Chess Club Manager (CCM) makes it easier than ever for teachers to use chess as a powerful educational tool. It’s like having your own assistant coach on duty 24 hours a day.
Chess Club Manager© is quite simply the best management tool ever designed for educators or coaches who want to bring the benefits of chess into schools.
Chess Club Manager gives you an arsenal of online tools to create an environment to help every child learn great thinking skills. Instead of just a small
group of chess kids, you’ll be able to create a community-wide activity that even gets parents involved – and makes THINKING your Varsity Sport.
When you link CCM with the Chess Workouts—our comprehensive educational chess curriculum—you’ll have a system that keeps kids engaged in learning better thinking no matter how good they happen to get at competitive chess.
You can use the CWs as anything from a supplement to your current teaching to a comprehensive curriculum that can take your students to the knowledge level of USCF 1500+ rated players. You can even set the system to automatically generate ‘Weekly Workout’ learning assignments, on any schedule you choose.
Better still, parents can now see every aspect of their kid’s progress online – and even access the Chess Workouts themselves for FREE – so chess becomes an activity for the whole family!
Use Chess Club Manager and the Chess Workouts to provide a wonderfully structured and organized chess learning system for your entire group. No matter what their skill level, players can learn basic, intermediate and even advanced chess skills, using what has been independently assessed as “the highest quality instructional content of any chess software we have seen.”*
For those who care, the CWs content can take players from novice up to the knowledge level of players rated 1500+ . But more importantly by far, we help you create an environment that helps any child develop better thinking skills – for school and for life – from chess. And isn’t that what it should be all about?
Of course it is. And that’s why we named it…
Drive even more learning progress with Varsity Letters to reward your chess athletes!
Learning progress through the Chess Workouts is automatically rewarded online with promotions up our ‘Thinking Belts’ ladder, as players advance from a White belt to a fourth-degree Black belt – in Thinking. Promotions are based not on competitive chess skills, but solely on successful learning.
As students advance through the levels, you can give them an extra physical reward: colored aluminum Thinking Tags keyed to their progress. Proudly hung from schoolbags as a display of achievement, these may quickly become the hottest collectibles at school.
Our Thinking Tag Starter Set contains 120 Thinking Tags, and includes 20 each of the first 5 Thinking Belt colors (taking students through Tactical and Checkmate Thinking) and 5 each of the last 4 colors (covering the last 4, more challenging Workouts), plus 20 chains. You can also get single-color replacement sets of 20, or individual Tag Sets for a single student (all nine colors on a chain).
