30 June 2008 No Comment

Reporters from the Long Beach Press Telegram stopped by to visit Chess Camp last week.

By John Canalis, Staff Writer
Article Launched: 06/29/2008 10:37:19 PM PDT
(Photo by Jeff Gritchen / Staff Photographer)

Miya Parry knows kids who click away summer days playing video games.

"Then they lose their brain cells," she says.

Miya, 10, is more captivated by a low-tech challenge, one that dates to 15th century Europe (even earlier when counting antecedents).

The Los Cerritos Elementary School pupil goes to the Bixby Knolls Chess Camp sponsored by an uptown nonprofit arts and culture program, Project Oasis.

Determining where to move 32 pieces on 64 squares could make youths smarter. Studies link the capture-the-king game to higher IQs, grades and levels of concentration in children...

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