Vagabond Players will begin its 108th season with the highly acclaimed musical CHESS - music by Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, lyrics by Tim Rice (based on an idea by Tim Rice) and directed by Stephen Deininger.

During the height of the Cold War, the renowned game of chess becomes a battleground for romantic rivalries, super-power politics, and international intrigue as two great chess masters, an American and a Russian, meet to fight it out for the world championship and the love of one woman. From Tyrol to Thailand, the players, lovers, politicians, and spies manipulate and are manipulated to the pulse of a monumental score by the ABBA team that includes such classics as One Night in Bangkok an Heaven Help My Heart.

CHESS opens Friday, Oct. 20 and runs through Sunday, Nov. 19, with weekly performances Fridays/Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m., and a special $16 Thursdays on Broadway performance on Nov. 16 at 8 p.m.

For tickets and show info visit http://www.vagabondplayers.org. Special group rates are available online.

Located at 806 S. Broadway in historic Fells Point, the Vagabond Players is easily accessible to patrons CHESS is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals. http://www.concordtheatricals.com.

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The recently concluded world championship match between Ding Liren and Ian Nepomniachtchi underlined a tectonic shift in global chess hierarchy. Ding Liren, a 30-year-old Grandmaster (GM) from Wenzhou, China, came from behind three times and clinched the title with less than a minute to spare.Ding is the second Asian to win the world title. Viswanathan Anand was the first. When Anand won the first of his five world championships in 2000, he was the only Asian in the World Top 10. Europe, and more specifically East Europe, was the epicentre of world chess. The other nine GMs on the 2000 list were Europeans, both in terms of origin, and domicile. Even Anand lived in Spain. Five of the players in that millennial list had been born within the borders of the Soviet Union, one was a Bulgarian and one a Pole.

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(ABC 6 News) Whether youre young or old, or know anything about chess, theres a club for you. The Rochester Chess Club.

The club is holding its second-annual 2023 Chess Open at the Mayo Civic Center this July. The two-day event will invite more than 100 players from across the Midwest to compete for more than $1,000 in prizes.

Rochester Chess Club Director Dennis Mays tells ABC 6 News chess is all about developing critical thinking skills. Helping people learn how to plan, learn more about cause and effect relationships, and it helps with their STEM skills. On top of that, its a game!

I think it helps children pay attention, focus on the task at hand, said Mays.

Theres some chess players who when theyre thinking about a chess game and play a chess game, the rest of their world is non-existent. Their world is that chess board and the chess pieces.

There are rounds for all levels during the Open. Depending on how you do, youll go on to compete against other players in multiple rounds. But youre not eliminated. Ultimately, whoever gets the top score in that round gets the top prize.

But, how can you join in?

Attending the meetings, playing chess at the Rochester Chess Club. Theres a membership but its something thats voluntary and you can participate in everything. If we have sanction tournaments, thats sanctioned by the United States Chess Federation, that requires a membership.

The Rochester Chess Club is open to anybody. Mays says he has students in elementary school to even one in their late 90s.

If youre interested in the Chess Open, you can register ahead of time or at the door.

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Chess competitors (from left) Karthik Lakshmanan, Dhairya Mehta, Jashwant Reddy Ambati and Dattasai Kilari pose with their championship trophies.

After winning the Hurvitz Cup State Scholastic Team Championship in elementary school a year ago, the same Hopkinton team of chess players won the K-8 division of the tournament this year.

The competition is run by the Massachusetts Chess Association, which hosts the tournament annually and attracts young players from all over the state.

Going into the competition, the Hopkinton team consisting of sixth graders Dattasai Kilari, Dhairya Mehta, Jashwant Reddy Ambati and Karthik Lakshmanan ranked second behind Belmonts Chenery Middle School.

All four players have a passion for chess and have been playing competitively for years, with Kilari and Mehta competing for six years, and Ambati and Lakshmanan competing for three and two years, respectively.

Despite their varying experience levels, all four players were critical in the teams latest accomplishment.

Kilari was first board in the tournament, meaning he is the highest-ranked team member. Each team member plays their counterpart of the same rank on the opposing team. Kilaris opponent was an eighth grader and a National Master, a title awarded to a player who has reached a ranking of 2,200.

I thought I was going to lose, Kilari admitted. I hoped that the other people on my team would win their games.

However, after a tough match, Kilari ultimately emerged victorious.

I was not doing very well, but he tried to go for the win so that he could tie [the team score], and he went too far for the win and lost, Kilari said.

