{"id":4073,"date":"2019-06-09T13:42:33","date_gmt":"2019-06-09T18:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/?p=4073"},"modified":"2019-06-09T13:42:33","modified_gmt":"2019-06-09T18:42:33","slug":"chessflash-world-news-june-9-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/?p=4073","title":{"rendered":"ChessFlash World News\/June 9, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo credit: Jan Staller, New York TImes<\/p><\/div>\n

New York — $28 million \u201cChess in the Schools\u201d sponsor LEWIS B. CULLMAN<\/strong> \u201cthe desk calendar king\u201d dies at 100 in Stamford, Connecticut \u2026 this just in from Robert D. McFadden of the New York Times (full page New York Times<\/em> obituary June 8<\/a> ). The man who gave one million dollars a year since 1991 to New York\u2019s \u201cChess In the Schools\u201d died Friday June 7, 2019 in Stamford. Mr.. Cullman\u2019s favorite charity was Chess in the Schools. It teaches chess to disadvantaged city students and offers tutoring, SAT preparation and college counseling. Founded in 1986 by Faneuil Adams Jr., a Mobil Oil executive, and Bruce Pandolfini (a chess teacher\/master chess player \u2026 portrayed by Academy Award winning actor Ben Kingsley in legendary chess noir film \u201cSearching For Bobby Fischer\u201d) \u2026 the program had been supported by Mr. Cullman since 1991 with annual gifts of $1 million, and had reached tens of thousands of students. \u201cChess develops critical thinking\u201d Mr. Cullman said. “It was the concept of using chess as an educational tool that appealed to me.\u201d By all accounts Mr. Cullman watched his huge chess donations closely — allowed no tampering from manifestly do nothing pundits, “all talk and no cattle”\u00a0 chess officials, from coast to coast.<\/p>\n

— Jude Acers<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New York — $28 million \u201cChess in the Schools\u201d sponsor LEWIS B. CULLMAN \u201cthe desk calendar king\u201d dies at 100 in Stamford, Connecticut \u2026 this just in from Robert D. McFadden of the New York Times (full page New York Times obituary June 8 ). The man who gave one million dollars a year since […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[32,14],"tags":[305,304],"class_list":{"0":"post-4073","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chess-history","8":"category-chess-news","9":"tag-chess-in-the-schools","10":"tag-lewis-b-cullman","11":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/judeacers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/staller.jpg?fit=720%2C742&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1KM1s-13H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}