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

Nonna Karakashyan with Diana Serinova (left) and Danielle Perveeva (right) Diana got 5th place trophy in 2011 NJ Grade School Championship in Kindergarten section.

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 online.

"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.

For Fall 2011 / Spring 2012 Sunday classes of Nonna Karakashyan are scheduled in Cook Campus Center of Rutgers University (New Brunswick, 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 computers. and various miscellaneous chess items.

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

 Samritha Palakollu

Roman Rychkov

2nd place in 2011 New Jersey Grade School Championship among 6-graders
Winner (5 out of 5!) of
2010 NJ State Elementary Championship   
2nd result (6 out of 7!) in 2010 National K-12 Championship (Orlando, FL) among 5-graders