How to Teach Chess Books
Surveys, Texts, Examples, and Informations about Chess U8/U10
In the last twenty or so years, the age of education for chess has dropped drastically. There are more and more young chess players who compete in childhood at tournaments of all levels, from regional national and even World Championships. Unfortunately, the current chess literature still provides virtually nothing which could help parents and coaches to prepare and support their children / students for such challenges. To fill this gap, Thomas Luther, Grandmaster and FIDE Senior Coach, and a team of seasoned experts have assembled a collection examples and test assignments to give parents and players a strong understanding of what is to be expected.

Chess Coaching for Kids - The U10-Project
Learn the best placement and purpose of your pieces in each stage of the game in these 10 lessons including Coach Jay’s “five disciplines of chess” - Checkmate, Defense, Endgame, Strategy, and Tactics. Readers also learn the main theory and traps in the Queen’s Gambit, plus much more.

Coach Jay's Chess Academy - #4 Green Belt Lessons
Students will be confident with their notation after recording their answers for many of the over 140 puzzles and 18 mini-lessons covering Coach Jay’s “five disciplines of chess” - Checkmate, Defense, Endgame, Strategy, and Tactics PLUS Essentials to get you warmed up, and a Challenge section to push your brain.

Coach Jay's Chess Academy - #2 Yellow Belt Puzzles
Learn the main lines after 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3, in these 10 lessons that also include Coach Jay’s “five disciplines of chess” - Checkmate, Defense, Endgame, Strategy, and Tactics. Rook & Pawn endgames are the most common in chess, so knowing these is mandatory for the improving player.

Coach Jay's Chess Academy - #5 Purple Belt Lessons
Students’ knowledge of the material in the White and Yellow Belts, plus the Q & K vs K Mate technique are tested in the Essentials section. The 22 mini-lessons and 145 puzzles in the Orange Puzzle Pack reinforce Coach Jay’s “five disciplines of chess” - Checkmate, Defense, Endgame, Strategy, and Tactics.

Coach Jay's Chess Academy - #3 Orange Belt Puzzles
“Advanced Pawn Play” kicks off this book of 10 lessons that include Coach Jay’s “five disciplines of chess” - Checkmate, Defense, Endgame, Strategy, and Tactics. Other lessons include the Lucena Position, and the King’s Indian Defense.

Coach Jay's Chess Academy - #6 Blue Belt Lessons
Four full-page endgame lessons reinforce the students’ understanding of important endgame ideas. There are 7 sections with 140 puzzles that include Coach Jay’s “five disciplines of chess” - Checkmate, Defense, Endgame, Strategy, and Tactics, PLUS Essentials to get you warmed up, and Challenge Puzzles to push your brain.

Coach Jay's Chess Academy - #4 Green Belt Puzzles
An easy-to-understand introduction to the game, 10 lessons including Coach Jay's "five disciplines of chess" - Checkmate, Defense, Endgame, Strategy, and Tactics. Comic-style drawings of the chess pieces help kids understand rules and strategies and make the learning fun.

Coach Jay's Chess Academy - #1 White Belt Lessons
Even Masters can learn a thing or two in these 10 lessons that include Coach Jay’s “five disciplines of chess” - Checkmate, Defense, Endgame, Strategy, and Tactics. This book features both battles (Knights vs. Pawns, Rooks vs. Pawns, Bishops vs. Knights) and the ultimate collaborative effort (B & N Mate). Readers will also get advice on how to build an opening repertoire.

Coach Jay's Chess Academy - #7 Black Belt Lessons
The Purple Puzzle Pack encourages students to avoid the temptation to trade for no reason. It also includes Coach Jay’s “five disciplines of chess” - Checkmate, Defense, Endgame, Strategy, and Tactics, PLUS Essentials to get you warmed up, and Challenge to push your brain. Over 155 puzzles to solve!

Coach Jay's Chess Academy - #5 Purple Belt Puzzles
The first steps towards being a real student of the game, with 10 lessons including Coach Jay’s “five disciplines of chess” - Checkmate, Defense, Endgame, Strategy, and Tactics. Indispensable lessons include learning notation, checkmate with a queen and king, pins & skewers, and Scholar’s Mate (as White & Black).

