The Plainview Chess Club

Monday, April 23, 2018

I’ve been surprised that no one seems to play chess anymore. In a retirement settlement, where everyone has time on their hands, it would seem that a game like chess might fill time for folks that have a great deal of time to kill, but I have yet to see anyone at Brookdale playing chess. There was a definite uptick in chess for a time, in the 1970s when American, Bobby Fischer captured the title of Grandmaster. For several years in McCook, Dee Friehe had a group of her students that met at the Bieroc after school for chess. They learned the game (and kept up a running dialog throughout the game.) But these are isolated cases.

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