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RICHARDSON, Texas, Jan. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- For the 18th time in 22 years, The University of Texas at Dallas chess team has earned a spot in ...

/PRNewswire/ -- For the 18th time in 22 years, The University of Texas at Dallas chess team has earned a spot in the Presidents Cup — collegiate chess most...

Thats a basic bargain we make with our students. students that are the best at chess shouldnt have to worry about whether they are going to have the opportunity to play against the best in the country. >> even hearing you make that sentence, we have to struggle to keep the best chess program in the country alive. i think, why should that be that you would need to struggle? you have shown the accomplishment. you have shown that you can do this often with students whom i think people would imagine...

Not the best chess player but im on my way to being there. now, as a high school senior, chess has taught me to strategize and its taught me comprehension and its taught me -- chess resolves around my life. so my success stems from chess, whether academic or after school. >> so accomplishment, humility, strategy, all of those things. that sounds like what a school should be doing and yet i was pulling moo i hair out last night watching the documentary. you kept having to manage with budget cuts ...

Definitely has. >> alisyn: thats incredible. we know the sad part about your school is that its facing a million dollars in budget cuts. its facing the possibility that you wont have money to attend the chess tournaments. how are you going to go forward? >> theres a lot of talk now about the fiscal cliff. but unfortunately, we face the fiscal cliff every single school year. so ever since 2008 when the economy soured, weve really had to find ways to keep the program doing. we do a lot of fundrais...

The most popular kids are nerds. total nerds, board game nerds. that middle school exists, and it is awesome. >> thank you for calling i.s. 318, home of the national chess champions. >> that recorded greeting is the first thing you hear when you call i.s. 318, which is a public school in brooklyn. in williamsburg, brooklyn. its a school where the chess players are the schools heroes. its a regular old new york city school that has developed a really winning chess program. developed it over years...

"best new thing in the world" in a long time. imagine in middle school where the most popular kids are nerds. total nerds, board game nerds. that middle school exists, and it is awesome. >> thank you for calling i.s. 318, home of the national chess champions. >> that recorded greeting is the first thing you hear when you call i.s. 318, which is a public school in brooklyn. in williamsburg, brooklyn. its a school where the chess players are the schools heroes. its a regular old new york city scho...