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In one moment Sunday afternoon, empty chairs and cushions sat waiting on Olga Thomas’ front lawn in Milwaukee’s Bay View neighborhood.
In the next, chess lovers and enthusiastic beginners alike were arriving, taking their seats, setting up their boards and diving into games.
It was the second meeting of the new Bay View Knights Chess Club, started by Thomas after inquiring in a neighborhood Facebook group about chess clubs in the area for her 14-year-old son.
Or maybe, she wrote, someone would want to stop by her home on East Oklahoma Avenue for a game.
The response was “overwhelmingly positive,” Thomas said. Hundreds of people replied offering to play or saying they’d always wanted to learn.