Your Chess Coach
My husband and I own Your Chess Coach, a company devoted to teaching children how to play chess. There are so many life lessons that can be learned from the game:
• Tactical and logical thinking
• Formulating plans and carrying them through
• Patience
• Ability to concentrate
• Memory
• Imagination
• Independent thinking and self motivation
• Analyzing positions and evaluating them on a continual basis
• Spatial relations
• Pattern recognition
• Importance of timing and gaining tempo
• Visualizing goals and achieving them
• Learning to differentiate between positions and scenarios
• Selecting importance levels when making decisions
• Focusing attention
• Problem solving
• Thinking outside the box
When I started listing them I realized that chess should be taught in every school and should be a part of every child's educational experience. Imagine what kind of creative problem solvers our next generation could be if they had the skills one learns over a chess board!
We teach private lessons locally, group classes in schools and lessons over the net to remote locations.