Elizabeth Spiegel's blog

          8th grade team at Olympic Park in Atlanta  Back from a successful Middle School Nationals! We won: Under 1400 by 2.5 points. Angel...

not a lot of girls here   I'm just back from Grade Nationals and I have some pressing thoughts about girls chess to share with you.  The...

     For a long time, the National Junior High has had two championship sections, K-8 and K-9.  In the last forty years, almost all America...

I find the whole accusation of recruitment weird. I don't think recruitment is in any way wrong, but I am also fairly certain I have nev...

The Scholastic Council should all resign.       Let me backtrack.  In late March, Nura Baala, 7th grade, 1900, transferred from Success Aca...

Heres a talk I gave for the Chess Educator of the Year Award at UT Dallas. https://youtu.be/__CPZu4ckjM

My hat is off to the USCF Ethics Committee for coming to the correct decision in the Henderson case, also for some beautiful writing and i...

We had two math and statistics professionals look into the likelihood of the New Mexico/ Henderson events occurring. The first report is...

       Let me say first that my assistant principal, John Galvin, is the greatest detective in the world . He's the one who originally c...

USCF President Carol Meyers issued a statement that began "1. No cheating happened, nor is alleged to have happened, at the 2018 Nati...