By Olawa Gibson, Master Teacher at New American Academy Charter School “As we come to the end of our academic school year, I wanted to not only thank Premier Chess for providing the highest quality of chess instruction to our students, but to also share the impact that chess has had on our community via …
A Reflection on Virtual Learning from New American Academy Charter School Read More »
By Shai Hecker, Operations Intern As the pandemic progressed schools quickly switched to an online platform. Kids are no longer able to attend class in person and many parents are looking for online resources to keep their kids engaged. Although most schools have successfully managed to transfer to an online platform many camps have failed. …
By Shai Hecker, Operations Intern Samuel Reshevsky was a Polish Chess prodigy who became a chess grandmaster. Although he never won the World Chess Championship Tournament he did win the US Championship eight times. Here we have a picture of a young Samuel playing against multiple opponents. Larry Evans was an American chess player. However, …
Larry Evans Versus Samuel Reshevsky: A Throwback to the Past Read More »
By Shai Hecker, Operations Intern Since 2014 the World Chess Championship has been held every other year. The winner of the 2020 tournament would compete against Magnus Carlsen, the current world champion, in a championship match. Since the pandemic started all sporting events have been canceled except for chess. The chess tournament at the time …
By Shai Hecker, Operations Intern On June 2, 2020, Premier Chess’s students gathered on Chess.com to compete in a tournament against the DIG chess team. Before the tournament began Evan had a Zoom call with his students where he gave a short lesson. He began with 1. e4 e5 2. Qh5. He then asked students …
-by Shai Hecker, Operations Intern I began learning chess at around six years old. My father taught me how the pieces moved and that was about it. Every weekend my brother and I would sprawl out on the carpet play and play with our Scooby-Doo chess set. In elementary school I went to chess camp …
