Queen City Classics

The 19th annual Queen City Classic chess tournament is just now wrapping up and hundreds of kids will walk away smarter and with a trophy in hand WCPO 9 news reporter palisero introduces us to some of them and their love for chess Up to 700 kids were registered to play chess and it's here where I met many smart kids nail-biting Hand tapping That Strategy check lots of strategy Leading to that final handshake the perfect icebreaker and recipe for making friends Getting that shiny highly anticipated trophy at the 19th annual Queen City classical chess tournament my dad He wants us to come here and try to get a trophy each time So we can get better at chess every time we come here that feeling of winning one that 17 year old Justin Storn has experienced before it felt great because there's a lot of hard work that paid off according to the US Chess Federation Storn is a candidate master of player holding a rating above 2200 out of 2800 it was a lot of hard work because there's a lot of studying and stuff that goes behind the scenes and chess to get better and improve and Paul Brown stadi He was also there to cheer