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Chess instills new dreams in kids from rural Mississippi county
Posted on 3/27/17 at 8:21 am
Posted on 3/27/17 at 8:21 am
via 60 Minutes -- CBS
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Grade-school chess teams from Franklin County, Mississippi, blow past stereotypes about who can play chess and win national recognition
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Chess has been around for 1,500 years but until a couple of summers ago the ancient game was still mostly a mystery to the folks of rural Franklin County, Mississippi. Few had ever played chess before, many confused it with checkers. A chess board was as out of place in the county as a skyscraper, but that all changed when a tall stranger arrived from Memphis to bring chess to the country with a belief that the game could transform a community. He was initially met with bewilderment. Who was this six-foot-six outsider and why would anyone come to Franklin County to teach chess? Less than two years later, a chess boom is underway in the unlikeliest of places.
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“All the statistics, everything you look at, Mississippi is the poorest. It’s the dumbest. It’s the fattest. We know that the rest of the nation has that conception of us.”
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Posted on 3/27/17 at 8:26 am to rpg37
quote:If all the stats point that out, it's not a "conception," it's a fact.
“All the statistics, everything you look at, Mississippi is the poorest. It’s the dumbest. It’s the fattest. We know that the rest of the nation has that conception of us.”
Posted on 3/27/17 at 8:26 am to rpg37
Chess is the best. I play everyday to keep the mind sharp.
Posted on 3/27/17 at 8:26 am to rpg37
I was in Franklin Co last Thurs. I didn't see any "chess craze". In fact, I didn't see a single person playing chess.
Posted on 3/27/17 at 8:33 am to Chuker
I always did really well in school, but I've always known at heart that I'm an idiot because of how much I suck at chess.
I am just awful at that game.
I am just awful at that game.
Posted on 3/27/17 at 8:42 am to FootballNostradamus
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I am just awful at that game.
I've never given it a chance but I've been whipped by teenagers before (when I was no longer one), so I'm thinking it may be a losing battle. I think if I could unlock that part of my brain I may become evil.
Posted on 3/27/17 at 9:00 am to rpg37
I love chess. I played tournaments for a while but I don't even think I'm rated anymore. It's the best way to teach critical thinking imo. The only problem is the better you get the less people there are to play because people usually quit while they're a novice. It takes work and plenty of games played to be even average. But once you start to grasp the strategy and learn different openings and defenses it can get really fun and challenging.
Posted on 3/27/17 at 9:03 am to Chuker
You didn't look very hard then. It's something they are very proud of.
Posted on 3/27/17 at 9:13 am to Tigahs2007
Yeah I actually just watched the piece. Pretty cool. Any means for the children to get out of that downtrodden way of living is great thing for everybody.
Oh, and Dr B slayed that reporter fo sho.
Oh, and Dr B slayed that reporter fo sho.
Posted on 3/27/17 at 9:17 am to Scruffy
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“All the statistics, everything you look at, Mississippi is the poorest. It’s the dumbest. It’s the fattest. We know that the rest of the nation has that conception of us.”
If all the stats point that out, it's not a "conception," it's a fact.
Why are people down voting Scruffy? Scruffy said something that is true. If the stats say that Mississippi is the poorest, fattest, dumbest, and sluttiest state in the country, then it is a fact.
Ok, that last one is only supported by TSLG's statistics of the ease of kitty slaying in Mississippi, but I think Scruffy would agree with this message nonetheless.
Posted on 3/27/17 at 9:40 am to rpg37
Posted on 3/27/17 at 9:42 am to GoHoGsGo06
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Chess is the best. I play everyday to keep the mind sharp.
Every day? How old are you?
I played by mail with my dad for a while. He still either beat me or let me win. I suck at it.
Posted on 3/27/17 at 9:43 am to rpg37
Watched the piece last night and it was nice to see kids in such a depressing place have some hope for their future
They were sooooo country
They were sooooo country
Posted on 3/27/17 at 9:46 am to rpg37
We need to get these kids on the plastic crack of 40k and warmahordes...
