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Chess For Beginners

at El Camino College - Torrance

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Location:
Torrance, South Los Angeles
16007 Crenshaw Blvd
Btwn Manhattan & W Redondo Beach Blvds
Torrance, California 90506
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Class Level: All levels
Age Requirements: 8 and older
Average Class Size: 20
Teacher: Damen Fletcher

What you'll learn in this kids chess class:

This course is intended to introduce you to the game of Chess through a comprehensive exploration of the games’ basics, as well as, beginner and advanced beginner strategies and tactics. The game of Chess will be used as a platform, springboard, and framework to develop and increase your qualitative and quantitative reasoning skills, critical thinking/analysis, verbal reasoning and analytical writing.  

You’ll not only study and investigate the game, but you will also learn the phases and stages of the game’s development and history, as well as its impact on contemporary society and modern history. The Chessboard and the pieces will serve as a lens to comparatively study community and behavior. Study of the Chess Board and Algebraic Chess notation are integrated into the course in a way that reinforce Algebra 1 and Coordinate Geometry standards and concepts. 

For kids and adults ages 8 and up! Parents and their kids are welcome to enroll in the class together. 

Kids attending the class alone are required to complete the Kid's College release form.

IMPORTANT: For campus/in-person classes, vaccination proof and masking in classrooms is required for adult and kid students and staff.


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  • If you request to withdraw from a class and the request is received by us 4 business days prior to class start date, a credit voucher valid for three(3) years will be granted, less a $20 processing fee.
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  • Refund requests for excursions and special events must be received no later than 11 full business days before the scheduled excursion or event.
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If the College cancels a class for any reason, those pre-registered will be notified by phone and email and payment will be refunded. The school also reserve the right to substitute instructors or reschedule class times if necessary.

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