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By Magellan Reyes

BERKELEY, CA The Chess Tables on Telegraph Ave, wedged on the corner of Haste near Mezzos and Amoeba Records, is a centerpiece of conversation and relaxation in the sea of students, professors, and residents that flood the avenue daily.

The tables are a loose congregation of chess enthusiasts and locals with a communal atmosphere and a somewhat decentralized structure. Anyone can sit and participate or stand and watch an ongoing game. The openness of it rests in stark contrast to the space around it: businesses that provide community at a price, housing units for CAL students, and campus land populated by select groups. Not to mention the richness of the history of the corner itself, the former location of Codys Books (a hub for social activism for over 40 years) and current residence of the defunct Center for Anachronistic Media, now used as a storage facility for local staple Rasputin Records.

The current location has been mired in controversy, however, with the owner of the lot recently confiscating all of the materials on site. In the subsequent fallout, a community consisting of students and locals alike has formed to preserve the club, an effort which led to a recent appearance at a Berkeley city council meeting. Though the work has likely just begun, there has already been a great deal of public outcry in support of the tables, with student organizations such as Telegraph for the People and the Young Democratic Socialists of America (YDSA) at CAL assisting community members.

And in a city with limited public space near campus and a suffering but vibrant local community, the question arises of how residents can congregate in liberating and artistic ways. Peoples Park was once the epicenter of this collective community expression, but now, in its current state, members of the Peoples Park community find it incredibly challenging to gather in a safe and cohesive environment.

The Chess Tables on Telegraph are seen by some as a partial remedy to that. Loosely and collectively formed during the Pandemic, the tables serve as a necessary extension of the parks values: to foster community and bring people together from all backgrounds through a shared medium.

Jesse Sheehan, a long-time Chess Tables member and Peoples Park supporter, elaborates:

Peoples Park has been vital to this neighborhood for 50 years, and even was in the pandemic, and coming out of the pandemic we immediately reemerged at the table and began playing chess every daythirsty for human interactionchess has been magic for the neighborhood.

The function of chess is not just strategic in nature but communal as well. It can bring people together as a game which sets its players on equal footing, mind to mind; it is a medium of connection that emboldens communication and enlivens thought. Which is why the existence of such a lively community as the chess club has, through changes in location and support, remained a key part of the social fabric of the city.

It is important to note, however, that views on why the chess club matters, and what they mean to locals and students, vary. Some argue for what might fall into a more macro perspectivefocusing on the importance of public space and the chess tables as a vital representation of just that. While others may have a more micro view that is not so broad, focusing not just on why public space is important, but why this public space is important. Why the Chess Tables of Telegraph Avenue matter. Why chess is integral to the space itself, and why the activity of chess at the tables is inseparable from the larger social benefits it provides for many in the Berkeley community.

The sentiments gathered from talking to many at the club appear to be more in line with the micro view, while student organizations can tend to lean more into the macro view.Both viewpoints are equally important, and it is worth noting that they are not mutually exclusive. The fight for public space, and forthispublic space, can work in tandem and even be symbiotic.

The difficulty, as it often appears, can be in the communication between the two viewpoints. Public space is worth fighting for, but not if it only remains a part of a larger-scale plan, which may neglect the thinking and feelings of the actual members involved. Students must communicate clearly with members of the Berkeley houseless, Peoples Park, and long-time resident communities. The reasoning for the actions we as student supporters take with a group must include theviewpoints of the individualsthat comprise it. Individuals like Gerard Markham, a Berkeley native and avid Peoples Park and chess club supporter who, like Jesse Sheehan, has taken an active role in fighting to preserve the club. I met Mr. Markham soon after the tables were seized, and he agreed to sit down and discuss the tables with me.

I share identities with almost everyone that participates in the chess community on Telegraph and Haste. He told me, Im a long-term Berkeley residentI grew up in Berkeley for 16 years. I shared this identity with members of our chess community that know what the old vibrant outspoken provocative Berkeley looked and felt like.

