FIDE Trainer offers professional chess lessons at King's Land Chess (Danville/San Ramon/Dublin/Pleasanton

In January 2017, King's Land Chess has relocated to northern California East Bay San Ramon area

from southern California.
(Danville/San Ramon/Pleasanton/Dublin)

Small group chess lessons are offering for youth players in Danville/San Ramon/Dublin/Pleasanton area.
Lessons will be taught by World Chess Federation certified FIDE Trainer Kiki Chen.

Four levels lessons are available, Entry level, Intermediate I, Intermediate II, and Advanced I.

About King's Land chess

King’s Land Chess (KLC) is a NorCal East Bay San Ramon (Danville/San Ramon/ Pleasanton/Dublin area) based chess academy focused on youth chess education, founded by FIDE Trainer Kiki Chen in 2012. To commit the mission of promoting development of chess in the lives of children, we offer professional chess lessons for youth players from beginner to master level, after school chess programs and chess summer/winter camps. KLC is also committed to promote chess cultural exchange program and build the bridge between China and US chess players.

About Chess Coach

FIDE Trainer Kiki Chen is professional chess coach and USCF advanced level coach. She was the captain of China national youth team, with title of Chess Master of CCA. She completed her certification in a Seminar for Coaches recognized by World Chess Federation, FIDE (The Fédération Internationale des Échecs ).

In over ten years, coach Kiki Chen has trained 1000+ youth chess players in US and China. Her students have won numerous prizes in local, state, national and international chess tournaments, many students won champions and national champions. Dozens of students rank top 100 in different age-group US chess player lists. About a dozen students are qualified for US national team.

Studies Chess is not just any board game. It is a spiritual sport which reasonably is considered the expression of spiritual athleticism for centuries. It is maybe the only human invention, that really gets away from the tyranny of luck and grants the glory of victory only to superior intelligence. We would offend chess if we called it just a 'game'. The way it has developed, it is also a science, an art.

If we wished to defined the identity of chess, we should present it as a game-sport, with scientific structure, with fine art features, which stresses cultural and recreational components, with strong social interest and a very important influence on education. SO, chess is all these combined, but it is even more. It is a way to live.

Chess theory consists of a whole philosophy, which teaches how to face even the most difficult of situations, always depending on our abilities, as they have been cultivated through chess. This is why millions of people around the world, learn to play chess and never abandon it.

Why Chess for Youth

Chess, as a sport and science, offers the most in the teaching process and spiritual development, at each level of education.

● Teaches us to work in a resourceful and scientific manner.
● Teaches self-control.
● Nurtures moral values, such as determination, diligence, assiduity,
self-criticism and objectivity.
● Advances social integration, through working in groups, taking
responsibilities and imparting knowledge and experience.
● Absorbs aggression and helps in understanding and getting familiar with
methodical ways of thinking.
● Improves the length of metal concentration and working.
● Develops critical thinking, as the chess player works on observing, comparing,
classifying, prioritizing, assuming and predicting, analyzing and verifying.
● Improves the abilities of memory and creative imagination.
● Develops logical-mathematical thinking and ability in problem solving.
● Teaches attaining desirable goals, through the development of individual skills,
without the interference of any kind of luck.

Studies in American universities have shown that the students who play chess have a higher performance in their finals by about 17%.