If you love to see chess fanaticism spread like wildfire... Please consider donating to the wildly successful, Wingfield High School Chess Team, and watch your charity MULTIPLY! Though I urge you to read through our team history in blog posts...
THE JOURNEY CONTINUES Its been about 3 months since I've blogged about the Wingfield Chess Team. To catch up on our story, click the following link... (https://www.chess.com/blog/beth_thrasher/saving-lives-in-mississippi-birth-of-the-wingf...
National NewsIf you saw the 60 Minutes piece on Franklin County, you were probably just as impressed as we were with the young and fierce talent being groomed in the quiet countryside of Meadville, Mississippi. Last school year, our Wingfiel...
10 Year-Old Chess Whiz! This past week, the Wingfield H.S. Chess Team (in Jackson, Mississippi) hosted our first simultaneous exhibition. We were overjoyed to have our buddy Ryan Wu (USCFR 1613) stop by to play the entire team. It...
The Wingfield High School Chess Team traveled to the "Catfish Classic" in Belzoni, Mississippi this past Saturday. Though our top player only garnered 3.0 points and most of the rest of our guys recorded only 1 or 2 points, we had a GREAT ti...
Tonight, the Wingfield Chess Team made its last preparations before leaving for Belzoni, Mississippi Saturday morning to kick off our competition season... down the street, a 16 year old shot a 13 year old. (Above: Teaching Greg Bugh...
The title of this post may seem over-dramatic, but when you consider that the Wingfield High School Chess Team formed amidst neighborhoods plagued by generational poverty, crime, rampant gun violence, gang activity and crushing academic malaise, I...
