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Sign UP! For the 16th Annual All Scholastic Chess Tournament May 17, 2025
2024 Sonoma County Tournament Results 900 248 Chess Club For Kids

2024 Sonoma County Tournament Results

Congratulations to everyone who came out to participate and make for a great chess community event! 2024 15th Annual Scholastic Chess Tournament Remember!  Even thought we love rewarding all our top players for their chess excellence, we reward everyone who comes and we acknowledge all our players and think they are just the bees-knees for coming out,…

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2023 Sonoma County Tournament Results 900 248 Chess Club For Kids

2023 Sonoma County Tournament Results

Congratulations to everyone who came out to participate and make for a great chess community event! 2023. May 20 14th Annual Scholastic Chess Tournament [twocol_one] Austin Creek Anakin Yin Yuchen Yan Browns Valley Clive Neubauer Cesar Chavez Vincent Malvino Corona Creek Angela Quan Lucas Tarvin Nathaniel Schroeder French American Leux Chang Smith Lily Shapiro Hidden…

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2022 Sonoma County Tournament Results 900 248 Chess Club For Kids

2022 Sonoma County Tournament Results

Congratulations to everyone who came out to participate and make for a great chess community event! 2022. May 28 13th Annual Scholastic Chess Tournament [twocol_one] Cesar Chavez Joaquin Ford, Micah Mertz, DanielVasquez Hidden Valley Lexa Satow Mary Collins Jeremiah Johnson, Jakob Seitchek McKinley Harper Holte, Grant Sanders Northwest Prep Paxton Leras Saint Vincent Audrey Petersen…

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2020 Girls Tournament Results 900 629 Chess Club For Kids

2020 Girls Tournament Results

Congratulations to everyone who came out to participate and make for a great chess community event!

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In Honor of our Dear Friend and Teacher, Richard Gentner 150 150 Chess Club For Kids

In Honor of our Dear Friend and Teacher, Richard Gentner

On the morning of October 15, we were saddened to hear that our beloved instructor Richard Gentner passed away on October 14. We were devastated to lose our longest-tenured instructor who was with us from our beginning in 2007. Richard taught hundreds of students at sister schools Yulupa and Strawberry. When students graduated from Yulupa…

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2019 Napa County Tournament Results 900 248 Chess Club For Kids

2019 Napa County Tournament Results

Congratulations to everyone who came out to participate and make for a great chess community event! 2019 Annual NAPA Chess Tournament Winners [twocol_one] Alta Heights Richard Billings Austin Creek Gurshaan Mahli Osacar Urioste Browns Valley Jackson Holley Ahren Kopf Cali Carlo Galazzo Teneli Galli Evergreen Sethu Ramu Live Oak Chase Gordon Mary Collins Jeremiah Johnson…

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Found at our Chess Tournament…. 544 710 Chess Club For Kids

Found at our Chess Tournament….

Today after the tournament (May 11, 2019), while we were cleaning up, one of our instructors found this little note folded up very tightly. The words and their sentiment were unexpected but this little heartfelt message to some little boy or girl to themselves was so sweet we had to share them: Transcribed, it reads:…

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2019 Sonoma County Tournament Results 900 248 Chess Club For Kids

2019 Sonoma County Tournament Results

Congratulations to everyone who came out to participate and make for a great chess community event! 2018 Annual Chess Tournament Winners [twocol_one] Apple Blossom Caspian Hergenrather Jiraiya Hergenrather Finn Williams Austin Creek Jasper Ding Josh Ma Gurshaan Malhi Cali Giada Galazzo Niko Lua Cesar Chavez Vincent Malvino Aidan Rehberg French American Adam Chang Daniel Chang…

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2019 Girls Tournament Results 900 629 Chess Club For Kids

2019 Girls Tournament Results

Congratulations to everyone who came out to participate and make for a great chess community event!

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David E. Hill 506 900 Chess Club For Kids

David E. Hill

David E. Hill, Chess Instructor, Par Excellence 1/16/68 – 10/18/18 My memories of David were that he was a gentle soul with a kind heart. David was well liked by all the chess instructors and especially the students he taught to play chess. I worked with David in several classes and witnessed first hand his…

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Thank you, Richard, for over “10 years of Chess for Kids” Service! 900 675 Chess Club For Kids

Thank you, Richard, for over “10 years of Chess for Kids” Service!