Im an alumni from a well respected private institution, the University of Rochester. I share this academic identity with the bright students from UC Berkeley.

In recent times, Ive navigated being unhoused. I share this identity with some of the regular chess club members who also experience(d) homelessness; and who also happen to be some of the strongest players in our club.

I am a nationally rated chess player that belongs to the United States Chess Federation. I share this identity with the most avid/serious chess members of our community.

There is no place in Berkeley that exists where people that share one or all of these identities converge. Its one of the only places I can exist with each of these identities without feeling the pressure to HIDE one of those identities from the people around me. Its safe for me to be who I am, ALL that I am, at our chess club.

The experiences and identities of the members of the Chess Tables, of community activists and chess enthusiasts like Mr. Markham, are incredibly expansive and nuanced. They are a fundamental part of the community which has organically grown and developed through constant interaction in public space. It is in the very rich and storied places like Peoples Park and the Chess Tables that one can see such prolific connection, and even unification.

And we must be cognizant of the sometimes-transitory nature of our involvement, which further underlines a vital need to connect with the community we are supporting. As new classes of students and organizers enter CAL, many in the local community will still be here working to improve the space they occupy on a significantly longer timeline. Furthermore, this will be with a multitude of different experiences on authority, political reform, and social advocacy, as well as different socio-economic backgrounds and labels imbued on them by organizations of authority, such as CAL administration.

The Chess Community has existed for quite some time prior to moving to an open space that would allow students to participate, more comfortably. Mr. Markham continues, But lets be clear; its my personal opinion that had our chess community still been in Peoples Park; a good majority of the students and student groups that are involved today would not be. Peoples Park is a contentious topic; its often described to students as a place that you should not go. As a result of that, it wasnt until after 2020, that students began caring and participating with the chess community.

Mr. Markham points to valid frustrations within the local community concerning the nature of student participationwhich can be inherently transitory and affected by university backed perceptions. And although there are student organizations which can facilitate more long-term connections; the students involved, and the relationships which come from individual interactions, may not be.

Mr. Markham clarifies on the point, stating:

That being said, student participation has reinforced our chess community and without it, our community wouldnt look as attractive, and it wouldnt be as dynamic. Our original chess community mixed with all of the student groups involved, creates a voting block that I believe our city officials are afraid of.

At the end of the day the local supporters of the chess club and the student community must work together if they have a chance at preserving the tables. And in talking to Mr. Markham and others at the club, I have seen great enthusiasm around student participation. Still, it is necessary to highlight the potentially different modes of dominant thought between the members involved, as it is a crucial step toward creating a more understanding and effective coalition of chess supporters.

Views vary, and the variations between individuals fighting for the Chess club abound. But the tables are not just about compiling differencesthey are about connecting them. And in the struggle for the club itself, there is an act of gradual unificationthe early stages of a potentially symbiotic relationship in which students and Berkeley locals complement each other through discussion, initiative, and action. The Chess Club has the social power to unite people and connect perspectives in a way that makes them complementaryboth on and off the board. Although the challenges that the club faced and continues to face are likely just the beginning, at the very least, it is telling that even in the potential destruction of the tablesa series of growing connections occur, a trait as woven into the fabric of the club as the game itself.

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Magellan Reyes is a writer for the Vanguard at Berkeleys Social Justice desk.

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Two siblings from Garden City High School have been teaching the fundamentals of chess to everyone from elementary students to senior citizens.

Mannat V. and Amanat D. Jain, who are a junior and freshman, respectively, are the founders of Chess4Community, which they launched last year. Their first program was a 10-week class for senior citizens at the Garden City Senior Center, followed by a five-week program for children in grades 1-5 at the Garden City Public Library.

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Two siblings from Garden City High School have been teaching the fundamentals of chess to everyone from elementary students to senior citizens.

