Check and checkmate could be heard last Saturday wafting across the Meadowdale Library meeting room. Fifty players from across the state in three categories, from elementary through high school levels, competed in a Chess Tournament sponsored by the Chesterfield County Public Library.
James Hudson, branch manager at the Meadowdale Library, began a Chess Club at the Meadowdale branch and for a couple of years the club has been meeting once a month. He said the club has grown a lot and now meet each week on Tuesday from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m. All skill levels and ages are invited to join.
Chess can serve as an extremely powerful education tool. It instills key lessons that aren’t directly taught in the classroom – logic, attention to detail, discipline, explaning difficult concepts and collaboration.
