The chess team from the Russell Byers Charter School in Center City left Thursday morning for a national competition in Nashville.
RELATED: Meet the Byers School chess team. Denise James reports.
As Action News reported this week, the team won the state title, but needed to raise $10,000 to go to nationals.
As it turns out, an Action News viewer came through with half the money, and the team raised the rest.
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