[IAEP] Invitaton to US Chess Federation Scholastic Chess

[Seth Woodworth]

This is great.  I don't think that gnuchess is installed by default in
all country deployments, but I'm pretty sure that it comes standard in
at least one large deployment.

Providing an awesome translated manual would be amazing.

--Seth

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Greg Dekoenigsberg <gdk at redhat.com> wrote:
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> Brilliant, Ed!
>
> --g
>
> On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Edward Cherlin wrote:
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>> I just now sent this message on the US Chess Federation Web site,
>> http://www.uschess.org/. Scholastic Chess includes all of the USCF
>> activities in schools: teaching, clubs, tournaments, publications...
>>
>> One Laptop Per Child (http://laptop.org/) and Sugar Labs
>> (http://sugarlabs.og/) have put chess software, including a tutorial,
>> on the OLPC XO, which is now in the hands of half a million children
>> around the world. We would like to discuss with you an expansion of
>> Scholastic Chess to dozens of countries and in time to many millions
>> of children.
>>
>> In particular, we have the opportunity to create free electronic
>> teaching materials for distribution on the laptops. International
>> Master Josh Waitzkin has offered his book, The Art of Learning, if we
>> can work out the licensing with the publisher.
>>
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