Chess is too simple
Chess is too simple
Posted on 3/27/17 at 9:47 am to TSLG
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Why are people down voting Scruffy? Scruffy said something that is true. If the stats say that Mississippi is the poorest, fattest, dumbest, and sluttiest state in the country, then it is a fact.
People are down voting because those same stats say LA is right behind them.
Posted on 3/27/17 at 9:49 am to rpg37
I can play chess but much prefer checkers.
Checkers were very popular in the South and in Mississippi years ago. Dominos too.
I have seen very good chess players that couldn't beat good checker players in checkers.
Dominos is a great game to develop math skills.
When I was a kid almost every little rural town had a "domino parlor" or at least a store where dominos and checkers were played almost all day. I remember my grandfather playing at the cotton gin while waiting on his cotton to be ginned.
"Checker Hall of Fame" used to based in Petal, MS. LINK
Checkers were very popular in the South and in Mississippi years ago. Dominos too.
I have seen very good chess players that couldn't beat good checker players in checkers.
Dominos is a great game to develop math skills.
When I was a kid almost every little rural town had a "domino parlor" or at least a store where dominos and checkers were played almost all day. I remember my grandfather playing at the cotton gin while waiting on his cotton to be ginned.
"Checker Hall of Fame" used to based in Petal, MS. LINK
This post was edited on 3/27/17 at 9:53 am
Posted on 3/27/17 at 9:51 am to FootballNostradamus
Chess takes dedicated study to even have a baseline competence. No one who just plays a game here and there is actually any good.
Posted on 3/27/17 at 10:01 am to I B Freeman
There's a Russian GM, Ivanchuk, who apparently took time off from chess to study checkers. He is a little eccentric. Checkers is apparently much less complex than chess, but they both are still far too complex for a human mind to ever begin to balance all of the possibilities and choices.
This post was edited on 3/27/17 at 10:05 am
Posted on 3/27/17 at 10:01 am to GoHoGsGo06
Me too, chess is simply the best. For some reason, in America it is actually looked down upon. In Russia, it is a National pastime....
Also, I don't know if it is all the wisdom and experience that I have gained in life....
but I am so fricking smart now, smarter than I have ever been. Brain is sharper and faster than ever.
And not to brag, (well frick, it is truly hard not too) but I have always been faster and smarter than everyone -(there I go embellishing again, I am actually only smarter than about 99.5% percent of the world - which amazingly means there are approx 35 million people smarter than me in this world --- hard to fricking believe... Seriously, holy fricking shite that just rocked my world. Perhaps I am being too generous with the .5% estimate.)
I digress. Now, dealing with the "general populace" has gotten so bad , normal people just annoy the ever living shite out of me. Why are you people so fricking slow?
Point - your brain is a muscle. Chess is like going to the gym.
Something tells me chess players stay sharper for longer than the typical man.....
of course, typically only intelligent people are interested in chess to begin with...
Also, I don't know if it is all the wisdom and experience that I have gained in life....
but I am so fricking smart now, smarter than I have ever been. Brain is sharper and faster than ever.
And not to brag, (well frick, it is truly hard not too) but I have always been faster and smarter than everyone -(there I go embellishing again, I am actually only smarter than about 99.5% percent of the world - which amazingly means there are approx 35 million people smarter than me in this world --- hard to fricking believe... Seriously, holy fricking shite that just rocked my world. Perhaps I am being too generous with the .5% estimate.)
I digress. Now, dealing with the "general populace" has gotten so bad , normal people just annoy the ever living shite out of me. Why are you people so fricking slow?
Point - your brain is a muscle. Chess is like going to the gym.
Something tells me chess players stay sharper for longer than the typical man.....
of course, typically only intelligent people are interested in chess to begin with...
Posted on 3/27/17 at 10:03 am to rpg37
Good story yesterday on 60 minutes.
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