Nelsen traveled to St. Louis to attend the Boy Scouts of America Chess Merit Badge Launch on Saturday, Sept. 10 at the new World Chess Hall of Fame, where he met the number one chess player in the ...

ROCK SPRINGS — In order to complete their chess merit badges, Scouts BSA Robert Roswell, of Troop 86, and Chloe Hager, of Troop 307, played a game of chess at Scoutmaster Vera Trefethen’s home on Feb.

Boy Scout Troop 1778 hosted a mini-Merit Badge University event Sept. 20 at Journey of Faith Church in Waldorf. Expecting perhaps 40 participants, the troop was excited to have 79 Scouts from 14 ...

Twenty Missouri Boy Scouts, including 10 from Columbia, this weekend became the first in the country to earn a new merit badge for chess skills. Boy Scout Troop 121, sponsored by the Newman Center, ...

ROCK SPRINGS — Members of Scouts BSA Troop 86 completed the requirements for the Chess Merit Badge. Santiago Homer and Isaac Loftus are two of the six scouts who spent five weeks studying strategies ...

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