Downtown and Jersey City Instructor Robert Chen, frequently known as “Master Wu” has been playing and teaching chess in New York for 30+ years. He has known CEO National Master Evan Rabin since Evan was a teenager. Some of his playing highlights include tying for 3rd place in the 2019 Manhattan Classical Chess Championship U-1700 …
New York Instructor Justin Cao started working with us as a 2022 Summer Youth Employment Intern. As he did some amazing work, helping out at our camp, blogging, managing social media and much more, we decieded to hire him as an instructor in the 2022-2023 school year. He is now teaching for us at schools …
Brooklyn Instructor Steve Segarnick is a former New York City Department of Education Special Education Teacher. He has taught math and chess in middle and high schools for over 30 years. He played on the Brooklyn College Chess team in the late 1980s. Since working full-time, he has taught chess in variety of schools and yeshivas. …
Manhattan Instructor Lindsay Kornguth is an alum of the Berkley Chess School, where she learned with National Master Evan Rabin‘s Brandeis classmate Grandmaster Sam Shankland and Hans Niemann, who recently beat World Champion Magnus Carlsen. Her career higlights include a Girls’ California State Champion title, and placing on the US Chess top 60 players nationwide …
Jersey City Instructor Freddy Rodriguez is a product of the 1972 Fischer Spassky World Championship Match chess boom that led mim to complete in Elementary, Middle, and High School scholastic tournaments in New York. He studied with elite FIDE Senior Trainer Grandmaster Boris Gulko. Freddy’s chess career highlights include winning 3rd place in the 2002 …
Philadelphia Instructor Eren Yargici grew up playing chess in clubs and tournament in his native country of Turkey. He now competes in the Temple University team in the Colleagiate Chess League, which is organized by our our 170th Podcast guest Florian Helff. He is also the Temple Unversity Chess Club‘s Vice President. He is an active …
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 …