Coach Jay's Chess Academy - #2 Yellow Belt Lessons
The 188 puzzles in this book are for the serious chess player! The Essentials section tests the student on the five disciplines of chess and the Challenge section tests the student on the advanced concepts of the Blue Belt level.

Coach Jay's Chess Academy - #6 Blue Belt Puzzles
Learning from the Masters – Morphy’s famous game, and Capablanca’s endgames, with 10 lessons including Coach Jay’s “five disciplines of chess” - Checkmate, Defense, Endgame, Strategy, and Tactics. Endgame strategy, pawn structure, and the popular Fried Liver Attack are also inside this book!

Coach Jay's Chess Academy - #3 Orange Belt Lessons
17 Mini-lessons throughout the Puzzle Pack offer refreshers to help students solve the over 150 puzzles of gradually-increasing difficulty. There are 7 sections including Coach Jay’s “five disciplines of chess” - Checkmate, Defense, Endgame, Strategy, and Tactics PLUS Essentials to get you warmed up, and Challenge to push your brain.

Coach Jay's Chess Academy - #1 White Belt Puzzles
Besides the 7 sections found in all the other levels with over 150 puzzles to solve, the Black Puzzle Pack has four bonus sections: Famous Compositions, Triple Loyds, “Are You Smarter than a Chess Master?”, and Blindfold Chess.

Coach Jay's Chess Academy - #7 Black Belt Puzzles
How to Teach Chess to Children
Chess and Children presents the conventional information about the game of chess from the point of view of one who wishes to teach it to children. It assumes little or no preliminary knowledge of the game on the part of the reader, so parents and teachers who do not play chess can make use of the book as readily as those who do. The author, who has specialized in teaching chess to children for several years, describes important teaching methods that are most successful in working with children.

Chess and Children
This celebrated chess tutorial system is the number-one course of its kind - to enable one to confidently teach kids the game, in the same way that European students have learned successfully the 'art of chess' for over 18 years.

Learning Chess - Workbook Step 3
Developed by the Royal Netherlands Chess Federation(KNSB), and taught with soaring success throughout Europe, the Dutch KNSB Scholastic Chess Course is hailed as ''the most innovative chess instructional program in the world''; and it is now available in the United States.

Learning Chess - Manual Step 2
Dutch KNSB Scholastic Chess Course is hailed as ''the most innovative chess instructional program in the world''; and it is now available in the United States.

Learning Chess - Manual Step 5
Dutch KNSB Scholastic Chess Course is hailed as ''the most innovative chess instructional program in the world''; and it is now available in the United States.

Learning Chess - Manual Step 1
Flash cards with 20 unique designs and 40 question and answer sets that cover many of the most common U.S. Chess Federation tournament rules

Colorable Flash Cards - Rules Every Chess Player Needs to Know
Written with parents and coaches in mind, Points of Struggle contains basic lessons and worksheets that bring a player from true beginner to having the confidence and skills to enter their first tournament. This book is ideal for parents who know little about chess, coaches who need supplemental materials or a syllabus for beginners, or for identifying why a student is having difficulty improving.

Points of Struggle - Parent and Coach Edition
A New Guide to Learn & Teach Chess
Hundreds of beginner chess books have been written and published, even in the last 10 years. While they are often well written and well intentioned, they were seldom written solely with the correct audience in mind: Chess Parents, Educators and Chess Students Even more seldom can you find these books written by true chess professionals. Become A Chess Champion, is written by two Full-Time Chess Professionals. Become a Chess Champion was written to stray from age old thought and process for learning the game of chess. It is a new style Chess guide for you featuring the authors thoughts on the best way to learn how to: “Become A Chess Champion!”

Become a Chess Champion
Dutch KNSB Scholastic Chess Course is hailed as ''the most innovative chess instructional program in the world''; and it is now available in the United States.

Learning Chess - Manual Step 4
This celebrated chess tutorial system is the number-one course of its kind - to enable one to confidently teach kids the game, in the same way that European students have learned successfully the 'art of chess' for over 18 years.

Learning Chess - Workbook Step 4
Developed by the Royal Netherlands Chess Federation(KNSB), and taught with soaring success throughout Europe, the Dutch KNSB Scholastic Chess Course is hailed as ''the most innovative chess instructional program in the world''; and it is now available in the United States.