Kilaris goal is to become a National Master by the end of the year.

In the final round, two Hopkinton players had won their games, and one had lost. Ambatis victory secured the title, avoiding a tie.

Although the boys compete together, they typically dont practice together. Instead, they individually practice on websites like chess.com. The players use puzzles to improve their tactical abilities and play games to learn, using an analysis tool to see their mistakes. Mehta explained that theyre constantly learning and improving, striving to become better players.

Despite the pressure of competitive play, the Hopkinton team offers a valuable lesson for all chess players:

Dont stress about chess, Ambati said. Its only 64 squares and 32 pieces.

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On a cold Tuesday night, two blocks from Union Square, people start lining up to enter an old building off Post Street named the Mechanics Institute. But inside, there is a research library and a competition hall for playing chess on the top floor.

Chess Program Manager Alex Robins says there is so much history since they have been operating since 1854, but tonight is the big night. It's the Tuesday night marathon.

This is the longest-running weekly tournament in the United States it's been going since 1972, Robins said. We've actually been doing really well on attendance lately all of our tournaments are selling out in advance.

That is the beauty of chess. A sudden resurgence of the 1,400-year-old game can only be explained by the COVID-19 pandemic causing everyone to stay home, chess tournaments resorting to function online, and the premiere of the Netflix series Queens Gambit, which told the story of a female chess prodigy becoming a chess master during the Cold War.

Only minutes before the tournament started, the Chess players listened to the resident Chess master, Paul Whitehead, lecture on a recent international game played by Armenian chess grandmaster Levon Aronian. Mr. Whitehead displays strategy and mistakes made throughout the game on a demonstration board, where chess pieces hang on, giving a bird's-eye view of the carnage.

Whitehead said that the Chess grandmaster was setting up his pieces as a dragon variation of the Sicilian Defense, a known set of moves that put most of your chess pieces on the frontline. Learning from past games helps new and professional players turn the tide to beat their opponents.

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This classroom environment allows regulars to ask Paul Whitehead, What if Levon made a daring move?

A lot of times taking action can lead you into trouble, Whitehead, who became a Master at a young age, said. Being patient is sometimes the thing to do.

When the lecture ends, more members pour into the room, packing the hall. Most of the chess players are male, and they vary in age. Some players are as young as eight, some as old as 80. But there were some women players scattered around the tables.

The Institute wants to include women and children from lower economic backgrounds so they learn to play chess. Because, despite the recent resurgence, there are still some barriers in the Chess world since the game is still male-dominated or needs a lot of funding to play matches to be ranked and play in tournaments.

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Alex said to really see the Mechanics Institute at work, interested folk could see the Scholastic Chess Championship, where more than 300 students from all over San Francisco would compete at the San Francisco County Fair building in Golden Gate Park.

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Before the competition started, you could see young kids reading up on chess strategies or trying to memorize gambits, a set of famous opening moves in which players would trap their opponents by giving up a piece for something better.

Allysa Stone, Senior Director of Programs and Community Engagement at the Mechanics Institute gave the opening speech that kicked off the event.

Stone said, Its been four years since we've been able to bring the championship back.

There were tables set for Kindergarteners to 12th graders who could compete in unranked games, which students play amongst their peers, and ranked games with no age range, just skill level.

Wilson Skinner, Special Educator at Francisco Middle School, said, I think for Chess Club at this age, it can feel like a place to be.

I know we run our club as 'very open,' Skinner said. It gives a lot of kids who need somewhere to go at lunch or made a ton of friendships a place to find community.

Skinners side hustle is running the Chess club and team. His motivation is to have his students bond together during tournaments and also in academic settings. But Skinner also has a challenge to face.

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My challenge is how do I get more girls to play, "Skinner said. Were kind of seeing them recognize their power feels empowering and exciting.

Skinner added that in the Francisco Middle School team of three, two of the strongest players are girls. One of them, Vicky Lee, came out of the tournament hall to catch up with the team after her game. She lost in an earlier match but was in great spirits.

I'm really glad to come here, Vicky Lee said. There's a lot of great people, and I learned a lot from my first game.

Just for Lee to practice for the tournament, she used a mix of Online Chess matches from Chess.com and their Chess puzzles, which throw the player into random scenarios to find a quicker checkmate. But, mostly Vicky credits attending the club and interacting with people.

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You can think of all the dynamics and ways you can move a piece, Vicky Lee said. It's kind of really like how we experience life with a lot of moves, except it's on a chess board.