Mannat V. and Amanat D. Jain, who are a junior and freshman, respectively, are the founders of Chess4Community, which they launched last year. Their first program was a 10-week class for senior citizens at the Garden City Senior Center, followed by a five-week program for children in grades 1-5 at the Garden City Public Library.

They also host a weekly chess club at the senior center on Wednesdays.

Chess teaches people to think strategically, and studies have shown that it has cognitive benefits, Mannat said.

The duo, whose grandparents taught them to play the game, also receive assistance in their chess initiative from their younger brother Armaan, who is a fourth-grader at the Stewart School in Garden City. Their plan is to establish Chess4Community chapters in other local towns.

Mannat, 16, is vice president of his schools Chess Club, treasurer of the Robotics Club, president and founder of the Bioinformatics AI Club and a member of the tennis team, math team and Science Olympiad team.

Amanat, 14, is a member of the varsity swimming and diving team and Chess Club. She was also president last year of her schools debate team.

Michael R. Ebert is an education researcher and has worked for Newsday in various capacities since 2003. He was part of an 11-person team named as 2008 Pulitzer Prize finalists for investigative coverage of the LIRR's platform safety issues.

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Since the start of Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine, many Russian athletes have turned their backs on their homeland, including a large number of professional chess players. Right at the beginning of the war many Russian chess players had expressed their protest against the invasion in an open letter on the Internet. Many Russian players drew their personal consequences out of conviction or for pragmatic reasons, left their home country and changed federations.

Russian sports federations were also excluded from international competitions, especially in Europe. In many sports Russian athletes could not participate at all, but FIDE allowed Russian players to participate in international tournaments under the flag of the World Chess Federation though the Russian Chess Federation remained excluded from team competitions. The Russian Chess Federation then decided to switchefrom the European Chess Union to the Asian Chess Federation.

Among the Russian chess professionals who drew conclusions from this unpleasant situation were a number of well-known players, including Nikita Vitiugov (now in England), Evgeny Alexeev (Israel), Vladimir Fedoseev and Anton Demchenko (Slovenia), Alexander Motylev (Romania), Alexey Sarana and Aleksandr Predke (Serbia) or Sanan Sjugirov (Hungary). Former women's world champion Alexandra Kosteniuk has joined the Swiss federation.

The Russian Chess Federation has now launched a development programme for young players, killing two birds with one stone. On the one hand, it binds young players, who want to take part in the programme, to the federation. And it provides work for Russian coaches, who are suffering from a lack of work due to a lack of tournaments.

Young players who want to take part in the development programme must commit to staying in the Russian Federation for ten years. If they fail to do so, they must pay back the benefits they have received.

In this way, the federation hopes to stem the outflow of Russian talent. Last summer, the Russian federation signed a ten-year contract with Andrey Esipenko, Russia's biggest talent. 14 other selected talents have been assigned to six coaches of the Russian national teams for training.

In the FIDE country rankings, Russia recently lost its second place to India and could soon be overtaken by China. Currently, only four Russian players have an Elo rating of more than 2700. Among the top 100 male juniors, Russia is also represented by only four players. For comparison: India has 21 juniors among the world's best, the USA 14.

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A BOY from Hurley is raising money towards a school trip by giving chess lessons.

Jake Richmond, 12, spends his Sundays teaching children aged five to 10 on a giant chess set in his back garden.

He is raising money for a trip to Romania organised by his school, Crosfields in Reading.

Jake advertised his lessons on his mother Gemmas Facebook page and received a big response from people wanting to learn how to play.

He now teaches about seven children regularly, usually from 10am to 3pm on a Sunday.

He said: Some of them have regular lessons and some just do it every now and again.

Whenever I put an ad up theres like a flurry of people that want to try lessons.

I teach them about the pieces, some strategies and how to play and then I might teach them some openings.

Its very easy to analyse whats going on because all the pieces are so big and it makes it a bit more entertaining to push them around the board instead of just playing basic chess. Its more fun. When its raining, I improvise and we sit in the conservatory and I get the timer out and teach them how it works on a board.

