By Gersh Kuntzman
Students from Edward R. Murrow HS in Midwood earned their record 20th
city chess championship Sunday night by thrashing teams from some of New
York's elite schools.
And in victory, the team's longtime coach took a shot at President Trump's travel ban and heightened visa restrictions.
"We're a multicultural team with mostly immigrants from all over the
world," said the coach, Eliot Weiss, mentioning team members from
Ecuador, Mexico, China, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Russia, Ukraine, Georgia
and Kazakhstan. "We could not compete in such a tournament if it were up
to President Trump."
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Source: The New York Daily News (via The Empire Report)
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