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docfleetwood on April 17th, 2013

Last month, the Charter School of Wilmington hosted students from Thomas Edison Charter in a chess match.  The Principal of Thomas Edison Charter, Salome Thomas-El, summed up the day as follows: “The Thomas Edison Charter chess team enjoyed the opportunity to play some chess matches against students from The Charter School of Wilmington. As an [...]

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docfleetwood on April 9th, 2013

Congratulations to Dave Gertler for winning the Delaware State Championship Title for the 11th time! Dave was kind enough to give his perspective of the event (thanks Dave!), which you can read below… ———- January’s Delaware Open was among the strongest in recent years, with seven players rated above 2000 among the 23 entrants. Charlie [...]

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docfleetwood on March 24th, 2013

High school classrooms tend to be noisy, but one-way to assure silence in the room is to sponsor a chess tournament.  Dr. Fleetwood of The Charter School of Wilmington invited Ms. Rogers Chess Strategy students to a chess match at his school on January 31, 2013.  Six Smyrna students made the trip and were paired [...]

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docfleetwood on March 16th, 2013

The 2013 Candidates Match is underway in London, England.  The winner of this double round-robin tournament will be the next challenger to Vishy Anand for the World Championship. The top 4 rated players are there (Carlsen, Kramnik, Aronian, Radjabov) as well as 4 other strong grandmasters (Ivanchuk, Svidler, Grischuk, Gelfand).  The games start at 2:00pm [...]

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docfleetwood on February 15th, 2013

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docfleetwood on September 12th, 2012

Joe Casey passes away…

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docfleetwood on November 28th, 2011

And the new champion is…

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docfleetwood on August 15th, 2010

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docfleetwood on April 28th, 2010

Seminar, simul, photos and more…

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docfleetwood on April 10th, 2010

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