Amid turmoil, chess helps Ferguson kids cope, excel

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Ten-year-old Tyson Stegall stared intently at the chess board as his opponent, grandmaster Alejandro Ramirez, pondered a move. The fourth-grader gave a little grimace, then a smile, when Ramirez finished him off with a checkmate.
“He trapped me,” Tyson said.
Tyson is among dozens of students from the Ferguson, Missouri, area who have taken to chess over the past school year, part of a pilot program called Your Move Chess aimed at expanding young residents&rsquo