Jorge's Students Leading in State Interscholastic Events
The youngest Master was Jordy Mont-Reynaud at 10 years, 7 months (1994). The oldest player to become a Chess Master was Oscar Shapiro, at age 74.
The first mention of Chess in America occurred in the year of 1641 in Esther Singleton's history of Dutch settlers. The first American Chess tournament was held in New York in 1843.
“Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic”
–Mikhail Botvinnik
“Play the opening like a book, the middle game like a magician, and the endgame like a machine”
–Spielmann
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(401) 886-5088
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