Win or lose, the next generation of Chess players will be okay. As long as they do not leave themselves open for a checkmate.

EDITOR'S NOTE: A previous version of this story contained errors that have been corrected. The story at the end states that the Mechanic's Institute offers free chess classes every Monday, but their free classes are offered every Wednesday.

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Philadelphia Eagles general manager Howie Roseman continues to play chess while many other general managers are stuck at checkers. Roseman completely dominated the 2023 NFL Draft as he did in 2022. This time around it seems that other general managers are tired of Rosemans public success.

The praise is well deserved. The best player in the draft, Georgia DT Jalen Carter, fell past the Atlanta Falcons at #8 and Roseman quickly traded up with the Chicago Bears in order to secure Carter. There were seven other teams that had the opportunity to draft Carter but passed on the controversial athlete. Roseman wasnt nearly done and also selected Georgia DE/OLB Nolan Smith with the 30th pick overall.

Roseman found value picks in offensive lineman Tyler Steen in the second round and scooped up another Georgia Bulldog, Kelee Ringo, in the fourth round. Ringo was projected to go in the second or third round of the draft. Roseman identified the slide and traded up to take the cornerback before anyone was any wiser. Roseman still was not done with his campaign and traded a fourth and seventh-round pick to the Detroit Lions in exchange for former second-round pick running back DAndre Swift.

The only drafting Georgia players joke is amusing but you cant argue the recent success Roseman has found with drafting players from Athens. The Georgia defense for the last two seasons has been one of the best collegiate defenses we have seen in the last decade. The players coming from that program, similar to the tradition of the Alabama Crimson Tide, are winners and compete with the best. Bringing college players to the professional league that already have experience against elite competition and have that hunger for additional victories is just good business.

Roseman already brought one Super Bowl to Philadelphia and since that victory, his reputation faltered slightly with several questionable picks. While many on the outside believed that Rosemans job was in jeopardy he has accomplished quite a bit in the last two seasons leading up to the 2023 NFL Draft;

Normally when a general manager amasses a Super Bowl team whether they win or lose they usually have to play catch up and end up trying to recover from huge cash/salary cap expenses. Howie Roseman, similar to Chiefs general manager and wunderkind Brett Veach, has been able to keep a competitive unit on the field. Not only has Roseman been able to keep a competitive Eagles team on the field but he appears to be continuing to build up his squad through the draft and free agency.

The 2023 season will be a huge test for Roseman and what appears to be another dominant Eagles team. And for those that continue to express jealousy at Rosemans recent success, this tweet sums up a response for those that continue to chatter.

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The 2023 World Chess Championship saw the game scale new heights. Metaphorically and quite literally. In fact, it went all the way above the planet. A unique match that took place between the International Space Station and US National Aeronautics and Space Administrations (NASA) Mission Control.

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NASA would share the details of the same on their reddit and Twitter handle, While the World Chess Championship was going on last month,/u/warrenhoburg (Warren Hoburg) and his Crew-6 crewmates (left to right: Frank Rubio, Woody Hoburg, UAE astronaut Sultan Alneyadi and Steve Bowen) were finishing up a chess match of their own against the flight directors in NASAs Mission Control Center (back on Earth) at Johnson Space Center.

It further add, Each team made about one to two moves a day, as their hectic schedules allowed, sharing updates via space-to-ground communications. Despite starting with the black pieces, the ISS crew emerged victorious, checkmating Mission Control with a cross-board queen move.

Their first game wrapped up on Sunday, April 16 and the second match is already underway! Keep an eye on our ISS blog for more scientific updates from the orbiting laboratory.

It wasnt a first instance of a chess game in space. The first Earth vs. Space chess match began during astronaut Greg Chamitoffs Expedition 17 stay aboard the ISS.

NASA and the U.S. Chess Federation (USCF) teamed up to host the match, which started in September 2008. Chamitoff conceded the match in a Dec. 16, 2009, letter to the third grade U.S. Chess Championship Team and its chess club teammates from Stevenson Elementary School in Bellevue, Wash.

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Stella Schwartz, 16, hopped on the chess bandwagon earlier this year after hearing about the game from her older brother, Hugh, a high school senior in San Francisco. Alex Post, a freshman at the University of Colorado, started playing in February, after some chess-related videos appeared in his Tik Tok feed; then he got his whole fraternity playing.

Many other teenagers and young adults said that they too had recently developed a regular chess habit, although they could not recall how it started. But by all accounts from players, parents, teachers, website metrics the games popularity has exploded.

