Throughout this summer, aside from partnering with the ABC Unified School District’s Migrant Ed program to tutor over 200 migrant children in Science and Engineering, XFYD has also held its own classes for its community. With over 11 tutors and teachers, XFYD led four diverse community classes both online and in-person. One of these landmark classes was our four-session Chess Class.
Chess has an old and hallowed history at XFYD, being one of our oldest classes. This comes from a long tradition of the XFYD Chess Division, which has, over three years, brought over 20 teachers to lead over fifteen chess classes online and in-person at local elementary schools, churches, and libraries. This is on top of our quarterly Chess Tournaments, each of which brings together 30+ competitors for an intense four-hour-long chess experience.
These classes and tournaments are enormously popular among parents. Our library classes carry long waitlists, and we’ve had up to fifty signups for our online classes! However, even this scale of success pales in comparison to what our XFYD branches are up to. Our Milpitas branch in the Bay Area once held a class with over 200 students on the chess waitlist! At XFYD, we know that chess is one of the most effective yet fun ways to develop students’ strategic thinking, logic, and discipline. Our chess teachers lead with experience, many having competed in United States Chess Federation-rated tournaments and national championships.
This latest chess class capped off our long-running chess program with a fun, yet rigorous chess training session. Led by veteran chess teachers Darsh Maheshwari and Emmanuel Wu, this program taught twenty students intermediate and advanced-level chess. Our chess curriculum has been refined over countless iterations and has been purposefully designed to focus on enhancing students’ chess intuition. We really focus on building students’ instincts and pattern-recognition skills to guide their chess thinking.
We capped this class off with a fun chess tournament at the end. Congrats to our winners!
