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Saint Charles Chess Club Going Strong in Sixth Decade
After an absence of a few years, St. Charles Chess Club has proudly renewed its affiliate membership with the Illinois Chess Association. The club meets Thursday nights…
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Chess Taking Montessori School of C-U By (Pawn) Storm
“Infinite potential within finite structures” “That’s what chess is. That’s what children are.” The Montessori School of Champaign-Urbana has undertaken a new Chess Enrichment Program…
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60+ Heading to Nashville For US Chess Elementary Nationals; 20 Signed Up for Ice Harbor Midwest Championship in Iowa
60 (plus) Illinois juniors are signed up so far for the 2016 Elementary Nationals kicking off May 6 in Nashville, TN. Expert Aydin Turgut (rated…
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40 Illinois Girls Among US Top 100; 3 in Top 10
A huge thank you to Smitha Acharya for compiling these lists of Illinois girls among the top 100 of their respective age group nationwide. US…
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Illinois Chess Fixture Howard Cohen Passes Away
Long-time Illinois chess stalwart Howard Cohen has passed away. A memorial service was held at Congregation Emanuel, 5959 N Sheridan Road in Chicago followed by…
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Illinois Hosts 4 Junior Masters, 17 Experts Aged 11-18
Today marks the resumption of the publishing of a time-consuming but much-requested feature of the ICA website: a listing of the Illinois youth on the…
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Li Is Under 14 National Girls’ Champion, Liu 2nd in U16
Some times tiebreaks can be your best friend and some times they are your mortal enemy. In the case of Marissa Li, she’s probably a…
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109 Players Face Off in Champaign-Urbana Chess Fest
23 schools and over 100 players met up on April 3 for the 2016 Spring Chess Fest, hosted at Jefferson Middle School in Champaign. The tournament…
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Whitney Young’s Parker-Turner Wins $12,000 Scholarship
Whitney Young’s Phillip Parker-Turner has won a $12,000 college scholarship from the David R. MacDonald Foundation thanks to his winning performance at the Chicago Public…
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State’s GM Count Will Rise to Nine With Arrival of Texas Pair
Grandmasters Nadezhda Kosintseva and Leonid Kritz will soon augment an impressive lineup of grandmasters who call the Land of Lincoln home. The pair will join…