I try to make it as entertaining as I can while teaching them. I think its going really well.

Jack was introduced to chess at the age of five by his father, Warren, who owns a retail business.

He said: He is the one that got me into it. I got a bit more into it when I was about seven and then recently Ive started lessons.

At school my friends were playing it and then I started getting more into it.

Now Im really passionate about chess. I play online and, on average, play for around an hour a day I really enjoy it.

Ive represented my school and Ive competed in two tournaments. The one I did at my school last year, I won all my games. It was against the senior school, so years 7 to 11, and we were in our house teams.

The tournament out of school was in Caversham for years 7 to 9. I cant exactly remember how I did but I was decent.

I came around the middle as I won a couple of games and lost a couple.

With chess I think theres always more to learn and at the tournaments I really enjoy playing against other people. You have to compete against someone and then [the organisers] gauge how good you are and put you against someone.

You and your opposition get a certain amount of time. It can sometimes be stressful when youre playing and you dont have much time left. The smartest move Ive played was probably a queen sacrifice. You sacrifice your best piece for a win its like a trap. Its a mind game.

When you finish its like, Well done. You shake hands and then you go for the next one.

When you win, you cant go dancing around, you have to sit down and be calm. Its quite civilised. Im mostly self-taught. I have had a few big chess lessons which I did online in lockdown.

The tournaments have helped me and I had a coach at one point.

I mainly play online now. Except for my lessons, I havent played on a normal board for a while. On chess.com, I play a lot and thats my learning.

He decided to go on the trip to Romania with his school as a way of developing himself.

Jake said: Its a bit of a mystery as they havent told us everything. Theyre telling us its an educational project.

For one of the weeks, Im doing an educational project. In the small villages in Romania they dont have very good education so Im going there to help.

Then for the second week, Im trekking in some mountains and making my way to the city.

Its meant to be child-led. Were going to be carrying everything we need, like tents and food and things, and cooking our own food.

The adults will only help us if were actually in danger. Its to teach us independence and stuff.

At first I didnt think I wanted to do it but then I saw the people that did it two years ago and I thought that it would be a great chance to test myself and I really enjoy travelling. The trip is arranged for next July and participants have to raise around 2,000. So far, Jake has raised 1,400 through doing home chores, chess lessons and selling things online.

He said: I think about 1,000 is going towards the actual trip and supplies and the other 1,000 is towards the charity and helping us with the educational project.

I think were going to pay for some construction teams and things.

Jake said: When I get older, Im not going to do chess as my career but I am going to probably carry on for a couple more years.

It has got me starting to earn money and then Im going to carry on after Romania, so its good. For my job, I think I want to go into retail or real estate.

He also enjoys basketball, riding his bike and swimming.

Jake hasnt quite managed to win over his younger brother, Max, 10. He joked: Ive lost him to video games.

Mr Richmond said: I used to play him but I dont anymore. I showed him at age five and he was beating me by nine. Now I cant play him at all its embarrassing. Im clearly not very good but Jake is very good.

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FIDE Master Mark Jay "MJ" Bacojo is one of the country's most promising chess players today. Chess experts believe that him claiming an International Master title is a matter of when, not if.

But it is not going to be easy.

Bacojo knows that he has to compete in as many FIDE-rated tournaments as he can and beat as many as higher rated chess players as he can to reach that goal.

"We all know how difficult it is to become an IM. But with the support of my family and sponsors like Dasmarias Mayor Jenny Barzaga, Congressman Pidi Barzaga and coach Roel Abelgas, I can reach my dream," said the 17-years-old Bacojo, who earned his first of three IM norms at the 18th IGB Dato' Arthur Tan Malaysian Open Chess Championship in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia last September.

Starting on Saturday, October 28, Bacojo will aim for more rating points when he competes in the 3rd AQ Prime Fide Standard Chess Open at the Ayala Malls Manila Bay in Paraaque City.

