Chess Celebrities Empower Children at Annual Tournament
Expecting 700+ chess players from all over the Midwest, the 7th Annual Queen City Classic Chess Tournament will take place on Saturday, April 5 at Paul Brown Stadium Club West. Now one of the largest and most unique scholastic chess tournaments in the Midwest, the tournament is a chess crowd favorite for students of all ages and backgrounds and has won the national acclaim of the prestigious United States Chess Federation's "Organizer of the Year" award.
Sponsored by ProScan Imaging and The Cincinnati Bengals and presented by the Cris Collinsworth ProScan Fund, the tournament creatively promotes discipline, goal-setting and critical thinking in a youth-friendly manner.
This year, the Queen City Classic welcomes International Master Irina Krush. Making history in 1998 by becoming the youngest U.S. Women's Champion at the age of 14, she is the highest U.S. ranked female chess player and current Women's Champion in the United States. Joining her are crowd favorites Maurice Ashley, the first and only African American Grandmaster and Gregory Kaidanov, the most active Grandmaster teacher in America and four-time U.S. Champion.
To read the entire Queen City Classic Chess Tournament press release, please click here.