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Brainerd chess tournament registration begins

Brainerd chess tournament registration beginsBAXTER - Brainerd Area chess tournament will be held from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p...each K-12 team.Competitors are asked to bring their chess sets if possible, tournament style is preferred. For...

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Budding chess champs

...Jacob, Nick and Michael -- are budding chess champions. For the first time at Pillager...school sent students to the elementary state chess tournament April 13-14 at Sibley High...sixth-grader, who represented their school at the chess tournament. The three boys all placed...

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Neighbors

...your objective is to just survive."For a year now, Devon has attended school using "VGo," a robot shaped a little like a chess pawn and best known for its appearance in a Verizon television ad showing the kind of technology possible using the company's...

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World class drama, world class blues

...Cotton and Jr. Wells, who started with Ellis McDaniels in Chicago in 1955, where they created the "Bo Diddley" sound at Chess Records. Billy Boy learned harmonica at the feet of the legendary John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson when Billy was just 12...

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Entertainment
Colleges turn to recruiting chess players with scholarships to enhance schools' image

...over, football and basketball stars. Now chess players are also being offered scholarships as colleges look to world-class chess play to try to enhance their public image...County -- were alone in actively recruiting chess players as a way to boost their academic...

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Education
Chess grand master energizes game for inner city children

...world's first and only black grand master of chess -- is helping bring an elite game played...From New York to Los Angeles, covers of Chess Life magazine featuring Ashley are taped...executive assistant of the United States Chess Federation. ''Kids look up to him...

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News
Brainerd, Pillager chess clubs to host tourney open to K-12 students

Chess, anyone? Students in kindergarten through 12th grade are invited to participate in the Brainerd Area Youth Chess Tournament on Saturday, hosted by the Brainerd and Pillager chess clubs and sponsored by Brainerd Community Education...

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Neighbors
Library bans chess playing after unruly behavior

...Public Library is trying to keep unruly chess fans in check. Last week the downtown library temporarily banned chess after several incidents in which spectators...ban shut down an ad-hoc, unauthorized chess collective that has been playing there...

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News
Chess tourney planned Saturday

...Community Education will host the fifth annual chess tournament for students in kindergarten...students, are expected to participate. Chess teams from Alexandria, Brainerd, Parkers...regularly competing in and hosting regional chess competitions for area students. Many of...

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FYI
God as chess master

...life and bring it around closer to His design. When a chess master plays chess with an amateur, victory is assured no matter how...desperation to God. The bad move, in the hands of the Great Chess Master, can be turned into victory. The wound becomes...

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