Sinceearly November, the number of daily activeusers to Chess.com, a website and app where visitors can get chess news, learn the game and play against one another and computer opponents, has jumped from 5.4 million to more than 11 million, rising sharply after the beginning of the year. (In December Chess.com also purchased the Play Magnus Group, a company started by chess world champion Magnus Carlsen that includes a mobile chess app.)

The biggest growth has come from players who are 13 to 17 years old 549,000 visited Chess.com in January and February, more than twice as many as in the two months prior, according to a company estimate of traffic. The second-fastest age group in the same period was 18- to 24-year-olds. Its everyone, every single day, Ms. Schwartz said. Ive seen people play at parties.

Casual observers, as well as newly avid chess players, may attribute the trend to pandemic lockdown and boredom, or perhaps to the popularity of the 2020 Netflix mini-series The Queens Gambit. But quietly a grandmaster plan was also unfolding, carefully crafted by Chess.com to broaden the appeal of the game and turn millennials and Gen Z into chess-playing pawns. Were they playing chess, or was chess playing them?

Everything was targeted right at high school, college and junior high, saidErik Allebest, chief executive officer of Chess.com.

The strategy was very much deliberate, he said: to erase the perception of chess as a grueling, geeky battle of wits and to package it instead on social media as less intimidating, fun, even funny. The matches offered on Chess.com also play to impatience. Timed games can be played at various lengths: 10 minutes, three minutes or, if that seems interminable, one minute. Still too long? Enjoy a 30-second match! Sometimes, Mr. Allebest said, its just about sport for sports sake, not about getting better.

Soon, before anyone quite knew what had happened, it was game over, and chess had won. It happened in a really short period of time, Mr. Allebest said of the games online growth, thanks to a handful of crazy seeds.

Happenstance the coronavirus, word of mouth, the handsomeness of Mr. Carlsen played a part. From February 2020 to February 2021, usage on Chess.com appsleaped from around1.5 million daily activeusers to around4.5 million.

Behind the scenes, Chess.com was working to change the games image and attract new players. This was good for business. Although the app allows users to play for free, its financial model relies on charging for tiers of service, from $6.99 to $16.99 per month for additional features like instructional videos and computer analysis of a players games and moves. The strategy, simply, was to rebrand chess as good old-fashioned fun.

When I was a kid, chess was for nerds, Mr. Allebest said. We started selling the enjoyment of chess and community more than just the top players and news of top players. In 2020, the site started hosting tournaments with online influencers who were not particularly adept at chess but had large followings among young people. These included xQc, a professional video-game player and streamer; Ludwig, an e-sports streamer; MoistCr1TiKal, another streamer and commentator; and Mr. Beast, a 24-year-old YouTube sensation with 147 million subscribers.

Chess.com hired college students to manage its social media presence. The students were encouraged to be irreverent and funny and to create memes, Mr. Allebest said. A recent blog post on the site was titled Why chess sucks and offered as the main reason, I always lose!

The sites Instagram account features short, offbeat videos, including the regular appearance of a bearded man in a puffy green pawn costume, who at one point trips over an electrical cord. Joker takes pawn.

Before long, an array of online chess personalities had emerged.

Levy Rozman, 27, is an international masterand a lively, charismatic commentator better known as GothamChess; Mr. Allebest described him as a chess prophet spokesperson for 14- to 25-year-olds. Grandmaster GMHikaru has 1.91 million YouTube followers. Alexandra Botez, 28, another chess celebrity on Twitch and YouTube, earned a particular claim to fame: Once, while streaming a match, she blundered into losing her queen and reacted with an endearing, bemused shock that made the gaffe seem cool. To accidentally lose your queen is now known as the Botez Gambit.

Mr. Post, the freshman at the University of Colorado, said he was drawn in by a bunch of clips TikTok videos by GothamChess at a moment when he was feeling kind of bored.

That was in early February; now, he plays every day, including sometimes in class. And he himself turned into a chess influencer. At a fraternity event, he said, he asked a frat brother, Yo, are you good at chess?

He said, Lets play, and then another dude said, Im decent, and it was like a domino effect, Mr. Post said.

Chess.com allows users to play against other people of their own skill level or against computer programs of various levels, including A.I. opponents that have names and personalities and can be outspoken.

Fabigi, described by Chess.com as a hardworking Italian American plumber, is an advanced beginner. Boshi, portrayed as a longhaired human with a reptile body, plays at the beginner level and is everyones favorite dinosaur sidekick, according to a Chess.com description.

