Chess Coach Chris Torres looking at a fundamental checkmating pattern with his class at Very Sunny Academy.
I have fun on Fridays nurturing young minds at Very Sunny Academy in Foster City, California. Each week, I bring my chess equipment and guide a group of passionate young learners on their chess journey. Most classes begin by examining a fundamental endgame. Then it’s onto looking at the tactical ideas in a short classic game before the students play their own serious games. As these chess games finish, I help the children to understand their mistakes and guide them into discovering improvements.
Over the last two years, I have witnessed this group’s growth not just as youth chess players, but as individuals poised to face challenges both on and off the chessboard. I am certain that their journey to become better chess players, will pave the way for dreams to be realized, as they look to the future with newfound confidence. In time, I am confident that many of these talented youngsters will leave their mark on the California scholastic chess scene.
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Chris Torres is a nationally renowned scholastic chess coach working in the San Francisco Bay Area. His classes have attracted players of strengths ranging from rank beginners to world champions. A chess professional since 1998, Chris is widely recognized as one of the main driving forces behind the explosion in popularity and sudden rise in quality of scholastic chess in California. Chris Torres served as the President of the Torres Chess and Music Academy from 2005-2020 and currently is recognized as a correspondence chess master with the United States Chess Federation. Since 1998 Chris Torres has taught 6 individual national champions as well as led multiple school teams to win national championship titles. In addition, Chris Torres has directed and taught at 10 different schools which have been California State Champions at chess. In 2011 and 2012, several former and current students of Chris Torres have been selected to represent the United States at the World Youth Chess Championships. Mr. Torres’ hobbies include playing classical guitar and getting his students to appear on the national top 100 chess rating lists.
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