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Playing chess is a great way to see the world

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Chess is said to boost math skills and logical thinking, but our favorite game may work best as a tool for teaching geography.

With seemingly everyone and their spouse consumed these days with Worldle, the online, guess-the-country spinoff of Wordle, what better way to learn about the world than through the most globe-spanning game of them all? Yes, famous tournaments and championship matches have been played in New York, London and Vienna, but they have also been staged in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, Reykjavik, Iceland, and Cambridge Springs, Pennsylvania.

When chess aficionados travel to New Orleans, it’s typically not for the jazz or the cuisine, but to visit 417 Royal St.