Richard Gentner has been with Chess For Kids for over 10 years! Two of his students, Haley and Jake, gave this “Trophy” to Richard at their most recent class:

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2018 Napa County Tournament Results 900 248 Chess Club For Kids

2018 Napa County Tournament Results

Congratulations to everyone who came out to participate and make for a great chess community event! 2018 Annual Chess Tournament Winners [twocol_one] Alta Heights Enzo Galante Austin Creek Ryan Huang Cali Brielle Galli Canyon Oaks Zachary Zane Corona Creek Alessio Cacchi Live Oak Caetano Walsh [/twocol_one] [twocol_one_last] Meadow Nisheet Rajgure Mount George Julian Damron Henry…

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2018 Sonoma County Tournament Results 900 248 Chess Club For Kids

2018 Sonoma County Tournament Results

Congratulations to everyone who came out to participate and make for a great chess community event! 2018 Annual Chess Tournament Winners [twocol_one] Apple Blossom Caspian Hergenrather Finn Williams Austin Creek Josh Ma Brush Creek Ronin Acosta James Mira Cali Giada Galazzo Teneli Galli Niko Lua Gavin Rosenbaugh Cesar Chavez Elisha Johnson Vincent Malvino Evergreen Maxwell…

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Girls Tournament 2018 900 672 Chess Club For Kids

Girls Tournament 2018

All skill levels are welcome as this is a fun event designed to improve skills, self confidence, self esteem.  Over one quarter of the attendees will walk away with a trophy and everybody will get a prize!

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2018 Girls Tournament Results 900 629 Chess Club For Kids

2018 Girls Tournament Results

Congratulations to everyone who came out to participate and make for a great chess community event!

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How To Teach Chess To Your Kids 900 506 Chess Club For Kids

How To Teach Chess To Your Kids

Parents ask us how they can get more involved with their child’s chess experience and education. Chess is a wonderful game that offers numerous benefits for kids, such as improved critical thinking, concentration, problem-solving skills, and strategic planning. Teaching your child chess not only introduces them to a captivating game but also helps nurture important…

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Phiona Mutesi, “The Queen of Katwe”, visits Sonoma County’s Chess For Kids 900 675 Chess Club For Kids

Phiona Mutesi, “The Queen of Katwe”, visits Sonoma County’s Chess For Kids

From THE PRESS DEMOCRAT: Phiona Mutesi, whose aptitude for the game of chess took her from an impoverished African slum and transformed her into the Queen of Katwe, the subject of a Hollywood movie, shared the inspiring story of her life Saturday with a group of young students in Rohnert Park. “Chess has given me…

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SOLD OUT: Meet the real Queen Of Katwe! 711 518 Chess Club For Kids

SOLD OUT: Meet the real Queen Of Katwe!

The real “Queen Of Katwe”, Phiona Mutesi, is coming to Santa Rosa to visit interested Chess Club For Kids members and family. We are also very fortunate to have Robert Katende , and Benjamin Mukumbya as well. [button link=”http://chessclubforkids.com/shop/events/simultaneous-exhibition/meet-the-queen-of-katwe/”]Sign Up[/button] Attending this event will be a life inspiring moment your family will remember forever, as Phiona’s…

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We’re Hiring for the next School Year 512 516 Chess Club For Kids

We’re Hiring for the next School Year

We’re always growing and always looking for people who are good with kids and love chess. Join us!

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2017 Sonoma County Tournament Results 900 675 Chess Club For Kids

2017 Sonoma County Tournament Results

Congratulations to everyone who came out to participate and make for a great chess community event! 2017 9th Annual Chess Tournament Winners Apple Blossom Caspian Hergenrather Jiraiya Hergenrather  John Wilkinson  Austin Creek Gurshaan Mahli  Zeqi Yin  Cali Miles Dudley  Kira Furmankiewicz  Giada Galazzo  Cooper Kurczerski  Liam Morrison  Gavin Rosenbaugh   French American Adam Chang   Daniel…

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2017 Girls Tournament Results 900 629 Chess Club For Kids

2017 Girls Tournament Results

Congratulations to everyone who came out to participate and make for a great chess community event!

