Help Evan Share the Joy of Chess by Donating Sets

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Hey everybody, I'm Evan. I'm an 11th grader in Central Florida and I've been playing chess since I was 5. Throughout my life I've seen the tremendous benefits of chess, such as improved memory, critical and analytical thinking, focus, patience, good sportsmanship, camaraderie and friendship, not to mention the simple joy that chess has given and continues to give me on a daily basis. Chess is an educational tool, a therapeutic outlet, a sport, a way to meet people, and so much more.

As some of you may know, I run an organization aimed at providing chess sets to students in need. Right now we're focused on local donations but plan to eventually donate chess boards to enthusiastic students nationwide. Currently, the goal is to raise enough money to donate 500 high quality, regulation tournament approved chess sets to schools and kids who need them in time for the start of the 2021-22 school year in August. That's a lot of chess sets! It's also a lot of happy kids who will have a physical, tangible, real-life chess board of their very own. After being stuck indoors on the computer for a year during the pandemic, getting students to engage with real people in physical space, doing something as enriching as chess, can only be a good thing.

 I have been giving private chess lessons and all the money is being donated to this cause, and with your help, together we can spread the many blessings of chess to as many people as possible. Thanks so much!