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Saturday, Oct. 18, 2014 Rainbow Elementary went global in a live, online chess match with students located in Xiamen, China.  This international match is a first for Madison’s growing schools chess program.  Madison students and the schools represented in the international chess match were:
Discovery Middle School:  Michael Guthrie and Angela Kinsey
Liberty Middle School:  Vishay Ram and Lawrence Zhang
Rainbow Elementary School:  Jenson Wilhelm, Hayden Billmann, Constance Wang, Will Bao, Jonah Tuttle, Maanasi Limaye, Alex Edwards, and Edward Calinsky.  
DMS and LMS competition chess teams are coached by Don Maddox and Bradley Denton. The Rainbow competition chess teams are coached by Bill Nash, Noel Newquist, and Ranae Bartlett.

The online chess matches were played live Saturday morning using www.chesskid.com.  Students from both sides joined an online club so they could play in the match. Both countries connected via SKYPE so that players could meet each other and say hello before, during and after the match.  WAAY-TV covered the event.  Read more about the event in the Madison Record.