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Brooklyn Castle

Brooklyn Castle is a documentary about I.S. 318, an inner-city school with more than 65 percent of students coming from families with incomes below the federal poverty line that also happens to have the best and most successful junior high school chess team in the country. (If Albert Einstein, who was rated 1800, joined the team, he would only be ranked fifth best.) Chess has transformed the school from a "school in need of improvement" in 2003 to one of New York City's best. However, a series of recession-related cuts to public school budgets now threaten to undo those hard-won gains.

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