This is almost funny.

A homeschooled group of kids played chess in the league for years, and won the championship. Then, the next year, they changed the rules so they couldn't enter.

All the homeschooled kids were from the same area, but they changed the rules - uh - in case they weren't?

"Roger Brownell, a homeschool parent in Tucson who was on a state chess committee looking into the matter, agreed with the final ruling. If homeschool students were allowed to form teams, he said, it would be like allowing sport teams to take students from any geographical area.

But homeschool proponents look at the chess world as way behind the times, especially since public education has changed so much with increasing numbers of charter and magnet schools, which take students from all over, just like private and parochial schools."

Homeschooled chess team not allowed to defend Championship title