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You may remember us telling you about two chess teams from Hampden heading to nationals after winning the 2023 Maine Scholastic Team Chess Championships.
For the students at Weatherbee Elementary, the only thing more unlikely than their success as state chess champions, is where they found it: in the broom closet.
The students at Weatherbee Elementary School in Hampden, Maine, may seem peaceful enough.
But start a war on a chessboard and these rookies with their knight moves become a royal pawn in the chess.