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Kings & Queens
Chess Club |
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Building
your mind, increasing your ability to focus and solve problems |
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Educators around the world
acknowledge that chess is a powerful tool for developing higher order
thinking skills, creativity, numerical and verbal aptitudes, and memory
Kings & Queens Chess Club program helps children to build character
and strengthen and incorporate important moral values such as Courage,
Perseverance, and Honoring others
Starting with 20 chess players in 1989, today our club serves about 70
children in our Sunday and Wednesday classes every week as well as
providing chess instructions to hundreds of students at numerous school
sites and organizing Fall, Spring and Summer chess camps and Chess
tournament (Scholastic and Quick Chess). |
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Latest
News |
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Member of our club Eric Rosen was earning National Master Title
in the 110th United State Open Chess Championship. He collected 6,5
from 9 and tied for first in the Expert
Read More... |
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Our Mission |
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- To employ the benefits of chess for
achieving better results in other disciplines taught in regular
classrooms
- To teach the art and science of chess to
its students by providing them with expert instruction
- To organize opportunities for improving
students chess and interpersonal skills.These opportunities
include, but are not limited to, participation in tournaments,
matches, camps, exhibitions, tours, and access to lectures,
newsletters, magazines, books, and classes
- To promote a team spirit and to create a
winning team
- To help youth develop a widespread
interest and competence in the playing of chess that can capture
many children's imaginations, free time and wild energy!
- To provide an opportunity to Checkmate drugs, social
misconduct and violence
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Join
our success! |
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We welcome clubs, teams, families and individual
players as we strive to build and strengthen our Chess community
through mutual learning and support. |
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Links
www.
IllinoisChess.org * www.chessteachers.org * www.chessinchicago.org
* www.chessutopia.org
* www.thechessacademy.org
* www.renaissanceknights.org
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