Mr. Doktorski’s classes can provide the following benefits to its participants:

• helps develop mental concentration, self-discipline, and patience,

• encourages students to think before acting, to examine and accept the consequences of one’s actions,

• teaches thinking on one’s feet,

• helps develope good sportsmanship and moral character.

Benjamin Franklin noted, “The game of chess is not merely an idle amusement. Several very valuable qualities of the mind, useful in the course of human life, are to be acquired or strengthened by it.”—On the Morals of Chess (1779)

Chess4Kidz classes are educational and entertaining, and consist of classroom lessons and actual games between students. Skills taught range from basic checkmates to rudimentary tactics and strategies such as pins, forks, skewer attacks, opening traps, opening theory, pawn structure, etc. Students examine memorable and instructive games of famous grandmasters. During tournament games students are paired against opponents of similar strength. Mental discipline and good sportsmanship are encouraged. All chess supplies are provided.