BALTIMORE May, 2009— On Tuesday, May 4, 175 K - 8th graders from more than 40 Baltimore City schools gathered for the 5th annual BCPS Kids Chess Tournament, held in the Levering Hall Glass Pavilion on the Johns Hopkins Homewood Campus from noon to four p.m. The event is co-sponsored by the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (CTY), who conducts the nation's oldest and most extensive academic talent search and offers educational programming for students with exceptionally high academic ability. “I started playing chess because I thought it was a challenging game that you had to use your mind on,” said Morgan Brown, a former 4th grade chess player at Cross Country Elementary School and a CTY Talent Search participant. “I like that it’s a game where you can actually play to strengthen your mind and have fun at the same time.” These students’ success, according to the Chess League's Steve Alpern, shows “that when we give our students adequate resources and the support they need, they can do anything.” ### | 
