Session 1
Join the chess program at Pacific: learn the moves, improve your play and connect with other chess enthusiasts while playing the royal game. This exciting program, taught by experienced chess coaches and titled players, has the advantage of being both an in-person and online activity. Be part of one of the hottest new trends in the eSporting world!
Through demonstrations and lots of practice games, our titled chess coaches will cover the most fundamental topics in chess:
Demonstrations around various topics: openings, middlegames, endgames, tactics, strategies.
Other planned topics and activities include:
BS in Business, University of Texas - Austin, 1991
Jay Stallings is a nationally-rated chess expert with 15 published chess books. He has taught over 40,000 students since 1994 and is an international lecturer on Excellence in Chess Instruction.
Institute of Physical Education, Yerevan, 1991
Grandmaster, 2006, USA
Grandmaster Melikset Khachiyan is an Armenian-American Grandmaster of chess who now resides in Los Angeles. He competed at the Chess Olympiad of 1996; at the World Team Chess Championship of 1997, where the Armenia national chess team won bronze, their first World Team Championship medal; and at the European Chess Club Cup of 1997. He was the first coach of GM Levon Aronian. Currently, he is the coach of GM Samuel Sevian and of the American women's national chess team. He is an instrumental member of the FIDE Trainers' Commission.
