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A | （新加坡讯）新加坡监狱署将首次派出一支由8名囚犯组成的队伍，参加洲际囚犯国际象棋锦标赛。

B | 《8视界新闻网》报道，洲际囚犯国际象棋锦标赛由世界国际象棋联合会、美国芝加哥库克县警察局联合组织，参赛选手于10月8日至10日，与其他国家队伍线上对决。为了挑选最优秀的参赛代表，新加坡监狱署本月25日下午举办内部选拔赛，从26名囚犯中选出8人组成代表队，其中4人为正选，4人为替补。这8名囚犯将接受新加坡国际象棋联合会的密集培训，以备战这一国际赛事。

C | 新加坡监狱署自2023年8月起，与新加坡国际象棋联合会合作，在当地樟宜监狱看守最严的B1狱所内推出“Chess for Freedom”计划，利用国际象棋帮助囚犯康复更生、减少再犯率。 LOS ANGELES -- A U.S. Navy sailor charged with providing sensitive military information to China pleaded guilty in Los Angeles on Tuesday to conspiring with a foreign intelligence officer and receiving a bribe, federal prosecutors said. Petty Officer Wenheng Zhao, 26, originally pleaded not guilty when he was charged Aug. 4. The Justice Department alleges that Zhao, based at Naval Base Ventura County, north of Los Angeles, conspired to collect nearly $15,000 in bribes from a Chinese intelligence officer in exchange for information, photos and videos of involving Navy exercises, operations and facilities.The information included plans for a large-scale U.S. military exercise in the Indo-Pacific region, which detailed the location and timing of naval force movements, prosecutors said. The Chinese officer told Zhao the information was needed for maritime economic research to inform investment decisions, according to the indictment.Zhao, who also went by the name Thomas Zhao and held a U.S. security clearance, “admitted he engaged in a corrupt scheme to collect and transmit sensitive U.S. military information to the intelligence officer in violation of his official duties,” the U.S. Attorney's Office said in a news release Tuesday. Zhao, of Monterey Park, California, faces a statutory maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison. He has been in custody since his arrest on Aug. 3.Zhao was charged on the same day as another California-based Navy sailor who is accused of similar crimes. But they are separate cases, and federal officials haven't said if the two were courted or paid by the same Chinese intelligence officer as part of a larger scheme. Jinchao Wei, a 22-year-old assigned to the San Diego-based USS Essex, is charged with providing detailed information on the weapons systems and aircraft aboard the Essex and other amphibious assault ships that act as small aircraft carriers. He pleaded not guilty in federal court in San Diego. Last week, a former U.S. Army intelligence officer was charged in Seattle with attempting to provide classified defense information to the Chinese security services during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Sgt. Joseph Daniel Schmidt, 29, was arrested Oct. 6 at San Francisco International Airport as he arrived from Hong Kong, where he had been living since March 2020, the Justice Department said. A federal grand jury returned an indictment charging him with retention and attempted delivery of national defense information. U.S. District Court records in Seattle did not yet list an attorney representing Schmidt on the charges, and neither the U.S. attorney’s office nor the federal public defender’s office had information about whether he had a lawyer.An FBI declaration filed in the case quoted Schmidt as telling his sister in an email that he left the U.S. because he disagreed with unspecified aspects of American policy.。

D | 此次派出囚犯参加国际赛事，是该计划的举措之一。新加坡监狱署高级惩教员林伟祥是上述计划的负责人之一，据他观察，国际象棋对囚犯的心理和行为改善有显著帮助。“囚犯常会认为他们在监狱官的对立面，所以经常有一些口角发生，但参加这个计划后，我们发现他们可以用更客观的角度去看和面对事情。”新加坡国际象棋协会首席执行长吴伟铭每周都会到B1狱所授课，内容包括策略学习、赛事复盘和实战演练。“囚犯非常喜爱这个体育，他们很认真上课，也非常专注练习。他们好几个跟我说，他们从国际象棋里学到每个错误都会有一个结果，所以做什么事情都会三思考虑。“林伟祥表示，许多囚犯对国际象棋表现出浓厚兴趣，并积极申请参与计划，然而，由于人数限制，最多只能容纳约30人。他说，狱所目前有31名囚犯活跃参与该计划，而计划启动以来，已吸引了58名囚犯参与。前嗜毒者：国际象棋能改善思维和记忆能力因长期使用毒品而入狱的丰（译自Feng）是参与该计划的囚犯之一。

E | 他表示，国际象棋改善了他的思维和记忆能力。“我在外面因为长期使用毒品，思维能力会比较欠佳，记忆力也不是很好。国际象棋步伐比较多，需要你的大脑想不同的可能性，所以自从玩国际象棋，我发现到我的思维能力有进步，记忆力也有增强。”他还提到，作为一个内向安静的人，国际象棋给了他与他人交朋友的机会。丰的积极表现，使他被提名为象棋指导员，负责行政和主持囚犯的象棋分享会。