Gisborne Eastern Knights chess club - a podcast by RNZ

Club Captain Noble Keelan has a very simple method of controlling the boisterousness that erupts at Tuesday night chess club at the Gisborne Eastern Knights - clapping. Yet, who can blame the members for displays of emotion. It is all business from the time chess club starts at 6.00 pm till it ends at 8.00 pm. For one thing there's the ladder board where the aim is to make it to the number one spot, where the current Chairman Colin Albert sits. Maraea Rakuraku sits in one Tuesday and comes face to face with the enthusiasm, humility, fun and competitiveness that has teenagers ditching X box and Playstations in favour of what some describe is the ultimate board game.

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