Yorkton This Week

Watching the cavalcade of vehicles, most with Canadian or Dutch flags flying, also had to bring about thoughts of how fortunate we are to live in a country with the freedoms we enjoy.

Thanks to Currier the bizarre story is now more readily accessible and for fans of the obscure and of hockey the resulting book is well-worth watching for.

There are of course notable reasons for recognizing chess, ranging from many schools having clubs through the years, so even no-playing students knew of it, to the fact the game is centuries old, to being a set decoration in the studies of a range of TV and movie characters through the year.