Last week I had the honor of speaking at the Munich Chess Festival, joining educators, historians, and chess enthusiasts from around the world. My talk centered on something I think about every single day: what happens when chess meets a three year old. It started with a song. One day when I was driving, a melody just popped into my head out of nowhere. “Bishops bishops zooming by, through the corners they will glide.” I pulled over and sang it into my phone before I could fo

A founder's response to ESPN's piece on the NBA's quiet chess boom By Adrienne Tellier, Founder of Musical Chess I teach chess to three-year-olds. Not competitively. Not with a clock or a rating system. Through music, through movement, through the kind of joyful, full-body learning that makes a child's whole face light up when something clicks. So when ESPN published its feature on the NBA's growing chess culture, covering players like Giannis Antetokounmpo, Victor Wembanyama

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