Revealing the Power of Chess to the World of Business & Finance
Chess Lessons for Finance Professionals by Evan Rabin
Premier Chess First Annual Grand Prix Series Standings
Premier Chess has had a wonderful turnout in its first annual Grand Prix Series. Hosted by Grace Church School and Brooklyn Friends School, the series of tournaments has featured 44 competitors to date. The final tournament will be held on Sunday June 2, at the Grace Church School, in the heart of New York City …
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Politics and Chess
From playing chess, I have learned two practices that I use in my working life—teamwork and the act of strategizing. In chess, each player has 16 pieces to work with. A chess player learns how to use a “team” of pieces to accomplish the task at hand—get to checkmate. In politics and local government, teamwork …
Grateful for Chess in Tanzania!
An Interview with Christopher, Make a Difference Now Student at Royal School of HIMO by Jack Mo, 1st Annual Make a Difference in Africa Trip Volunteer (June 11-18, 2018) I am a Penn States student, who enjoyed being one of the volunteers on the 1st Annual Make a Difference in Africa trip in June, 2018. …
Premier Chess Partners with Make a Difference Now and Metro World Child!
The1st Annual Grace Church and Brooklyn Friends Grand Prix Tournament #6 will be taking place on June 2nd. I know it’s in the following month but these short summer days are flying by, you are gonna one mark this one down on your calendar. Special thanks to the Make A Difference foundation who has helped to plan …
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Premier Chess At The “2019 Vesuvio Chess Festival”
It was during Evan’s trip to Italy that Premier Chess’ Facebook page hit 7600 likes. He shared a lot of his experience throughout the country through Premier Chess’ social media, that’s why you should all follow us here! He’s played in the strongest section of the tournament. Indeed his two losses were against International Masters, …
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An Abundant Life – Life Skills
An Abundant Life – Life Skills
Chess Trivia Post 1: What Came First- Chess or Checkers?
Jonathan Rothschild, Mayor of Tucson told the students at our Sonoran Science Academy camp last year “You play checkers; I’ll play chess.” Chess, as I’m sure you all know, is a two player board game a played on a 64 square board, 8 squares on each side, and each players starts with 16 pieces. Checkers is …
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Seeing a Premier Chess Class for the First Time… (at 10 a.m)
My fellow Premier Chess Intern Janell Warner and I was lucky enough to come view one of Premier Chess’s elective classes at Grace Church Middle School in Downtown in Manhattan this morning. This program is less intensive compared to other programs offered by Premier Chess such as curriculum courses and after school programs. Regardless, the kids …
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Nutrition and Chess
The Right Way To Feed Your Focus What to eat to boost your critical thinking for your next chess game. By: Brigitte Zeitlin, MPH, RD, CDN We all know that the brain is kind of a big deal, right?! It is the control center of your entire body. It tells us how to move, when …