For Immediate Release
Contact: Evelyne Girardet
(312) 573-4646
egirardet@latinschool.org

Checkmate for Chess at The Latin School
CHICAGO—Some of the nation’s top young chess players will compete at Chicago’s largest scholastic chess tournament on Saturday, February 23, at The Latin School of Chicago 59 W. North Blvd. (the corner of Clark and North).

About 400 students from 40 Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin schools will begin an intense morning and afternoon of matches at 9 a.m. in Latin’s field gym. The event is expected to wrap up around 3 p.m.

Players ranging in age from 4 years to 15, will be separated into three divisions—third grade and under, fourth grade and up, and junior high school. They will play four or five games each, lasting from 50 minutes to an hour.

A special guest at this year’s tournament will be 16-year-old Dmitry Schneider, the highest ranked junior chess competitor in the United States. Schneider will be play along side one of the event’s strongest competitors—Latin’s Lower School chess team which has either won or tied for first place in all the large open events held in Illinois this season. Co-coaching the Latin team will be International Chess Master and former U.S. Chess Open Champion Albert Chow.

For more information about this event please contact Evelyne Girardet at (312) 573-4646, or (773) 529-6918 (weekend and after hours).