If you asked ten people to picture a chess camp, I imagine you'd get roughly the same answer every time.

A room full of kids.

Rows of boards.

Someone explaining openings.

A tournament at the end of the week.

And to be clear, there's nothing wrong with that.

There's a question I get asked pretty often.

"What does going to a baseball game have to do with chess?"

On paper, not much.

One has sixty-four squares. The other has ninety feet between bases.

But that's kind of the point.