We spoke with Iowa State Middle School Chess Champion Kelton Holm about his chess journey, favorite chess players, and how he likes to spend his time away from the chess...
Six Things IM Oladapo Adu Wishes He Knew as a Young Chess Player
International Master and Silver Knights chess coach Oladapo Adu is a great resource for chess players of all ages and skill levels. Read his advice for scholastic chess players on...
Elite Academy student Gustav Wernevi won the middle school section of this year's Rhode Island Scholastic Chess Championship! We talked with Gustav about his experience at the tournament, favorite chess...
One of our chess students is Amelia (Mimi) Zhang, who just won the 2025 Virginia State K-3 Championships. Although she's one of our longtime students and we know her quite well,...
Congrats to Bijan Tahmassebi, the new MD State Champion!
A week ago, Maryland held the annual Maryland Open, and has a new state champion: Bijan Tahmassebi! In a tough field, Bijan bounced back from an early loss and won his...
Bobby Fischer was the first player we followed in our online classes. There are many reasons to start with Fischer (including of course the chess), but that's not why we...
