I stumbled across some data a few years ago that showed the number of youth chess participants by grade level across the state of Texas. A few in the chess community pointed out that the decrease in participation suggests that as students get closer to high school and graduation, the numbers drop. There’s a sharp …
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This is the last photograph I took of our Cobra Chess Club when we were at school 2020 located in a space we refer to at Canyon Hills Middle School as the “the A file…” This is where we host club! It’s been a year to remember. We participated in many tournaments this year. Won …
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Initially, in 2018 we started talking about a website that would be designed and run by the students. There was a student with some really awesome ideas for how our website could look. He designed it on Wix. On this day we discussed plans for the purpose of our website and how to promote …
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Due to the 2020 pandemic, our Cobra Chess Club and Community Chess Connection activities had to transition into an online space for safety concerns. For our Cobra Chess Club we continue to host chess meetings virtually every Tuesday & Thursday at noon and every Saturday at 1PM. Weekday club is called Cobra Chess Club Kids …
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