Chess Tutoring, Chess Coaching, Chess Classes with NM Will Stewart

  Imagine a world where people all have excellent problem solving skills, where they are patient and respectful of each other on a daily basis. A society where citizens live for the future and plan long term, thinking of where their children’s children will be, following through, seeing each goal to its conclusion with ease. Now add to that an indefinable quality of artistic imagination, dreaming for more than can be reasonably expected, reaching beyond [...]

  My husband and I met through chess in Los Angeles back in 1992 and fell madly in love at a tournament. We had both achieved the coveted level of “expert” with the United States Chess Federation and were running different chess magazines locally. Chess has always been a part of our lives. Fast forward twenty years – we have three young children. Four years ago I wondered if I could teach my son to play. He [...]

About Wesley So In this game Grandmaster Gadir Guseinov places the white pieces against Wesley So with the Black pieces at the 2009 World Cup. Wesley so is a TRUE chess prodigy, not only achieving the GM title at age 14 but maintaining the highest rated youth player in 2008 and 2009. In this game he just turned 16 but already had a FIDE approaching 2640! We caught up with Wesley So and he was [...]

I just had a recent interview with Daaim Shabazz of the Chessdrum.net and I wanted to share it with my fans on the site. You can find the original article here. Catching up with Kazim Gulamali Upon visiting the 2011 U.S. Open in Orlando, Florida, I caught up with my long-time friend FM Kazim Gulamali. Kazim is a New York-born, Atlanta-raised resident who began playing chess at the age of three. His father Mumtaz Yusef, a Pakistani immigrant, used [...]

The 2011 US Junior Championship kicked off on Thursday, June 16th.  Young and Harper lead with 2/2, chased by Naroditsky at 1.5/2. My pick to win is top-rated Daniel Naroditsky (and no it’s not because he did a couple of chess coaching videos for us, however Conrad Holt and John Bryant could give him trouble down the stretch. “The U.S. Junior Closed Championship is the most prestigious tournament in the country for the nation’s top [...]

Round 5 of the 5th Kings Bonza Tournament was full or more excitement with Carlsen continuing his solid dominance of the tournament, as well as an interesting game by Nakamura & Radjabov that ended in a draw brought about by Nakamura’s wild tactics Magnus Carlsen continues to dominate Magnus Carlsen demonstrates yet again what it takes to have the highest rating in the world with a convincing 31 move victory against 2660 Nisipeanu.  The game [...]

Why are some kids so good at chess? How do some chess prodigies that are barely 8,7 or even 6 years old manage to play chess at a master level with little formal chess coaching? How have they managed to accelerate their intellectual development in this specific field at such an exceptional rate?  What lessons can we learn from these prodigies and their secrets that we can use to teach better chess to all children?  [...]