ChessKid: a fun, safe and accessible way for kids to play chess
Tue, Nov 15
|online event
How to empower children to learn and play chess? How to engage girls in the game? Our speakers, ChessKid leaders A. Sorokina and N. Krauchuk, will share their insights.
Time & Location
Nov 15, 2022, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
online event
Guests
About the Event
As a the world’s #1 Chess site for kids, ChessKid empowers children to learn the timeless game of Chess in a fun, engaging way. Its learning tools will keep kids motivated to learn and improve their Chess skills. More importantly, learning Chess will give them skills that they can take with them throughout life: strategy, tactics, creativity, perseverance and calculated risk-taking.
ChessKid leaders, Anastasia Sorokina and Nadzeya Krauchuk, will discuss the value of the game of Chess, the idea of ChessKid, as well as how to engage girls in chess.
Speakers Bios:
Ms. Anastasia Sorokina is Woman International Master (2001), International Arbiter (2002), FIDE Trainer (2005), International Organizer (2018). Originally from Belarus, in 2003 Anastasia moved to Australia and worked as a chess coach in the Queensland School of Chess, and then in Chess Kids in Melbourne. After her daughter was born in 2009, she moved back to Belarus where…