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Article: Chess strategies sharpen study skills: Game is part of the curriculum.
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- Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI)
- Article date:
- January 16, 2006
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Byline: Gina Damron
Jan. 16--Heads down, engrossed by the playing board in front of them, these opponents were quiet, focused."Ha!" blurts out Kortni Figgins, 8, as she uses a bishop to capture one of her adversary's pawns in a game of chess at Eisenhower Elementary School in Southfield on Friday.
"Oh, wait a minute," said third-grade teacher Tori Ballard as she takes out Kortni's bishop using a knight."I gotcha."Ballard's students are a handful of those participating in a program intended to incorporate the game of chess into Southfield's third-grade curriculum as a way to improve the way students learn, reason and socialize.
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