School Coaching

Bahrain Chess Academy offers a variety of chess-related services for schools. Our primary service is providing weekly chess lessons in schools – before and after school, at lunchtime, and during school hours as part of the curriculum. All of our services can be tailored to suit the needs of your school.

We teach Chess in Schools because we believe it helps academic performance. Chess actually makes kids smarter by teaching the following skills: Focusing, visualizing, thinking ahead, analyzing concretely, and thinking abstractly, planning, juggling multiple considerations simultaneously and last but not least it has great Social Benefits. Classes are conducted on a weekly basis during school hours, lunch times or after school.

How Chess Classes Work

These classes begin with an interactive lesson using a hanging demonstration board or an electronic chessboard (if the school has a smart board). Children are then given the opportunity to play games against each other, putting newly learned strategies into practice, and receive personal feedback from the teacher. As the term progresses and the children become proficient in all of the basics, the lessons will move on to more complex ideas such as opening traps, tactics, planning and calculating many moves ahead. At the end of each lesson, awards are given to children who display good problem solving skills or improvement during the lesson or in their games. As children accumulate more awards they become eligible to win bigger prizes such as trophies or certificates.