The Chess Academy
The Chess Academy was founded with the goals of teaching international chess to children and most importantly building children’s character through chess. Chess requires a good understanding of the game, competing, learning from mistakes and challenging oneself. Through this process, children will undoubtedly acquire invaluable skills sets such as developing stronger spatial reasoning, attention span, sportsmanship and confidence.
The program strives to teach these valuable skills by:
- Nurturing sportsmanship and planning
- Training patience and good decision making
- Guiding students in a positive manner
- Encouraging students to learn from mistakes
The Chess Academy provides the most comprehensive program for children to develop and practice these skill sets. Besides instructional classes, they will also provide various opportunities for children compete: from less formal weekly mini quad tournaments to more official larger scale interscholastic championships.
Tournaments: The Chess Academy is extremely experienced in running open tournaments. They offer multiple tournaments throughout the course of the year and they believe tournament is the most important way to develop a student’s chess ability and establish a chess rating. This is also fun, social activity where students often make new friends.
Quads: The Chess Academy hosts regular mini quad which they believe is an excellent way to practice tournament skills by competing against similar level students and learn about the etiquette of competition.
Camps: The Chess Academy also organizes holiday and term break chess camps for students to intensively improve their skills and explore specific topics of chess.
Here is the list of tournament hosted by The Chess Academy every year:
Name of the tournament Time
Beginners Tournament Every March/ April
The ISF Academy Chess Open Every March
Hong Kong Scholastic Championship Every June
Novice Tournament Every November
End Of Year Tournament Every December
Students of different levels will meet once a week to learn about the different aspects of chess. The Chess Academy will also have a regular chess club session on every Sunday to encourage play and to provide plenty of opportunities for students to compete and to enjoy the game.
For more details, please call 3480 4199 or Email to info@activekidshk.com
Image Credit: The Chess Academy
Contacts
+(852) 3480 4199
info@activekidshk.com
Links
Address
Hong KongActiveKids Learning Center Unit A, 1/F, Nan Sang Building, 86 Belcher’s Street, Kennedy Town, Hong Kong