Manhattan Instructor Daniel Babakhan has been playing chess for eight years. He orignally hails from the Boston area and now studies business and finance at Fordham University . His top chess achievements include tying for first place in the 2021 Philadelphia Open U-1500 section and second place in the 2016 World Open U-1200 section. He has been …
Manhattan Instructor Jeremiah Hosea has been teaching chess online and around the New York area for 18+ years. Get a sense of what it is like to learn with Jeremiah through this demo lesson with Stephanie Edmonds. Jeremiah is also a mixed bag of talents as a bassist, vocalist, producer, activist, and martial artist. See lots …
Long Island Instructor Candidate Master Brian Karen is ranked within the top 3% of tournament chess players by the United States Chess Federation (USCF) and Federation Internationale Des Échecs (FIDE). Brian has had to demonstrate exceptional instincts at motivating, relating to, and teaching children chess in order to succeed as a chess coach. Brian has …
Greater Philadelphia Area Instructor Anthony Durkin is the Director of the Delaware Valley Chess Club, where he runs tournaments and other great events. We are lucky to have him to teach school programs and private lessons in Philadelphia and it’s suburbs. Some of his greatest chess victories were tying for 5th place in the North Penn …
Philadelphia Instructor National Expert Angelo Dellomargio is an alumni of the perennial national championship winning Masterman school. He has taught in many Philadelphia schools, including Esperanza, and has trained several chess coaches and directed tournaments for After School Activity Partnerships . Some of his chess claims to fame include tying for first in the 2021 Mastermind …
Westchester Instructor Dr. Richard Lewis retired two years ago from his dentistry career and has since taught for us in several schools in Westchester and the Bronx. He taught International Master Yaacov Norowitz and our New Jersey Instructor Mikhail Kruglyak when they were children in Elizabeth, NJ. Learn more about him on our 180th podcast episode. We …
Assistant Philadelphia Instructor Emanuel Korn started playing chess three years ago ad has been passionate about the game very since. He has played in 18,000+ games on http://www.lichess.org. We are fortunate to have him as an assistant instructor for school programs and private lessons in the Philadelphia area When not teaching chess, he acts as the Director …
Greater New York Instructor National Master Gabe Ewing originally hails from New Mexico. In July, 2014 he tied for first place in the U-2200 section of the World Open and earned his National Master title. Before he moved to New York to start his job at Google, he was the second highest rated player in New …
Philadelphia Instructor Vanita Young has been teaching chess at the perennial National Championship school Masterman and several other Philadelphia schools for many years. In 2011, she won a $40,000 chess scholarship to Texas Tech University through the Susan Polgar Girls Invitational. In 2015, she and CEO Evan Rabin won clear 1st place Mixed Dobules at …
Brian Aiken came to us as a referral from Lucca Castrucci, the second instructor we hired. He is a passionate teacher and we are lucky to have him teaching school programs and private lessons in New York City and Jersey City. When not teaching chess, he is working on his Masters in Social Work at …
