Manufacturer of the World's Finest Chess Equipment

- Bruce Pandolfini, renowned chess coach and author portrayed by Ben Kingsley
in Searching for Bobby Fischer (Paramount Pictures, 1993)

The Chess Club Manager Teaching Package is part of the Think Like A King system -- comprehensive software that lets schools or families use chess to help kids build the critical thinking skills they'll need for learning ... and for life. At school, it's an entire system that addresses all the needs of a chess program, from Teaching to Motivation to Management. So any school can have an expert chess program even without an expert chess teacher. If you already have a great teacher, Think Like A King becomes the perfect assistant coach.

Besides Chess Club Manager, to manage and motivate your club, you'll have a rigorous and fun interactive learning system, the Chess Workouts, that has proven itself nationwide.

Whether you offer chess during or after school, with or without a formal chess club, Think Like A King helps you build a culture of learning - where Thinking becomes your school sport.

Chess Club Manager 2.5 - Teaching Package

The Chess Club Manager 2.5 Teaching Package, gives you all of the powerful features of Chess Club Manager, plus a full set of our engaging, interactive Chess Workouts tutorials. You'll have a complete set of Management, Motivation and Teaching tools for one computer, empowering anyone to run a great chess program.

Included in your Chess Club Manager Teaching Package:

Chess Club Manager lets you create all the information a chess club needs, and use it to transform an activity into a varsity sport. This remarkably easy-to-use software enables you to fully motivate students with features like club ratings and standings, bonus points and statistics.

Export player data, choose a rating system, create instant tournament registrations by print or e-mail. Export data to SwissSys or WinTD to run your own tournaments.

Print award certificates for everything from playing skills to puzzle solving to effort to sportsmanship - or any other category you create.

It even lets you automatically reward learning via progress through our Thinking Belt system. So whether through performance or participation, everyone in your chess program becomes a winner. And all your kids are inspired to do their best.

Chess Club Manager (CCM) makes it easier than ever for teachers to use chess as a powerful educational tool. It's like having your own assistant coach on duty 24 hours a day.

The Chess Workouts are the teaching arm of the Think Like A King system. Written by experts at teaching chess to children - including David MacEnulty, whose life inspired the A&E movie, the Knights of the South Bronx, starring Ted Danson, the Workouts take the work out of learning chess as lessons and puzzles actually come to life on the interactive chessboard. These interactive tutorials are for everyone from reading-aged children (grade 3 & up) to adults - so the entire family can join in the learning.

Individually, each Workout addresses thinking in a different part of the game and has the content of a complete chess book: Tactical, Checkmate, Endgame, Opening, Advanced Tactical and Advanced Checkmate Thinking. And for complete novices, there's First Lessons in Chess - the perfect way to get started. The Chess Workouts take students from novice chess player to a USCF rating of 1600-1900.

Unlike printed chess books which are often too tedious for kids to follow, the fully interactive Chess Workouts are totally engrossing. Users move the pieces on screen to solve problems, while engaging text explanations make the game come alive and provide students with instant feedback on their thinking.

Students are rewarded with 'Workout Points' for their effort and knowledge as they move through each tutorial, learning their way up our Thinking Belt ladder until they've achieved a Black Belt - in Thinking! The Think Like A King system even allows work at home [in the form of a 'Score Report'] to be e-mailed back to the coach if your school has a chess club.

The Workouts are like having a private chess coach available anytime, anywhere ready to explain even the most complex ideas in a simple and engaging format. In fact, these may be the first chess 'books' that most kids read 'cover to cover'.

The Chess Workouts:
They take the work out of learning chess.

System Requirements:

• Think Like A King Version 2.5 CDs contain software for Windows 95 through Windows 10.
• Requires 50 MB disk space.
• Network version for Windows only.
• Chess Club Manager and Chess Workouts School Edition usable on standalone PC or Windows server

Audience: First Lessons and Chess Workouts Vols. 1 & 2: Grade 3 & up readers (or younger, working with parents). Chess Workouts Vols. 3 - 6: Grade 4 & up readers.