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Northwest Catholic Chess Camp is largest WSCF Chess Camp " Twenty six happy chess players attended the week long camp, June 21-25, where they worked on their pawn and knight certificates, played lots of chess, ate ice cream during recess and took part in a 5 round tournament. Special thanks to volunteers Edythe Bell and Lee Galien and instructors Sam Graf and Marshall Sumwalt " 
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| Market, Gardens and Museums to start off WSCF Tournament Season Some very interesting educational destination sites will start off this year’s WSCF’s tournament season. On Saturday August 28th WSCF will hold its first outdoor chess festival at the Fond du Lac Farmers Market at 2200 W. Fond du Lac in Milwaukee. There will four scholastic divisions and one adult divisions and prizes for the adult/student combo teams. Balloons and face painting will be available for the young at heart. The Fondy Market food vendors offer up some great food and there will be free event t-shirts for all scholastic participants. Come for some great chess, great food and a great day playing chess outside. ( under the market roofs) Play starts earlier than ussual at 8:00 and awards are at 2:00 pm.   On September 18th you can join the WSCF players at the beautiful Boerner Botanical Gardens in Hales Corners. Tickets to the show gardens will be available to chess families at half price. Let’s hope for a beautiful fall day. More info on the info flyer on our registration page.  On October 2nd the WSCF chess folks in Kenosha will be treated to a tournament at the Kenosha Public Museum. The museum is free but suggests a $2 donation. The Kenosha Public Museum is home to two of the more complete Wooly Mammoth skeletons in the world. Register for all three of these tournaments on our tournament registration page and obtain complete details from each tournaments via the informational flyers.  |
| Using Chess as an Educational Tool by Bob Patterson-Sumwalt Chess has been touted for centuries as a way of educating the mind in preparation for life. The same is true today: Googling “Chess in Education” results in 998,000 hits. Interest in chess as an educational tool began in 1779, when Benjamin Franklin wrote:
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Chess Empowers Young Minds
by Bob Patterson-Sumwalt
There are many myths and stories about the origins of chess. According to David Shenk, author of The Immortal Game: A History of Chess, one of the oldest myths tells of two successive Indian Kings, Hashran and Balhait. King Hashran asked his sage to invent a game symbolizing man’s dependence on destiny and fate...
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The Wisconsin Scholastic Chess Federation (WSCF), formerly Milwaukee Area Scholastic Chess Association (MASCA), is a 501(c)(3) non profit association dedicated to promoting chess for our youth in greater Milwaukee and Wisconsin. WSCF coordinates scholastic chess tournaments at area schools, operates a chess school with qualified instructors who follow the WSCF curriculum, offers services through the WSCF chess club coach program, conducts chess club management seminars for parents and teachers, and provides chess club start-up grants.
P.O. Box 170843, Milwaukee, WI 53217-9998 Phone: (262) 573-5624
Wednesday, July 7th, 2010
