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Rachel visits Valley View School Chess Club

Next week, two pupils from Valley View school will join schoolchildren from across the country in Parliament, for a Chess in Schools event with Gary Kasparov and Nigel Short. In advance of their visit, Rachel today visited Valley View School to meet the students learning chess, and to play against 12 of them at once!

Although none of them quite managed to beat Rachel, all the pupils had a great time, as did Rachel;

"It's great to see young people engaging in chess, which helps to build their problem-solving and logic skills, as well as being great fun. I'm looking forward to next week, when I'll be able to host some of my local schoolchildren in the Parliamentary event."

This entry was posted on October 14th, 2011 at 04:17:00 pm by Steve and is filed under Community, Education, Leeds West.