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...Yamamoto had come to know the U.S. as a graduate student at Harvard and as naval attache in Washington. And as executive officer of Japan's naval flight school, he had learned the new religion of air power. He loved poker, bridge and shogi, the Japanese version of chess. Said one of his top aides: "He had a gambler's heart...
...really great when kids are thinking--and enjoying it," said Simons, a member of Harvard's national champion chess team...
David A. Simons '93 and Jessica Ambats '95 come to the Agassiz school every week to assist the school's chess program, which has developed into one of the country's finest...
...Marcia Duran, the director of the Aggasiz's program, the allure of chess is simple. While the game won't singlehandedly steer kids away from drugs, poverty or unemployment, it can help point them in the right direction, she said...
...Chess makes kids smart," said Duran...