College Students Take On Inmates In Chess Match

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College Students Take On Inmates In Chess Match A half-dozen university students have faced off over chessboards against about four-dozen prison inmates.

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(November 20, 2008)—A half-dozen Princeton University students faced off over chess boards Wednesday against 46 inmates at New Jersey State Prison.

The prison’s chess club has 75 members including Kelvin Washington, who’s doing a 50-year sentence for robbery.

He took on Princeton sophomore David Wang, who won the match.

No matter.

Washington says playing chess gives him a break from the prison monotony.

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