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...Chess] is a brain sport which teaches kids to think, concentrate and plan ahead," said Charney, a graduate of Yale College and Yale Medical School. "It's fun and it builds brain muscle...
...until last Saturday, Fogel had never played chess on a 20-foot by 20-foot canvas board. He had never used red and yellow pieces made of corrugated cardboard. And the pieces he had used had never approached his height...
Then again, before Saturday, some of Fogel's schoolmates at Agassiz had never played chess at all. They got their first chance at the Agassiz Fair, thanks to Dr. Michael Charney and 15 Harvard Chess Club and Phillips Brooks House (PBH) volunteers...
Charney, an instructor at Harvard Medical School, built the oversized chess pieces and board for The Games Project, a rapidly expanding program he founded last year to introduce chess to inner-city youths. At events like Saturday's Agassiz Fair, he has found that the children are very receptive to the game...
...teaching them chess, we show them how to follow instructions, and how to channel their aggressions elsewhere," he said...