Big Apple Castle

New Yorkers of all ages are learning the game.  Screen shot from the BBC video

New York is many things to many people ~ including the place to be if you want to play a rousing game of chess with someone new every day of the week. In fact, according to the director of Chess NYC at the Village Chess Shop, Greenwich Village "is known as the chess capital of the world." Ambitious appellation, and he hesitates a little when saying it, but the point is made (video): http://www.bbc.com/travel/video/one-day-in/20121012-new-york-citys-chess-scene