About Us

About Learners

What we teach

Curricula are specialized to kids' skill levels. Specific topics we cover include: 

• • The moves and rules

  • Openings

  • Middle Games

  • End Games

  • Tactics

  • Chess Puzzles

  • Chess Mazes

  • Analytical skills

  • Learning Skills

  • Teaching Skills

  • Vocabulary

  • Leadership

  • Sportsmanship

  • Chess Etiquette 

  • Instructing skills

  • Facilitation skills

And of course we play lots of chess games and fun variations of chess games like:

• • Battleship Chess

  • Fischer Random Chess

• Bughouse

  • And even some sophisticated chess variants invented by our students

  • Also, we have invented our very own chess variant called "Super Bughouse!"

About our Chess Coaches:

Founded in the Spring of 2010, and recently reincorporated as a 501c3 not-for-profit organization, Learners Chess Academy is an Albuquerque-area educational program with the mission to enhance child development by using the game of chess to promote and stimulate intellectual maturity, social skills, and leadership development.  Our ultimate goal is to make chess available to any and all children in the State of New Mexico.

We do not just teach kids chess, we teach them to learn by compassionately leading them through the process of paying attention and drawing on their experiences.  Furthermore, to promote leadership and a setting of communal learning, we teach leadership development skills to encourage players to communicate and to teach each other what they know and how they learn.  

Currently we teach before and after school chess clubs during the school year and chess camps during winter, spring, and summer breaks.

Our coaches are educators, activists, farmers, chess education enthusiasts, parents, students, and leaders.

We recruit instructors who are passionate about the ways that chess improves kids' classroom performance and social development. 

All of our coaches are required to pass a background check to allow them to work with children.

Click here to learn more about each of our chess coaches.  

Learners Recognized by NM State Senate!

Click here to see the 2015 Memorial unanimously passed by the NM Senate where we are recognized for our work establishing school chess clubs and teaching kids how to play chess!