Also playing in the 9-round, Swiss system tournament are International Masters Daniel Quizon, Rolando Nolte, Paulo Bersamina and Barlo Nadera; Woman International Master Marie Antoinette San Diego; FIDE Master Noel Dela Cruz and National Master Kim Kenneth Santos, among others.

AQ Prime Entertainment CEO Atty. Aldwin Alegre said the tournament will have a 90 minutes plus 30 seconds increment time control format.

The champion will pocket the P50,000 prize plus trophy, the runner-up will take home the P30,000 plus medal and the third place winner will get P20,000 plus medal. The fourth to 10th placers will win P15,000, P12,000, P10,000, P8,000, P7,000, P6,000 and P5,000, respectively.

After the opening day on Saturday, games will also be played on October 29 and November 2, 4 and 5.

Bacojo, meanwhile, is also set to compete in the FIDE World Youth Chess Championships on November 12-25 in Montesilvano, Italy as the grade 12 student from Dasmarias Integrated High School also needed to raise his current Elo rating points of 2335 to 2400 to meet the requirement for an International Master title.

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The Farmington Open Chess Tournament, hosted recently at the Farmington Community Center, held its inaugural event to celebrate National Chess Day.

This tournament marked Farmingtons first-ever sanctioned chess tournament recognized by the U.S. Chess Federation. Its 42 competitors were aged between 12 and 77.

Scholastic entrant Charlie Creswell claimed the championship trophy with a crucial draw in the final round against former Maine state champion Aaron Spencer, who finished second. Colby Colleges Amrit Shakya claimed third place. These top players in the Moose section each earned $160 for their performance.

Of the more than $1,300 in cash and prizes awarded, the overall cash winner was Loki Drisko, gold medalist in the Puffin section, who took home $220 for his perfect 4-0 record. Colby College student An Alfie Nguyen triumphed in the Lobster section, earning a gold medal and $200.

Tournament Director Glenn Miller expressed gratitude in a news release, saying, The Farmington Community Center was the perfect venue for this competition. Our club is fortunate to have the support of the Farmington Recreation Department. We received overwhelmingly positive feedback from many seasoned tournament players about the quality of the setting and how professionally the event was managed. What a privilege to host players from across the state, in such fierce competition and to promote interest in the game.

For more information, visit farmingtonchess.org.

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Cllr Stephen Stokes with Vincent Denard.

Councillor Stephen Stokes joined members of the Bray-Greystones Chess Club gathered on Wednesday, October 25, for a celebration to mark the 100th birthday of local chess player Vincent Denard, who has just hit the milestone 100.

Vincent is originally from Bangor in Co Down. In 1935 he won a scholarship to Bangor Grammar School. Following this, he went to Trinity College Dublin and graduated with a degree in Philosophy, in 1948, achieving first class honours. He subsequently worked as a lecturer.

Cllr Stephen Stokes with Vincent Denard.

In June 1963, Vincent had the honour of robing President John F Kennedy for the conferral of his honorary doctorate.

Vincent is a long time member of the Bray-Greystones Chess Club having joined in 2004.

He continued playing actively in Leinster chess competitions deep in to his nineties. In 2017, Vincent was a key member of the Bray-Greystones team that lifted Leinsters OSullivan Cup.

He followed up this success in 2019, helping Bray-Greystones to win the William Brennan Cup. At a critical moment, Vincent scored an impressive draw against one of Irelands top junior players. He would regularly slot in for teams at short notice and secure vital results.

Veteran chess captain Eugene Rellis described Vincent as the best damn chess sub in the world.

Today, Vincent continues to inspire younger generations with chess lessons.

Paying tribute to Vincent, Cllr Stokes said: Vincent is amazing. He is full of life and an inspiration in chess longevity. To continue to get positive results for the club, well in to his nineties, is remarkable. On behalf of everyone associated with the Bray-Greystones Chess Club, I would like to wish Vincent many more years of good health and happiness.

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