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Grandmasters Akobian & Petrosian play Sonoma County Chess For Kids Students 800 548 Chess Club For Kids

Grandmasters Akobian & Petrosian play Sonoma County Chess For Kids Students

[twocol_one][/twocol_one] [twocol_one_last][/twocol_one_last]On Monday, June 6th 2016, Sonoma County’s Chess Club for Kids play two of the best chess players in the world! Sonoma County’s Chess For Kids gives a big THANK YOU to Tigran Petrosian, Varuzhan Akobian and to orgnaizer Thomas Southerland who donated all proceeds to our Chess for Kids’ scholarship program. https://youtu.be/ZiP4XZ_y8EU Petrosian,…

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2016 Napa County Tournament Winners 900 675 Chess Club For Kids

2016 Napa County Tournament Winners

Thanks to all who attended the Napa County Tournament Below are the winners of the 3rd Annual All Scholastic Chess Tournament in Napa Browns Valley Gabriel Reyes Cali William Morrison Pradyun Kotcherelakota Hidden Valley Satellite Jack Driscoll Keon Thom Live Oak Chase Gordon James Barberio Lucian Condon McNear Grant Henry Grant Sanders Oak Grove Catcher Bettinelli…

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2016 Sonoma County Tournament Winners 900 675 Chess Club For Kids

2016 Sonoma County Tournament Winners

Here are the winners of the 8th Annual All Scholastic Chess Tournament: Apple Blossom Caspian Hergenrather Ardenwood Sadhana Arivoli Cali Gabriel Smith David Salazar Luke Dougherty Maddox Tucker Cooper Kurczeski Corona Creek Edwin Gant Hidden Valley Dylan DeCastro Parker Frere Hidden Valley Satellite Alexander Sae Keon Thom Live Oak Lucian Condon Mary Collins Daniel Gibson…

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2016 All Scholastic Tournament Photos 640 480 Chess Club For Kids

2016 All Scholastic Tournament Photos
2016 Girls Tournament Photos 675 900 Chess Club For Kids

2016 Girls Tournament Photos
2016 Girls Tournament Results 900 629 Chess Club For Kids

2016 Girls Tournament Results

Congratulations to everyone who came out to participate and make for a great chess community event! 2016 7th Annual All Girls Chess Tournament Winners Ardenwood – Sadhana Arivoli Cali – Cheyenne Tucker Cali – Teneli Galli Corona Creek – Jessica Naworski French- American Nayla Makinano Live Oak – Mila Geiser Penngrove – Addie Mills Reach…

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2015 Girls Tournament Photos 675 900 Chess Club For Kids

2015 Girls Tournament Photos
CalNorth Chess Events 900 353 Chess Club For Kids

CalNorth Chess Events

CalNorth Chess Please visit our sister site with listing of tournaments and chess events all throughout Northern California:

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Luke and the “History of Chess” 900 675 Chess Club For Kids

Luke and the “History of Chess”

Just a note of thanks. Yesterday’s class was a turning point: Luke brought up his class at dinner and the history of chess – let’s just say mom and dad were both blown away! And now, he’s playing on our computer. – Shelia

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2015 Napa County Tournament Results 900 248 Chess Club For Kids

2015 Napa County Tournament Results

Congratulations to everyone who came out to participate and make for a great chess community event! 2015 Annual Chess Tournament Winners Thank you to William, Deanna, Jim, and David who helped at the tournament. They carried the load to compensate for my immobilization due to a broken leg and sprained ankle sustained in a very…

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2015 Sonoma County Tournament Results 900 248 Chess Club For Kids

2015 Sonoma County Tournament Results

Congratulations to everyone who came out to participate and make for a great chess community event! 2015 7th Annual Chess Tournament Winners Blue Oak Radin Amouei Browns Valley Brennecke Daley Cali Calmecac David Contreras William Morrison CAVA Derrell Jackson Grant Liam Vorhaus Hidden Valley Satellite Alexander Sae Keon Thom Joshua Lim Christian Oganesyan Kapil Dave’…

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2015 Girls Tournament Results 900 629 Chess Club For Kids

2015 Girls Tournament Results

Trophies 2014 Girls Chess Tournament   Congratulations to everyone who came out to participate and make for a great chess community event! 2015 6th Annual All Girls Chess Tournament Winners Sophia Piper – Browns Valley Sophia Olivera – Browns Valley Grace Balzer – Cali Calmecac Violet Vega – Cali Calmecac Josephine Hoagland – Hidden Valley…

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CHESS SETS MAKE GREAT GIFTS! 465 300 Chess Club For Kids

CHESS SETS MAKE GREAT GIFTS!

