Chess

Read the list of sentences from the article.

1. The recent U.S. Chess Federation National High School Championships in Washington, D.C., had to add overflow rooms to accommodate a record 1,750 attendees.

2. Levy Rozman’s YouTube channel “GothamChess” has more than 3.5 million subscribers.

3. Hikaru Nakamura is an American grandmaster with 1.9 million YouTube subscribers.

4. Almost immediately, it seemed everyone in his school district was playing the game.

Which two sentences taken together provide the BEST evidence to support the idea that social media has helped chess become more popular among youths?

• 1 and 2

• 1 and 4

• 2 and 3

• 3 and 4

Which sentence from the section “Chess Started Appearing On Social Media Feeds” explains how chess’ rise in popularity continued even after the first year of the coronavirus pandemic?

• Chess experienced a spike in popularity among adults during the coronavirus pandemic.

• Many people streamed "The Queen's Gambit" on Netflix, said Erik Allebest, one of the founders of Chess.com.

• After the coronavirus pandemic began, Chess.com's average daily user count of 1.5 million rose to between 5 million and 7 million, he said.

• As of April, Chess.com has been averaging 12 million users a day, Allebest said.

What is the author’s purpose for writing this article?

• to highlight a few teachers who love the effects chess has had on their students

• to emphasize how even something like chess can become a distraction if overplayed

• to describe potential causes and effects of young adults’ recent obsession with chess

• to explain why social media has a large influence on trends among young adults

Read the claim.

Chess is causing students to become too distracted at school.

How would Kevin Nitta MOST likely respond to this claim?

• Nitta would agree by saying that students focused on their Chromebooks have turned the morning walk upstairs into chaos.

• Nitta would agree by saying that students in his class must have their phones taken away from them to stop playing chess.

• Nitta would disagree by saying that chess helps students’ mathematical abilities.

• Nitta would disagree by saying that students are now forming new clubs at school.

What word would best replace the term infatuations as used in the following sentence?

Justine Wewers, a high school geography teacher in Minnesota, said she has seen many student infatuations over the years.

• dislikes

• disinterests

• crazes

• devotions

What term would best replace stampeding in the following sentence?

In early 2023, she said, students started stampeding into her library to play chess before school, during lunch and between classes.

• rushing

• dragging

• shuffling

• strolling

Chess is something I like to play.

• True

• False