Camp

Learn to think ahead. Clean up careless mistakes. Play with more confidence. Final Goal: getting ready for the exponential USCF rating increase.

Camp Dates: June. 24-28th (Monday-Friday)

Schedule: 9a-4pm each day with

Cost: $150 per day

Discount to best price of $495 ($99/day)

1) for the full week and

2) signing up in groups 

Location: Duluth

xiaochengchess@gmail.com

PAST CAMPS: Two day camp: Thur. and Friday (8/3-8/4) for students with little tournament experiences.

Week 8/7-8/11 Camp: For any students who have one more week of summer left interested in joining half- or full day immersive chess camp. Please reach out to Xiao at xiaochengchess@gmail.com

Location: Duluth

Schedule:

  • 9am-noon session
  • noon-1pm lunch
  • 1-4pm session

Goal and Benefit for students: introduce chess fundamentals and help students notice common chess mistakes. After the camp, students will either be ready to play in tournaments or have the toolset to improve US Chess rating.

Content:

  • Board vision
  • Checkmate patterns
  • Opening and Endgame must knows
  • Basic tactics

Price: $95 for each half day sessions. Discount available for two full days and/or referrals.

3 spots remaining.

Questions: please contact Xiao at xiaochengchess@gmail.com

We will have an in-person camp for Metro Atlanta students during the week of 7/24-27 in the Duluth area.

Goal and Benefit for students: after collaborating in New York in June, Xiao and Matan (coaches) realized the massive opportunity to help students in Atlanta.

The camp will specifically help students train and get ready for USCF rating improvement.

  • One student from the NY camp raised his rating over 100 points in the U1800 section at World Open after a full week of chess immersion

While in New York, Xiao and Matan talked for days on the best practices on teaching methods. We also refined the integration of Steps Method learning with Practical experiences to help student gain more confidence and get ready for tournament rating gains.

Target Students: there will be two groups based on student experiences

  1. Advanced tournament players (1000-1600 USCF regular rating): 6 students
  2. New tournament players (300-1000 USCF regular rating): 6 students

Coaches:

  1. NM Matan Prilleltensky: Based in NY, Matan has helped students winning multiple national championships and qualifying many World Youth events.
  2. Xiao Cheng: Coach of Chess 1000, helped students reaching USCF 1000, 1500, and winning state and national scholastic tournaments

Camp Content: Help Students get ready for rating gain

  1. Opening Preparation
  2. Chess Fundamentals (board vision: 64 squares, tactics, calculation)
  3. Psychological on confidence building

Schedule: 9am-1pm on Monday-Thursday (7/24-27). More details on activities each day will be added.

Cost: $400 for 4 days. Payment can be made through Zelle or Venmo (xiaochengchess@gmail.com)

Please use the Contact Page for any questions. Due to the ambitious goal of the camp, we will limit each group to only 6 students.

Note: For players with no tournament experiences, please reach out on your interest and availability for 7/28, and the week of 8/1