Chess sets make great gifts Any time of Year! Order through our website and we’ll receive points towards the cost of chess equipment for our program. The sets come in different colors with handy carrying bags. The best deal are the sets that come with the “Missing Piece Guarantee”. [button bg_color=”#5A6F43″ link=”http://www.wholesalechess.com?utm_source=Wholesale+Chess&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=marc.chessforkids@gmail.com”]Order Your Chess Set…

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Chess Leaves the Board 606 566 Chess Club For Kids

Chess Leaves the Board

It’s always fun to see how chess leaves the chess board and enters kid’s lives in different ways… Typically, we think of chess as helping students with just critical and logical thinking skills. But here is evidence that it can inspire students to pick up pens, pencils and paper for artistic expression as well –…

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Napa Tournament Results 2014 900 585 Chess Club For Kids

Napa Tournament Results 2014

The 1st Annual Napa All Scholastic Chess Tournament was a great success! 48 players from three counties and 18 schools. The winners: Browns Valley Radin Amouei – grade 5 George Boyce – Grade 5 Liam Daley – grade 1 Jack Duffy – grade 4 Andre Oliviera – grade 4 Grant Liam Vorhaus – grade 1…

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Nothing Better than a Chess Trophy… 900 595 Chess Club For Kids

Nothing Better than a Chess Trophy…

This young man won a trophy at the Napa tournament. He was so happy that he had to go to sleep with it.

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2014 Sonoma Tournament Results 900 585 Chess Club For Kids

2014 Sonoma Tournament Results

The tournament was a great success. We had 135 players from 51 schools from five counties. The winners: Yulupa -Vincent Kriner, Jake Joerger The Healdsburg School – Barry Liu, Chad Smith, Kaylin Smith, Noah Proctor Mary Collins – Burton Baecker, Eli Leventhal Live Oak – Rowan Ferraro Riebli – Joshua Geist, Kail Pieri, Jaren Zurakowski,…

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2014 Girls Tournament Results 900 672 Chess Club For Kids

2014 Girls Tournament Results

Trophies 2014 Girls Chess Tournament Congratulations to everyone who came out to participate and make for a great chess community event! 2014 All Girls Chess Tournament Winners: Brielle Galli – Cali Language Academy grade 1 Olivia Hansen Windsor Creek – grade 1 Zoe Kowalczyk – San Miguel grade 2 Luna Pichardo – Yulupa grade 2…

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$3 Pocket Chess Books 900 672 Chess Club For Kids

$3 Pocket Chess Books

Instant Download Designed for kids. Adults love them too Each pocket book is a highly optimized set of lessons that fits elegantly in your pocket. Anyone can learn from the picture based lessons while supporting text builds your chess vocabulary and deeper understanding. Download -> Print -> Fold Read -> Learn -> Share! [twocol_one] Add…

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2013 May Tournament Winners! 900 448 Chess Club For Kids

2013 May Tournament Winners!

[threecol_one] Apple Blossom: Ben Neargarder Jack Oliver Austin Creek: Michael Huang Terrence Wu Brush Creek Montessori: Kalen Humphrey Cali Calmecac Language Academy William Morrison Raymond Schweid Hahn: Felix Tong Lynwood in Novato: Max Gong Mark West: Sebastian Lopez Mary Collins at Cherry Valley: Jack Faris Joey McGill Elias Leventhal McNear School: Luca Binsfield-Debus Monte Vista:…

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Register Now 640 480 Chess Club For Kids

Register Now

CHESS FOR KIDS, Inc is a United States Chess Federation Affiliate, carries liability insurance, was featured in the Press Democrat in December 2007. We are dedicated to bringing the benefits of chess to as many young people as possible in Sonoma County. [button link=”http://signups.chessclubforkids.com/signups/select/1″ bg_color=”#5A6F43″ ]Register for a Class[/button] Over 2,000 children have participated in CHESS…

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The eye’s have it 500 313 Chess Club For Kids

The eye’s have it

Thursday, February 25, 2010 Every once in awhile, a photojournalist will capture an image that they really like. Images that will make the reader cry, fret, hate or laugh out loud. Pictures that wield an emotional comment have done their job. They have communicated. A myriad of daily assignments confront a newspaper photographer day in…

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8-year-old Champ 300 300 Chess Club For Kids

8-year-old Champ

Penngrove 8-year-old earns top honor in county tourney By Heidi Bailey  June 9, 2010 09:59 pm When most think of chess, the image of two old men sitting at a lone table with a stop clock comes to mind. Most would never think it could be a favorite game for children. But for one child in…

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Making chess come to life 445 334 Chess Club For Kids

Making chess come to life

Production of ‘Lords of the Board’ at Courthouse Square in Santa Rosa shows wonders of a strategic game By STEVE HART THE PRESS DEMOCRAT Published: Sunday, September 13, 2009 at 3:00 a.m. Last Modified: Sunday, September 13, 2009 at 9:33 p.m. It wasn’t your typical Sunday afternoon chess match at Santa Rosa’s Old Courthouse Square.…

