This story is part of WTOP’s Small Business September coverage. Each week, WTOP will be highlighting small businesses across the D.C. region, along with financial, government and other organizations that help our small business community thrive. ‘I make my move’: Kids learn, enjoy chess after school
There wasn’t a phone or gaming device to be seen when dozens of students at Madison’s Trust Elementary School in Ashburn, Virginia, gathered for their after-school chess club.
And that’s kind of the point, according to Adam Weissbarth, founder of the Silver Knights Chess Academy , during WTOP’s visit to the after-school club.
Parents sign up their children, then Weissbarth’s Fairfax-based company provides coaches to teach the game in the first half of the session and the equipment so