Wichita nonprofit uses chess to help local youth build life skills

Masters and Mentors takes the strategy of chess and turns it into life lessons. They use a chess-based cognitive development ...
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JCPS chess program aims to help student in and out of the classroom

EFFECT ON JULY 1ST. WELL, SOME OFHE T COUNTRY’S BEST CHSES PLAYERS LEARNED THE GAME AS STUDENTS AT JEFRSFEON COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS. IT’S PART OF AN AFTER-SCHOOL ...
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'It's all about saving lives': Man teaches chess to help reduce youth street violence

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - A local man said he can reduce violence on our streets by teaching the game of chess. Charles Wiley founded a youth group that mentors young men. He’s on a mission to teach tactics ...
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Webster University president and chess aficionado Julian Z. Schuster shares the benefits of the game for children of all ages

Growing up in the former Yugoslavia, it was pretty much a given that Julian Z. Schuster would learn to play chess at an early age. Most children did. “It was embarrassing if you didn’t,” he says. Now ...
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Making every move count. How chess can help youths make good choices

About nine months ago Lenard Seawood started the Every Move Counts nonprofit startup to use the game of chess to help improve the lives of children in Stockton. When he was in the Army, stationed in ...
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This AI chess engine aims to help human players rather than defeat them

Artificial intelligence has become so good at chess that its only competition now comes from other computer programs. Indeed, a human hasn’t defeated a machine in a chess tournament in 15 years. It’s ...