After-school chess clubs

We have a team of qualified chess instructors to teach chess in Elementary and Middle schools. Our goal is to create a fun and challenging environment for developing important academic skills using game of chess as a tool. We also will encourage and help students who want to play in local or national scholastic chess tournaments.

Three Time US Women’s Champion, WGM Elena Donaldson has 15 years experience teaching local school and private students. Most of Elena’s private students became top players in the State in the Championship sections.

We offer:

1) Qualified and trained chess instructors,

2) We teach groups on all levels, or combined: Complete Beginners, Advanced Beginners, Intermediate/Advanced.

3) We provide “Chess Academy” workbooks on 7 levels, free for club participants. http://www.chessplayer.com/chessacademy.php

4) Instructors will be using our curriculum developed by WGM Elena Donaldson http://www.chessplayer.com/about_elena.htm , with everything students need to know as appropriate to their level.

5) We help parents with all questions on students’ chess improvement.

6) Unique LearnChess@home program with homework to interested students for better improvement, with Chess Academy workbooks, free

Class size: Minimum students: from 12 students in the class.

The fee is from $8 (Seattle) and $9 (Eastside, Northshore) per student for one 1-hr class, 8 classes minimum for each session. Email us to chess64@comcast.net for more information, details.