Learning Chess - Manual Step 3
This celebrated chess tutorial system is the number-one course of its kind - to enable one to confidently teach kids the game, in the same way that European students have learned successfully the 'art of chess' for over 18 years.

Learning Chess - Workbook Step 2
This celebrated chess tutorial system is the number-one course of its kind - to enable one to confidently teach kids the game, in the same way that European students have learned successfully the 'art of chess' for over 18 years.

Learning Chess - Workbook Step 5
The Chess Handbook for Parents and Coaches provides a proven method of teaching chess to kids. Whether you know how to play or not, this book guides you through the process of teaching chess to a child. In sixteen clear, and easy to follow lessons, Part One - Teaching Chess, shows what and how to teach all the way from learning the pieces names to checkmate, including the rules your player(s) will need to know. Part Two - The Chess World, explains what goes on in chess, how tournaments work, how to coach players, from new to advanced, how to coach kids who are playing older kids, who the famous chess players are, and much more.

Chess Handbook for Parents and Coaches
Few materials exist to help the classroom teacher who has never played chess or knows only some chess. This manual was designed to address this deficiency. It is written in a manner that allows the teacher to see how to present the material in his or her classroom. This manual will lead a group of beginning students from the rudiments of chess rules to the ability of playing a full game in a competent manner.

Teaching Chess - Step By Step - Teacher's Manual - BOOK 1
This book is designed to be a companion of Book 1, Teaching Chess Step by Step Teacher's Manual. It contains a series of exercises designed to reinforce the knowledge that children gain from the teacher's presentations in the classroom. The exercises were designed for K-12 beginners and require a minimum of explanation. The solution may be written in chess notation or drawn on the board.

Teaching Chess - Step By Step - Exercises - BOOK 2
Strategies and Connections to a Standards-Based World
A beginner chess book for teachers, chess club sponsors, or parents with young children. An elementary school teacher can use this book as a textbook to incorporate chess into their standards-based math program incorporating National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Standards. Also included are exemplars and rubrics and teacher tips about how to handle situations that frequently occur while students are playing chess. Tried and true tested analogies that children will relate to are incorporated so that young children can learn chess in an effective and fun way.

Teaching Chess in the 21st Century
Includes All 10 Books
Developed by the Royal Netherlands Chess Federation(KNSB), and taught with soaring success throughout Europe, the Dutch KNSB Scholastic Chess Course is hailed as ''the most innovative chess instructional program in the world''; and it is now available in the United States.

The Complete KNSB Dutch Scholastic Chess Course
This celebrated chess tutorial system is the number-one course of its kind - to enable one to confidently teach kids the game, in the same way that European students have learned successfully the 'art of chess' for over 18 years.

Learning Chess - Workbook Step 1
Pawn & Queen and In Between is 72 page instruction manual for the game of chess. It starts with volume 1 number 1 and continues through volume 1 number 18. . While the instructional material was designed with children in mind, it is presented in a way that makes it accessible and interesting for new adult players as well! In addition to the teaching of a concept, it also includes exercise materials to help reinforce what the student has learned. We at USCF Sales recommend that anyone using Pawn & Queen and In Between purchase One (1) Teacher's Manual for whomever is teaching the class, and One (1) Student Workbook for each student taking the class. Teacher's Manual A true teaching aid, this manual works in accordance with the student booklet, including helpful hints on how to teach each lesson and supplemental exercises. Great for both those who are familiar with the game and those with limited chess experience.

Pawn and Queen and In Between - Teacher's Manual
Starting at: $6.95
Pawn & Queen and In Between is 72 page instruction manual for the game of chess. It starts with volume 1 number 1 and continues through volume 1 number 18. . While the instructional material was designed with children in mind, it is presented in a way that makes it accessible and interesting for new adult players as well! In addition to the teaching of a concept, it also includes exercise materials to help reinforce what the student has learned.
We recommend that anyone using Pawn & Queen and In Between purchase One (1) Teacher's Manual for whomever is teaching the class, and One (1) Student Workbook for each student taking the class.
Student Workbook
This introductory guide walks students through the basics of the game in a clear, logical and enjoyable way. It features easy to read text and vivid illustrations, making it ideal for students of any age.

Pawn and Queen and In Between - Student Workbook
Starting at: $4.95