chess kids runs tournaments in tasmania, victoria, western australia, south australia and occasionally the northern territory. most of the participants are between 7 and 14 years of age. in the april 2008 issue of "teacher" magazine, chess kids' founder and chess enthusiast, david cordover wrote that during the five years since the founding of the tournaments, participation in the tournaments had grown from 821 children the first year to over 9,000 students competing.