The main objective of this program is to use chess as a tool to improve your child’s self confidence, imagination, concentration and intuition, while developing logical, critical thinking, and reasoning skills.
Chess teaches:
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Independence
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Memory & Concentration
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Logical thinking
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Imagination & creativity
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Self-motivation
Kids use their own judgement to make decisions. During the game. they are focused. Chess requires some understanding of logical strategy. It encourages children to be inventive. Teaches the capability to predict and foresee consequences of actions. It encourages the search for the best move, the best plan. And that success has big rewards.
The Class
Chess Levels:
Level 1:
5 to 6 years old - Kids will be introduced to the pieces : pawn, rock and bishop. The program will give them effective and appropriate tools to make them understand how to move those pieces and how they interrelate in order to maintain positions.
Level 2:
7 to 8 years old - Kids will be introduced to the queen, horse and king. They will learn how to move those pieces and how the big picture looks with all the pieces.
Level 3:
8 to 10 - Kids will develop strategies to create positions on the board. This level is for advanced students.
Level 4 to 6:
These are advance levels, where kids plan completed strategies and develop the game.
The course follows a project-task approach, and has appropriate activities according to the student's age and level.
After School Program - CHESS CLUBS
The program is available Mondays to Saturdays:
in WESTON, PEMBROKE PINES, COOPER CITY, DAVIE, COCONUT GROVE, FORT LAUDERDALE, HOLLYWOOD, BOCA RATON, MIRAMAR, STUART, DORAL
For more information contact us
Prices
Annual Registration Fee $55
Private Sessions
Call us to make an appointment to get your first class.
THE CHESS COACH
Julian Banos
Economist. MBA Marketing. University professor. Being a father he discovered his passion for teaching children. After ten years studying the chess program ,and seeing how important it is in the development of the children, he decided to start the program in the US. ChessArt started in 2005 and now has more than 250 students.