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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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Boris
Gelfand tied second place with Vladimir Kramnik in World Chess
Championchip 2007 (Mexico). He is a leader of Israel team who won
Silver Medals on Chess Olympiad in Germany (2008).
Yury Shulman won US Chess..
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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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