Pretty Won’t Earn You Checkmate
Category: Blogs , Chess For Girls , Scholastic Chess
Pretty Won’t Earn You CheckmateBy Carrie Goldman, Saturday at 3:06 pmI am sitting in a gym that is packed with waiting families. Moms, dads, sisters, brothers—we are all settled in haphazardly, surrounded by brown bag lunches, newspapers, discarded winter coats and hats and gloves. Practice chess boards are set up on some of the tables, pieces scattered mid-game.The girls are in the other room,