Building Minds with Chess at Southern University Southern University in Baton Rouge has a strong belief in chess as a tool to improve study results. Thus Business Meets Chess & Kids came on a visit to show the award winning short movie Building Minds with Chess plus a talk on how Chessthinking can change your life and a simultaneous exhibition by GM Pontus Carlsson. It was a very successful morning and the chessclub at the university got many new members that day. GM Pontus Carlsson with the president of the Southern University Chess Club Nolan Johnson With him the GM had the board members Dr. Ken Mask and Dr. Greg Ward who together with Southerns team did a great job in organizing the event. The chess coach Kendrick Perkins and National Master Rene Phillips also made important contributions to the successful event.