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At the 2018 US Chess Delegate's Meeting, in Middleton, Wisconsin, Dewain Barber was named "Dean of Scholastic Chess". Barber has been a tremendous advocate of scholastic chess in the United States and has contributed to the development of a national invitational events for middle school state champions.
A school of chess denotes a chess player or group of players that share common ideas about the strategy of the game. There have been several schools in the history of modern chess. Today there is less dependence on schools – players draw on many sources and play according to their personal style.
Academic Chess was founded by Eric Hicks, a native of Hawthorne, California and a high school dropout who discovered a talent for chess while playing the game on Santa Monica Beach. He was ranked among the top 100 players for his age group.
The Chess'n Math Association promotes chess at the scholastic level in Canada. Chess for Success is a program for at-risk schools in Oregon. [3] Since 1991, the U.S. Chess Center in Washington, D.C. teaches chess to children, especially those in the inner city, "as a means of improving their academic and social skills."
Shawn Means still remembers his first chess game back in person. The senior at Bard High School Early College Baltimore sat across from his teammate Aavo McClafferty earlier this year after ...
the chess program in the Intermediate School 318 is the best middle-school program in the United States, bar none. In fact, it is almost certainly the best scholastic chess program in the country at any grade level. [2] About half the school's students take chess classes. [8]
The Denker Tournament of High School Champions is a chess tournament that occurs annually in the United States alongside the US Open, the Dewain Barber National Tournament of Middle School State Champions, the Ruth Haring National Girls Tournament of Champions (RHNGTOC), and the John D. Rockefeller III National Tournament of Elementary School State Champions.
The Pan American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship is the foremost intercollegiate team chess championship in the Americas.Hosted in part by the United States Chess Federation, the Pan-Am Intercollegiate is open to any team comprising four players and up to two alternates from the same post-secondary school (university, college, community college) in North America, Central America, South ...