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• Maurice Ashley says the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. battled for civil rights like a chess grandmaster.   See full article below.
  Chess Grandmaster Notes King's Strategy For Civil Rights
  
  
• It's not often that a third grader gets to face off in chess against one of the world's top players.  See full article below.
  Kid's Challenge Chess Master
  
  
• Most chess champions play their first game before age five.  Maurice Ashley didn't start until he was 14...read more.
  He's No Rook(ie)
  
  
• A 33-year old chess player who honed his skills in Brooklyn's Prospect Park has become the first balck person to achieve the title of grandmaster, the game's highest rank.
  New Yorker is First Black Grandmaster
  
  
• Eight Harlem teens have all the right moves - and their finesse at chess has rocketed them to first place in a national junior high school competition...read more.
  Teen Chess Whizzes Wow Harlem
  
  
• The day before the Raging Rooks left for the national chess Junior High School Championship competition...read more
  Harlem School's Team Beats Odds and the Country
  
  
• Six chess champs from a Harlem school surpassed even their highest hopes at the national tournament...read more
  Harle m's Chess Wiz Kids
  
  
• Making all the right moves, eight inner city junior high school students are building a name for themselves in the world or chess...read more.
  Harlem Rallies Behind Raging Rooks
  
  
• If the team doesnt finish in the top five, I'll be shocked," said coach Maurice Ashley...See full article below:
  Raging Rooks Are Co-National Junior High School Champions
  
  
• In a neighborhood where many children skip school, more than 100 students stay late into the afternoon at Mott Hall School on 131st Street.  See full article below.
  Checkmating Adversity with the Dark Knights