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JIM MOYER CHESS CAMP

The Jim Moyer Chess Camp has run every summer since 2006 on the Old Town Mall at the Shenandoah Valley Discovery Museum in Winchester Virginia, which has since moved to 19 W Cork Street in 2014. Generally this chess camp is offered starting the last week of July into August for 5 days, Monday through Friday, half days, either in the morning or afternoon. Also over the years there has been an after school chess camp held at several elementary schools in Winchester VA.     See Facebook Page  too for addition info.  Or on main home page.
JIM MOYER 
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Shenandoah Valley Discovery Museum

 

​The isolated pawn casts gloom over the entire chessboard.  -Nimzowitsch

A young Bobby Fischer

​A popularly held theory about Paul Morphy is that if he returned to the chess world today and played our best contemporary players, he would come out the loser. Nothing is further from the truth. In a set match, Morphy would beat anybody alive today ...  -  Bobby Fischer

Above picture taken August 3, 2012 on the Old Town Mall.

The video to the right shows some of the Westminster Chess Club playing at the Handley Library's outdoor chess board to commemorate The Mike Foreman Rotary Reading Garden September 25, 2013, Wednesday at 5pm. The man in the white cap is 100 years young.
 
 
 
Later on October 12, 2013 at 2pm. Handley Library. The Westminster Chess Club met to teach chess down stairs next to the Archives.

 

 

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