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This article was published 09/06/2022 (1364 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Local chess whiz Noah Monk visited Crocus Plains Regional Secondary School on Thursday to take part in a simultaneous exhibition against 13 students, giving them the opportunity to put everything they’ve learned through the school’s chess club to the test.
Teacher Jon Chiupka told the Sun that Crocus Plains’ current chess club originally began during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, when pupils were divided into cohorts and couldn’t interact directly.
“All our kids in Crocus were assigned to different lunchrooms, so we started using online chess as a way just to give people something to do for the lunch hour,” Chiupka said on Thursday.
“And it also allowed us to connect across different rooms, playing online tournaments or online games against friends.”
With COVID-19 restrictions being loosened up province-wide, members of Crocus Plains’ chess club are now able to hang out in the same space and invite visitors like Monk, who is the president of the Brandon Knights Chess Club, to drop by for a friendly competition.
Moving forward, Chiupka hopes that this new chess club continues to grow and become a reliably relaxing space where students can learn and simply enjoy each other’s company.
“We’ve got pizza, we’ve got drinks, we’ve got a university student who’s majoring in physics and English who is talking to our kids about life after high school,” he said. “So it’s just kind of nice to just bring it all together.”
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