July 30, 2021
Ten Years of Coach Tanner!
What have parents, kids, and schools said about learning chess with Tanner?
June 15, 2021
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...
March 24, 2021
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...
March 10, 2021
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...
February 05, 2021
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...
January 22, 2021
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:...