Art of Chess, The Painted Pieces of Purling London @ the World Chess Hall of Fame 2018

On June 23rd, I have the opportunity to share a story with youth at the Westside Chess Academy summer camp. It’s a story of a trip I took during the summer of 2018 to a school training that took my fellow teachers and I to the city of St. Louis, Missouri. It was my first …

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World Chess Hall of Fame 2018 @ St. Louis

On July 12, 2018, I was in St. Louis, Missouri with my colleagues from the Cobra Tech Academy, Canyon Hills Middle School. I’d recently been hired to work as a Humanities teacher with my co-teacher Mrs. Pynes. I had no idea this would mean a trip to St. Louis where it just happened the World …

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