LEARN CHESS IN 3 ZOOM SESSIONS
Our Story
I got thrown into the deep end of teaching chess in 2015 at a charter school network in Harlem that includes chess in its core curriculum. Asked why she made this decision, the network’s CEO replied, “Because chess is thinking.” We couldn’t agree more.
However, already during my teacher training back then it struck me as odd—even newsworthy—that there was no widely-recognized pedagogy for introducing chess to beginners! After all, over half a billion people play chess, and there are more resources devoted to chess improvement than to almost any other human endeavor. But fewer than one percent of those resources address the first hurdle: learning how chess the pieces move. As a result, most would-be chess players get bored or frustrated before they ever get to the magic of the game.
Our Method
So we focus on this vital first step of the journey. In fact, we have grown along with our students to provide a complete environment for chess mastery, but we are still mission-driven to be the world’s most effective on-ramp for chess.
Key components of our successful method include:
(1) Story. The human brain is wired to learn through stories, which help organize information in memorable ways. We use three colorful vignettes in three sessions that comprise a complete and memorable introduction to the game.
(2) Laser Beams. Chess pieces have laser beams—invisible laser beams that control the chessboard! Most players just see where the pieces are. But good and great players “see” the laser beams. We teach our students to see the laser beams.
(3) Efficiencies. We have identified “efficiencies” in chess—chess skills that pack together large quantities of mutually-reinforcing information in an otherwise streamlined manner. We teach these important skills right from the start. Students learn better by thinking than by memorizing!
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“A breakthrough in chess education”