Bob CollinsThere’s something oddly comforting about watching kids at a chess tournament.
The Brainerd Area Chess Tournament was held in Baxter, Minn., for most of the day on Saturday.
The chess masters of Brainerd
About the blogger
Bob Collins
bcollins@mpr.org • @newscutBob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.