[IAEP] Invitaton to US Chess Federation Scholastic Chess

[Edward Cherlin]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Seth Woodworth <seth at laptop.org> wrote:
> 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.

You can install chessTutorial, chessComputer, and ChessPartyend using xo-get.

> 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:
>>
>> Brilliant, Ed!
>>
>> --g
>>
>> On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Edward Cherlin wrote:
>>
>>> 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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And Children are my nation.
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