Newsletter January 2014

Happy New Year

Wishing all our wonderful students and their families a Happy New Year filled with chess!

American Youth Return from the World Youth Championship including Shreya Mangalam from Barrington. The USA earned two medals, and they were in the same section.

As previously reported, Awonder Liang ran away with the U10 section, scoring 10 points from his first ten games. Though he lost his last game (after achieving a winning position), he still took gold by a full point.

428 Wavery Rd.
Barrington, IL 60010
chesswob@gmail.com
847-382-5410                                                                                                                                                           6th Hough Street Chess Tournament

  For registration go to: www.shulmanchess.com 100% of the proceeds from the tournament will be donated to 2 programs started by this chess program.

The first project started 6 years ago has provided medical and educational support for a little girl named Meher who lives in one of the slums of Delhi, India.

The 2nd project was an offshoot of the first one where we have established a computer center in the same slums of Delhi that is bringing computer literacy   to 200-300 families. The computer center has been named after a retired teacher, Maggie Gruber from District 220 who traveled to India to meet this little girl.

Your students have won many awards as founders of these projects:

http://shulmanchess.com/biography-of-chess-without-borders/ and we have produced a documentary on this little girl Meher: http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=h1ZwXA6osEo

We hope to produce a 2nd documentary on the computer center and our chess Social Entrepreneurs so please sign a permission allowing us to  video/photograph your child.

Thank you for making these projects and programs a success. Over the last 3 years Chess Without Borders has sent students to the UN Youth Assembly in   New York on the basis of humanitarian projects such as these. You can help by playing in the tournament or joining us for a meal prepared by Gourmet chefs Zein Bertacchi and her sister Rima Said from Jordan. Over 20 volunteers including GM Shulman work relentlessly to make these programs possible.

 

 

A Special Thanks	Chess and Seniors
	Extensive scientific research has conducted on people who learn chess. The results demonstrate a positive effect on multiple cognitive, social and emotional skills. For more information on this subject please visit USCF web site.We are pleased to announce our collaboration with the Senior Center in Hanover Park where we donated 4 chess sets so that seniors can learn chess. The chess program will run on Monday afternoons at the Hanover Park Senior Center.Our chess students are invited to take on leadership roles in visiting the center to teach and introduce chess to the seniors.
St Matthews Chess Tournament run by volunteers Joan and Henry Eickelbergs was fun and successful raising $700 ($400 and about $300 in food sales ) for charity. We are grateful for the support our chess families provide for intellectual, artistic and humanitarian growth through such projects for our students.We want to extend a very special thank you to our volunteer Joseph Ridgway who has generously given his time to photograph our students at many tournaments.If you would like to view his photographs please visit: www.shulmanchess.com