Its a small room inside Kingston's Pegasus, but the atmosphere is like a prep school playground at recess: loud, rapid-fire speech, frenetic activity and an overall sense of impending pandemonium.

In other words, just another day at the Gifted Chess lesson.

Jamaican player-enthusiast Adian Palmer has for several years now been teaching the rudiments of the "king's game" to little princes and princesses - most are within the age group nine to twelve years. Now, with Jamaica having, for the very ...


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