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LOCKELAND DESIGN CENTER HYBRID CHESS CLUB  
Spring Semester 2021

Coach Gainer Phay will lead a 1-hour synchronized ZOOM club each Tuesday from 4:00 PM until 5:00 PM. Limit 16 students in each group. The ZOOM will begin at 3:55 PM to give everyone 5-minutes to log on. 

Start Date: Tuesday, January 12th and ending Tuesday, April 27th

(no chess during Spring Break) 15 sessions total. 

If we are allowed to return to campus, then this registration with also cover after-school chess each Tuesday from 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM. 

Procedures:

• Each Nashville Chess Center (NCC) Program will provide 1-hour of synchronized chess club with qualified and trained NCC Instructors each week
• Each synchronized class will begin with roll call, a 10-15-minute classroom style lesson on Zoom, utilizing an analysis board on chess.com or chesskid.com
• Each synchronized class will consist of 45-50 minutes of practice or play time amongst the club members as the coach observed each online – The coach may also play against students and provide more individualized attention during this period
  
• Each student registered for the NCC program shall receive a ChessKid.com Gold Membership ($49 per year) as part of the registration fees at to extra cost
• ChessKid.com has very well-established protective measures to keep chess kids online safe
  
• If at any point, the NCC is welcome by a school to resume on campus learning, we can still utilize the virtual community as a tool, but the main program of synchronized learning would revert or convert to in person
• ChessKid also has a complete curriculum of asynchronous learning that each scholar can utilize and that the coach of each respective program will use to give online assignments
• Programs are child appropriate and highly interactive

Benefits:

• Chess is a powerful educational tool that has shown to accelerate the cognitive development of scholars in math, science and reading
• Chess is a power “distractor” – even in a virtual setting, chess will do a lot to help Middle-Tennessee students’ minds not constantly worry about this difficult situation they are learning to adapt to
• Chess will create a sense of community and identity for our students missing their friends and their other sports teams
• In a time where parents are having to be told about “what can we no longer offer students;” Chess is an additive – something we can fully provide