Now for some good news: Detroit Girls Win National Chess Championship

A team from University Prep Science & Math has won the under 14 tournament at Chicago's 13th Annual KCF All-Girls National Championships. Anyone familiar with the game knows this is a great triumph of the mind. Congrats ladies and thanks uplifting the D and sporting the "Detroit vs Everybody".

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Picture pulled from Detroit News, full article below:
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/new...ship/83526258/

Winner's school from Google Street view.
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Congratulations to these girls from Detroit on their National Championship!

A truely awesome accomplishment.

A young lady overcoming adversity

http://www.freep.com/videos/news/loc...5/10/84175260/

Another intelligent young lady - courtesy of Channel 4 - who has won innumerable scholarships. She starts U of M in the fall.

http://www.clickondetroit.com/video/...arship-success

The Annual Brightest and Best list from Channel 7

http://www.wxyz.com/brightestandbest

Unsurprisingly this won't get any attention. There's no way to spin it into a negative so the most active posters will stay away.

Congrats to the champs on all their hard work paying off

Che’Rai Laster and Redwan Bin Rouf [[Cass Tech) are two more shinning stars. Laster has accumulated nearly $1 million in scholarships – incredible – and Rouf is heading off to Harvard.

http://www.fox2detroit.com/news/loca...40427985-story

Yay!

Love that picture of the champions and their trophies, rocking those excellent shirts. As I understand it, 2 of the main girls involved are twins, including the one who won the crucial final match.

Kasparov Chess Foundation

Last month two gals from University Prep also became the first African American female debate team to win the National Championships:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/detroit-w...211720579.html