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Ten Years of Coach Tanner!

Ten Years of Coach Tanner!

What have parents, kids, and schools said about learning chess with Tanner?
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Our in-person reopening plans

Our in-person reopening plans

After an extremely unusual and surprisingly successful year, we’re looking forward to resuming in-person programs.  Scratch that - we already started them up again on Monday at camp!  Today, we want...
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Stuart Rachels, US Champion Teaches Guest Lesson

Stuart Rachels, US Champion Teaches Guest Lesson

In 1990, when he was twenty years old, Stuart Rachels won the greatest upset in the history of the US Chess Championships.  Prior to that, he’d been the youngest master...
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Guest Instructors

Guest Instructors

What kinds of guest instructors have we had? The best female player of all time, a US Champion, stars of the documentary Brooklyn Castle, former students who are masters, and...
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Five Numbers to Get Excited For Judit Polgars Visit

Five Numbers to Get Excited For Judit Polgars Visit

10: the number of World Champions Judit has beaten in competition If you include blitz games, you can add two more (Kramnik and Fischer) to the list, which means that she's...
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Surviving 2020 and Teaching Chess Online

March 2020 After a few weeks of increasingly ominous news, the world felt like it stopped spinning. It was scary for everyone, but Adam and I had an additional reason:...
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