Dave Bishop is a part-time chess coach at George B. Weatherbee School in Hampden, Me. as well as their custodian. He also coaches the nearby Reeds Brook Middle School team as well.

Inspired Life School custodian leads student chess teams to victory David Bishop -— who gets the joke about his last name — cleans classrooms, and also cleans up at chess tournaments, so to speak ...

AVERY: Yeah. Thank you. PFEIFFER: That was David Bishop, who coaches the chess team at George B. Weatherbee Elementary School in Hampton, Maine, and also Avery Zhang, who is a member of that team.

BISHOP: What I like about coaching the kids is seeing them go from, say, the K-2 level to where Avery is right now. Avery, for instance, has grown so much that his rating strength is higher than ...