But the mother of all Chess.com bots, introduced only for the month of January, was Mittens, an anime-esque tabby cat with big green eyes that look a little sad. Mittens was advertised by Chess.com as having a chess rating of 1 the worst. In reality, Mittens was a stone-cold killer with a sadistic streak.

Mittens was created with world-class skills and was unlikely to lose against the worlds top grandmasters. Mittens played slowly, appearing to give the opponent a chance while muttering odd and obnoxious taunts. (Meow, I am become Mittens, destroyer of kings.)

We made it strong enough to beat virtually every human player in the world, but not quickly, said Mike Klein, the chief chess officer of ChessKid.com, which is a part of the Chess.com company.

In January, 40 million games were played against Mittens, which Slate described in a headline at the time as the evil cat bot destroying players souls.

Mr. Klein has been traveling the country trying to convince schools to include chess in the curriculum. He argues that chess is good for the brain, but he concedes that the scientific studies he invokes, linking chess with better performance on standardized tests, are pretty old or dont have a good control group or are not a large enough sample size.

Whether chess offers anything more valuable than other online games do is unclear, said Dr. Michael Rich, an associate professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and the founder of the Digital Wellness Lab, which studies the health aspects of technology use. It all depends, he said, on whether someone is playing with patience, and to learn, or just for quick digital thrills.

Some teachers complain that chess is more of a distraction than a learning tool. They play it constantly, schoolwide, and its gotten to the point where they arent turning anything in and are exclusively playing chess, an anonymous high school teacher said of students in a post on Reddit, where several threads have emerged on the subject. Mastery appeared to be an afterthought, the teacher wrote: The only thing is theyre all really, really bad at it? Theyre absolutely awful.

Ms. Schwartz, the high school sophomore in San Francisco, said that she generally avoided playing in class and that it did benefit her brain. Chess is a smart game, she said.

Her mother, Emily Stegner-Schwartz, agreed. Id rather she play chess than, whats that game, Jewel Crusher or Candy Land, she said, referring to the game Candy Crush. Online chess is to chess what pickleball is to tennis, she said.

Her son, Hugh, the high-school senior, couldnt recall what first got him playing on Chess.com earlier this year friends, maybe? I dont know, its weird, he said. Now he plays twice a day. And if there was a corporate strategy to capture him, did it really matter?

Everybody is manipulating people now on social media, he said. Chess is not the worst thing to be manipulated into.

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Howard University's chess club has been around since the early 1900s but hasn't been active in recent years until a student decided to bring new life to the club in 2020.

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Chess is all about strategy, and an HBCU chess club is learning to master the game. Howard Universitys chess club has been around since the early 1900s but hasnt been active in recent years until a student decided to bring new life to the club in 2020.

One of our students reinstituted the club and got it reinstated, said Nisa Muhammad, the teams adviser. Muhammad is the Assistant Dean of Religious Life and an avid chess player. Since leading the team, shes watched the students grow and learn.

The team began competing in prestigious competitions, including the Pan Am Collegiate Chess Tournament. They entered the online tournament back in 2021 with hardly any experience and won the under 1400 section, the greatest upset of a lower ranked player over a higher ranked player.

During the in-person competition the following year, they lost every game. I said I have to find the right coaches for them because theyre all serious about chess, Muhammad said.

She brought in Jerald Times, the 2021 Chess Educator of the Year, and hes continued to work as their coach. The team also had a chance to learn from the 12-year-old Nigerian prodigy, Tani Adewumi.

They entered the 2023 Pan Am Games again, this time ranked No. 43, but by the time it was open, their team A was ranked 8th. Im really looking at how we can advance and do more in the world of chess, Muhammad added.

Last month, they continued their rise to the top during the inaugural HBCU Chess Classic, put together by the first Black Chess Grandmaster Maurice Ashley, and The Black Chess Odyssey Society, taking home first place wins in the individual and team categories.

Their president, Malik Castro-DeVarona, who won his first tournament in kindergarten, said its been a rewarding experience and he couldnt be happier with the progress his team has made.

I think were in a really good position to just balloon and be really successful next year. The critical analysis that chess gives you really comes into your day to day, he added.

Castro-DeVarona also offers tutoring for anyone looking to learn and expand their interests and hopes to see more Black and Brown kids give it a try.

One of my favorite takeaways from the game is no matter your position in life, you have to make the best move you can given your situation.

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