School Mates Chess Team is The Knight School chess program brought on a large scale to an entire school or grade. Usually funded by the school or by corporate or federal grants or private gifts, School Mates takes a class of forty or fifty and for one-hour per week turns the entire school or one specific grade into a super-fun chess experience. School Mates is your school's official chess team and chess party. School Mates is a super-fun, high-energy chess class in which kids ages 5-12 celebrate a new chess tactic each week with silly videos, music-driven puzzlers for prizes, colorful silicone Tactixbands, funny movies, and chess clock tourneys in which the winner gets the loser's Mardi-Gras beads! Laughter, fast-clocks, and compelling teaching approaches make this class the week's highlight for the hundreds of kids who make up the awesome network of The Knight School's 75 school chess teams. School Mates meets once per week throughout the academic school year, at a time that fits well with the school schedule. Our curriculum is awesomely effective and the kids get devastatingly good at chess; we have won State Championships many times. Contact your City Coach to sign up today.