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[Vladimir Drkulec]

The Nova Scotia Department of Education is interested in supporting chess via an online/zoom teaching application. Any suggestions? I have experimented with Chesskid.com but no luck.

Why not use Zoom/Skype and Chessbase to deliver lectures? It works well for the Juniors to Masters program which Victoria Doknjas can fill you in on.

If you just want online resources chess.com and lichess.org have lots of bells and whistles. Chessable, now owned by chess.com is pretty good. Modern-chess.com, Limitlesschess (or improvemychess.com also by Mesgen Amanov), ForwardChess.com are all very useful sites. In most of those cases you have to buy things to get much use out of them.

For beginners this app is very interesting and entertaining:

www.chessmatec.com,

https://www.campus.chessmatec.com

Our contact there is Ariella Alterman daughter of the well known grandmaster who is also involved in this family business. We were talking to them in 2020 during the height of the pandemic. Vlad Rekhson was using it with some of his classes, I believe.

[Victoria Doknjas]

Why not use Zoom/Skype and Chessbase to deliver lectures? It works well for the Juniors to Masters program which Victoria Doknjas can fill you in on.

If you just want online resources chess.com and lichess.org have lots of bells and whistles. Chessable, now owned by chess.com is pretty good. Modern-chess.com, Limitlesschess (or improvemychess.com also by Mesgen Amanov), ForwardChess.com are all very useful sites. In most of those cases you have to buy things to get much use out of them.

For beginners this app is very interesting and entertaining:

www.chessmatec.com,

https://www.campus.chessmatec.com


Our contact there is Ariella Alterman daughter of the well known grandmaster who is also involved in this family business. We were talking to them in 2020 during the height of the pandemic. Vlad Rekhson was using it with some of his classes, I believe.

Hi Roger and Vlad:

It’s great to hear that the Nova Scotia Dept of Education is interested in supporting chess. Our Juniors to Masters Chess Academy Inc. led by Team Canada Head Coach GM Gergely Szabo has a full curriculum developed for multi-level chess instruction from beginner, intermediate, and elite levels which our JtM In-House Masters deliver online via Skype and with the use of ChessBase.

Roger: In order to better address your question, can you tell us a bit more about what NS Dept of Education’s requirements and goals are? e.g., Are they wanting:

1. A full curriculum for multi-level chess instruction from beginner, intermediate, and advance levels; or for students to just learn the basics / beginner’s program and nothing further?

2. A knowledgeable chess coach / team of chess coaches to provide instruction online from training material that the chess coach has developed; or are they wanting an online chess site that has generic “chess lessons” that a schoolteacher, with or without chess knowledge, can administer?

3. Or ??

Also, Roger, do you see how CFC can play a role in assisting NS Dept of Education with their plans for chess in schools?