All the Right Moves

We owe a great deal of thanks to a number of organizations and people around the county and around the country. 

Downtown Silver Spring has been wonderfully generous not just in letting us have the "open chess" events on Ellsworth Avenue, but also lending stages, tables, and awnings that turned chess meetups into true community events everyone is talking about.

IMPACT Silver Spring sponsored the community meeting where Jamie Raskin raised the idea of starting a chess movement, after talking with Fernando Moreno, and began to get volunteers like myself.  IMPACT has also continued to help us in a very concrete way, by serving as a financial sponsor willing to hold donations in their bank account, and write some important checks that have helped us get the supplies we need to jumpstart school chess clubs.

We're also deeply grateful to an anonymous donor and the good offices of the Montgomery County Foundation for a seed donation that has enabled us to purchase substantial amounts of chess supplies and instructional materials. 

This web site is provided to us through the generosity of the management of Webs.com, an online blogging and site management service that is second to none. 

Montgomery County Safe and Drug-Free Schools provided prizes for the Tai Lam Tournament in May 2009, and David Mehler of the US Chess Center helped run that tournament.  Pyramid Atlantic Art Center has helped by letting us do indoor chess club leader trainings at their ArtSpring store.  Arts on the Block designed and produced t-shirts distributed at the first tournament and free chess events. 

Finally, Chess For Teachers (Tandem Publishing) were fair and prompt suppliers of the excellent instructional materials we've obtained.

Thank you all so much!