Chess is on the rise in LaMorinda.
Lamorinda (the collective name for the East Bay towns of Lafayette, Moraga, and Orinda) is home to a growing number of young chess players, both girls and boys.
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Welcome
Berkeley Chess School Mission
The Berkeley Chess School is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to sharing the joy of chess with as many young people as possible through instruction in the schools and tournament play.
Established in 1982 by Elizabeth Shaughnessy, former Irish Women's Chess Champion and former president of the Berkeley School Board, The Berkeley Chess School offers chess instruction to over 5,000 girls and boys in Kindergarten through 12th grade in over 150 schools throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Read more about BCS or watch our video.
The Young Queens and Kings of Chess
Chess is on the rise in LaMorinda.
Lamorinda (the collective name for the East Bay towns of Lafayette, Moraga, and Orinda) is home to a growing number of young chess players, both girls and boys.
Read the article!
BCS Wins Grants To Help East Bay Kids
Thanks to support from the Trio Foundation, the Y. & H. Soda Foundation and the Morris Stulsaft Foundation, The Berkeley Chess School has been able to offer a fourth year of the BCS First Moves Program, our chess outreach program for young East Bay children. To learn more about this exciting program, please click here.
Grandmaster Baburin Visits BCS
In the summer of 2007, Grandmaster Alexander Baburin came to Berkeley to teach a Master Class at BCS Summer Camp. Read the interview with this Russian Grandmaster, who has started a chess school in Ireland.
BCS Celebrates its Silver Anniversary
BCS Named Best After-School Program
The Berkeley Chess School is proud to be a recipient of Diablo Magazine's 2006 "Best of the East Bay" award for After-School Program.
