Now, four years later, there are too many children who want to play. The turnout was surprising to O'Gorman and other teachers. They were used to having kids play video games while waiting for the buses to pick them up. We had to have chess club in the afternoon. The desks are all used up and students sit on the floor and hallway to play.
Chess club takes kids from kindergarten to fifth grade.
They include kids of all different levels and abilities. The older students play the younger ones. They teach each other the tricks of the trade. Many younger students have trouble understanding the end of the game, but they still come back and at the end of the year most understand it. The program has become so popular that the school had to make changes in its program.