More chess in Nepal

We recently reported on Joe, our brilliant gap year student, travelling to Nepal where he was spontaneously invited to make the ceremonial first move in a tournament in Kathmandu. He has now moved on to more rural areas where he’s going to spend the next few weeks volunteering in a local school.

Joe has wasted no time in getting chess on the curriculum. Such is the children’s enthusiasm for the game that he is now running a well-attended chess club every lunchtime. What’s more, several of his fellow volunteers have also caught the chess bug and are receiving lessons alongside the children. Chess truly is a universal game, and Joe’s teaching experience now stretches from inner city boroughs of central London, to the foothills of the Himalayas!