W e l c o m e   t o   C h e s s - C l a s s . c o m !

International Arbiter and experienced chess instructor Nonna Karakashyan invites you and your children into the wonderful world of Chess!

You can play vs. chess programs of different strength:
- PixelPusher  for beginners and
- Little Chess Partner  for advanced players.

You will find here the best combinations of World Champions as well as many other interesting combinations and compositions  (with answers).  Another page will show you the games of the best chessplayers from  super-tournaments. 

Special section is dedicated to the FIDE Laws of Chess.

Humor pages contain many caricatures and cartoons.

Links pages allow you to find many interesting and useful chess pages in the Net.

"Successes in Tournaments" pages describe achievements of our students in International, National, State and local competitions. Complete list of tournaments where our students successfully participated is published in our Chess Calendar page.

This page also contains links to USCF pages with the listings of coming tournaments in New Jersey, New York and other states as well as directions to different chess clubs where our students participate in rated and unrated competitions.

Congratulations to Samritha Palakollu with 2nd place and Silver medal at 2009 World Youth Championship (Turkey )  among girls under 8 -  

Roman Rychkov
Winner of 2010 NJ State Elementary Championship (K-6)  with 5 out of 5 !

For Fall 2009 / Spring 2010 Sunday classes of Nonna Karakashyan are scheduled in Main Hall of Middlesex County College in Edison, NJ.

Chess classes are also part of the Summer camp program of School Plus.

You can find here study programs for beginners and advanced players as well as our recommendations on chess books, software, chess sets and boards, chess omputers. and various miscellaneous chess items.

Additional page provides detailed information on chess scholarships in many colleges and universities.