IT2 Andrew Peraino after winning the 2020 Armed Forces Chess Championship. Andrew Peraino Photo
When Information Systems Technician 2nd Class Andrew Peraino was a Navy recruit, tucked away in his eyeglasses case was a set of paper pieces he had fashioned into a miniature chess board set.
In rare instances of downtime at Naval Training Center Great Lakes, Ill., Peraino would carefully unfold the checkered paper board, organize the small squares marked as individual chess pieces and challenge his...
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