Headlines: Chess Boom Includes Maine

 

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Wyatt Hendrix, secretary of the Maine Chess Association, said most of the scholastic members he has seen through the program began playing online, before switching to playing over the board. Now 23, he began playing chess at about 12, and became involved in the governance side of the sport at 15. "I think that during COVID-19, it was one of the things to do. It’s easy to do online," Hendrix said. "It kind of became an alternative for people who wanted to something relatively low cost and it’s pretty easy to learn and something they can do throughout their life and I think that caught on."