Chess Class
Our Instructor
Grand Master Mackenzie Molner
US Open Co-Champion and 4 times New Jersey State Champion.
  • A beloved coach at Koo Chinese Academy since 2018. 
  • He has coached many state and national championship teams and players, even coaching the United States World Youth Team and a student to a World Championship. He has transitioned fully to coaching from playing and looks forward to helping bring up the New Jersey chess community where he grew up. 
Beginner Class
Pre-requisite: None
Intermediate Class
Pre-requisite: students who have graduated from our Chess beginner's class or USCF rating 200 - 400 or equivalent

Class Overview: 
Students are expected to already know how the pieces move and know several basic checkmates. In the camp students will continue to learn new techniques and progress to more difficult checkmates and tactical patterns. We will learn an opening repertoire to use for the White and Black pieces to start out the game. We will also continue to learn about chess notation and tournament chess rules.