"Chess under attack in Bay Area"

Chicago native Daaim Shabazz reports in The Chess Drum.

I think the comparison between Market Street in San Francisco and Harper Court in Chicago's Hyde Park is apt.  Chess is integral to the urban landscape: it shouldn't be confined to the lakefront.

Harper Court

Hyde Park chess players, unite!  What good is urban redevelopment that doesn't include space for play?  The chess tables have been gone for eight years.