December 30th-31st
10:00 am until 2:00 pm Pacific Standard Time
Chess Camp Instructions
How to go to assignments and join the tournament
Don’t miss the our special Winter Mini-Camp in honor of Gukesh Dommaraju historic victory at the World Championship. Celebrate with Coach Torres as he shares excerpts from his upcoming book on the 2024 FIDE World Championship Match between Ding Liren and Gukesh Dommaraju. The camp will meet online on December 30th-31st from 10:00 am until 2:00 pm Pacific Standard Time. The camp will feature Gukesh inspired lessons covering opening theory, middle-game tactics, and endgame mastery. This is a free event and all ages and skill levels are welcome.
USCF Correspondence Chess Master Chris Torres
For over 20 years, Chris Torres has brought together the best scholastic chess players from around the country to train, compete and learn together with the best coaches and elite chess players as their guides. Combining the fun of chess with professional training, Chris’s chess camps offer the highest quality chess experiences for youth chess players of all experience levels. His commitment to excellence is easily demonstrated by the thousands of young chess players who choose to learn in his camps each year and the team of esteemed guest coaches he has brought together for the 2020 Winter Break Chess Camps.
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 Northern California. Chris Torres served as the President of the Torres Chess and Music Academy from 2005-2020 and has been awarded the title of correspondence chess master from the United States Chess Federation. Since 1998, Chris Torres has taught 6 individual national champions as well as coached for multiple school teams who have won national championship titles. In addition, Chris Torres has directed and taught at 10 different schools which have been California State Champions at chess. Several former and current students of Chris Torres have been selected to represent the United States at the World Youth Chess Championships.
Acknowledged today as a pioneer in the field of chess and education, Chris Torres regularly speaks at numerous educational forums and events. However, an unplanned illness in early 2019 forced Chris Torres to make some major lifestyle changes. While recovering, Chris made the decision to freely share all of his lesson material on DailyChessMusings.com as well as donate his time to organize free chess events of the highest quality open to any young chess players who wish to learn.