The chess club. For decades it’s been the butt of jokes like Woody Allen’s classic chestnut:
“I failed to make the chess team because of my height.”
But that has changed, thanks to the chess team at I.S. 318 in Brooklyn, their dedicated coach Elizabeth Vicary Spiegel, and principal Fred Rubino and assistant principal/chess coordinator John Glavin.


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