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Wednesday, February 19, 2020 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
CHESS: Young
players develop
passion for the game
SHROVE MEAL: Church
marks seasonal
tradition
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King told The Nugget,
<I got into leading the chess
club because it9s my son
Ashton9s passion. And I9ve
only been playing chess as an
adult for five years. It9s chal-
lenging and I9m always learn-
ing something new about it.
<We have a core group, but
a maximum of 30 kids that
are registered in the Outlaws
Chess Club. Learning the
game teaches them strategy,
how to plan ahead and criti-
cal thinking.=
Recently 13 of these
youth chess players from the
Outlaws Chess Club com-
peted at the 2020 <Chess for
Success= regional chess tour-
nament, held at Ridgeview
High School in Redmond.
The Chess for Success
program is for all students
4 from public schools, pri-
vate schools, and for home-
schooled children.
Chess for Success orga-
nizes the annual regional and
state championship tourna-
ments for elementary, middle
and high school students.
The nonprofit organiza-
tion was started in 1992 in
Portland by three fathers who
noticed that their kids who
learned how to play chess
well also performed better in
school.
King noted, <Those kids
who place first move on
to the state tournament in
Portland. We had five middle
school students, six elemen-
tary and two high school stu-
dents compete in the regional
competition. The kids played
a total of five games. They
got paired up with other kids
depending on their wins and
losses.=
King9s son Ashton, a 10th-
grader, placed second at the
regionals, but since he was
only half a point behind, he
was invited to the state chess
competition in Portland.
Ashton has been a mem-
ber of the Outlaws Chess
Club since fifth grade and has
been teaching the younger
members how to play the
game since eighth grade.
He said, <I9ve been play-
ing chess since I was five.
My dad taught me, and now I
can beat him. I like the strat-
egy and the actual thought
that you put into the game.
It9s not just a simple process
based on a book. Just in the
first four moves there9s over
2,000 combinations that you
can play. The game helps you
in different skills like math
and planning.=
Ashton has been invited
to the state competitions four
times in the past.
Benjamin Franklin was
one of America9s first and
on April 12. Lent, the time
between Ash Wednesday, the
day after Shrove Tuesday, and
Easter is a season of reflection
and preparation before the
celebration of Easter.
In earlier years, and even
now in some places, having
pancakes was a way to use
up eggs and fat before Lent
starts on the next day. Though
we in our country are lax
about ridding our homes of
dairy products, fat and eggs
prior to Lent, we still practice
PHOTO PROVIDED
Outlaws chess players battled it out in regional competition last weekend.
Several players will move on to state competition.
most famous chess players,
and he was inducted into the
U.S. Chess Hall of Fame in
1999.
Franklin was once quoted
saying: <Chess teaches fore-
sight, by having to plan
ahead; vigilance, by having
to keep watch over the whole
chess board; caution, by hav-
ing to restrain ourselves from
making hasty moves; and
finally, we learn from chess
the greatest maxim in life 4
that even when everything
seems to be going badly for
us we should not lose heart,
but always hoping for a
change for the better, stead-
fastly continue searching
for the solutions to our
problems.=
Outlaws Chess Club mem-
ber Lex Jeffrey started play-
ing the game when he was 5.
<Chess really gets your
brain moving. It teaches you
focus, and it9s fun,= Jeffrey
said.
Mackenzie Frutos, a
fourth-grader in the club, likes
chess for the competition.
She said, <It9s a compe-
tition between two people,
no physical contact, only
the battle of minds. My dad
and brother play chess, and I
wanted to see how it worked
for me. And I really like the
game.=
using up those ingredients by
adding some flour and mak-
ing delicious pancakes.
The primary ingredients of
pancakes have special signifi-
cance this time of year. Eggs
represent creation, flour is
the staff of life, salt is whole-
someness and milk is purity.
Here in Sisters, every-
one is invited to share in
this Shrove Tuesday tradi-
tion. It will happen Tuesday,
February 25, 5 to 7 p.m. at
the Episcopal Church of
the Transfiguration, 68825
Brooks Camp Rd.
The cost is $4 for adults;
children ages 4-12 are $2;
children under four eat for
free; a family of 4 or more
pays $10.
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OUTLAW CHESS CLUB MEMBERS THAT TOOK PART IN
THE REGIONAL CHESS COMPETITION ARE:
Grades K-5: Jackson Vogt (2nd grade); Joel Vogt (4th grade);
Mackenzie Frutos (4th grade); Siena King (4th grade); Tristan Harry
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Grades 9-12: Justin Blake (9th grade); Ashton King (10th grade).
The elementary team placed sixth; the middle school team placed
second. Chloe Freeman placed first for sixth graders. Brennan Frutos
placed second for sixth graders. Ryan Goff placed second for eighth
graders and Ashton King placed second in the 9-12 division.
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