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Zambia

We were contacted by an intern from the U.N. about youth programs in Zambia. They had programs for football, what we call soccer, but nothing else. They asked whether we could help them start a youth program for chess. Of course, we said yes. We managed to send them enough

Nicaragua

Nicaragua We were contacted by a representative in the U.S. Embassy in Nicaragua about helping to start a program for kids. They had a teacher, but no equipment. We sent the equipment to the Embassy and they got it to the teacher. We are still in contact with the teacher.

Uganda

We were approached through Facebook by a man from the Divine Chess Academe in Uganda. I had not heard of him or this program before, so I contacted Robert Katende to check him out. Robert was well known, one of his student’s was the basis for the movie “Queen of

Interview with Ralph Bowman

Chess has an event they call the SuperNationals. What are they, what do they look like, and how did they get started? Ralph Bowman explains all of it to us as our guest on the 28th Episode of: “The Chess Files: The Answers are Out There” Related posts: Interview with

FM Craig Mar joins us on “The Chess Files: The Answers are Out There” to discuss how he went from a class player to a Master in the top 50 in the United States.

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Cole Erskine Interview

Cole Erskine wanted to know how to order products from https://fbds.dollarstore.com/ using the discount code chess. After walking Cole through the purchasing process, we also discussed how to teach what makes a sound combination versus an unsound one. That and other chess questions were asked and answered on this our

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