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Santa Rosa students make their moves 445 296 Chess Club For Kids

Santa Rosa students make their moves

John Burgess/PD By KERRY BENEFIELD THE PRESS DEMOCRAT Published: Friday, January 30, 2009 at 3:00 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, January 30, 2009 at 11:24 p.m. More than 50 kids from eight Santa Rosa elementary schools went rook to rook, queen to queen Friday at the first ever all-district chess tournament. The play of Diego Avalos…

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All-girls’ chess match held in Santa Rosa 445 334 Chess Club For Kids

All-girls’ chess match held in Santa Rosa

Cassandra Wright, 6, expresses the many emotions of a tense chess game at Ursuline High School in Santa Rosa during a tournament put on by Chess for Kids Inc., of Santa Rosa. KENT PORTER/The Press Democrat By MARTIN ESPINOZA THE PRESS DEMOCRAT Published: Saturday, February 20, 2010 at 5:40 p.m. Last Modified: Saturday, February 20,…

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Family Fun Day marks grand opening of City Center Plaza 150 150 Chess Club For Kids

Family Fun Day marks grand opening of City Center Plaza

By Heidi Bailey It was nothing but fun last Saturday at Rohnert Park’s first Family Fun Day at the new City Center Plaza in downtown Rohnert Park. On a bright sunny morning, a crowd of people stood outside two stone pillars marking the entrance to the new park as RP Mayor Amie Breeze gave a…

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Your move, Rohnert Park 150 150 Chess Club For Kids

Your move, Rohnert Park

Nonprofit chess club begins classes at Boys and Girls Club By Heidi Bailey  September 10, 2009 08:48 pm Blitzing, blundering, blocking and attacking. No, its not football. It’s a game that’s been around for centuries known as chess. The thought of chess may bring images of old timers sitting around with their scotch and tobacco pipes,…

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Too young to learn? Nope! 150 150 Chess Club For Kids

Too young to learn? Nope!

I just taught my 6 year old niece to play chess… My family kept saying… “I don’t know, she’s still pretty young.” I said, “Don’t worry, she’ll understand what she understands and we won’t go any faster than that”. We played for over 4 hours! I thought “Should I bring out the standard vertical teaching…

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Simultaneous Games 150 150 Chess Club For Kids

Simultaneous Games

“A student that I have watched attend the Chess for kids workshops for several months played me in a with several other students. He came the closest out of all the kids, some of them several years older, to beating me. After class, I told his mother this and how impressed I was with his…

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Chess For Kids Trophies
2013 Girls Tournament Photos 900 672 Chess Club For Kids

2013 Girls Tournament Photos

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2013 All Girls Chess Tournament 900 602 Chess Club For Kids

2013 All Girls Chess Tournament

[twocol_one] [/twocol_one] [twocol_one_last]4th All Girls Chess Tournament February 9, 2013 Grades: K-12 Saturday, February 9, 2013 Arrive at 9:15am for a 10am start Location: Former Ursuline HS, 90 Ursuline Road, Santa Rosa Fee: $20.00 [/twocol_one_last] [button link=”http://signups.chessclubforkids.com/signups/signup/82″ bg_color=”#5A6F43″]Register Now[/button] All ages and skill levels are welcome. This is a fun low key competitive event designed…

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2012 Tournament Photos 640 478 Chess Club For Kids

2012 Tournament Photos

Here’s a peek at the 2012 All Scholastic Tournament

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A Review of Key Chess Studies 150 150 Chess Club For Kids

A Review of Key Chess Studies

SUMMARY: Langen (1992) claims that “children who learn chess at an early age achieve more in the traditional maths and sciences. Chinese, European and American research all find significant correlational values after just one year of systematic chess exposure.” Langen also states: “The most striking benefits are those associated with problem-solving and creativity.”

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Chess and Standard Test Scores 150 150 Chess Club For Kids

Chess and Standard Test Scores

SUMMARY: Regular (non-honors) Elementary students who participated in a school Chess Club showed twice the improvement of non-chess players in Reading and Mathematics between third and fifth grades on the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills. In fifth grade, regular track chess players scored 4.3 TLI points higher in Reading (p

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Academic Correlations 150 150 Chess Club For Kids

Academic Correlations

Chess and Education by John Artise The game of chess makes one of the most important contributions to the field of education. Inherent in it are the basic principles of psychological learning theory: Memory, Pattern Recognition, Decision making, and Reinforcement. All of these variables interact during a game of chess and produce the results of…

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