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Chess NYC After School Programs

The leader in NYC Chess excellence and education.

From absolute beginners to championship programs and everything in between, Chess NYC boasts the very best tailored programs for everyone! The Chess NYC philosophy is to emphasize the sport and fun of Chess. Providing engaging, accelerated instruction followed by supervised, spirited play, each student associates Chess with fun, and therefore larger numbers of them ultimately excel or at least become proficient in the great, significant, game of Chess. From there? Excellence!

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Once things return to normal, after school chess programs are available at the following schools:

Chess NYC Organized

Enrollment for the following is open to all students, regardless of the school they regularly attend.
All programs start when school is dismissed and run until 5:15pm, with a 6pm late pickup option. 

Manhattan

  • PS 124 @ PS 126 (Friday)
  • PS 126 (Friday)
  • PS 183 (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday)
  • PS 184 (Friday)
  • PS 527 (Monday, Wednesday)
  • The Child School (Tuesday)
  • Wetherby-Pembridge (Wednesday)
  • YCS/PS 151 (Tuesday)
  • Village Chess (Our home-base @ Zinc Club in Greenwich Village) (Monday – Friday)

Brooklyn

  • Williamsburg Tutoring (FasTracKids) (Monday – Friday)
  • PS 110 The Monitor School (Tuesday)
  • PS 132 (Fridays)
  • St. Stans (Tuesdays)

Queens

  • PS 115Q (Thursday)
  • PS 49Q (Thursday)

School Organized

Enrollment for the following schools is exclusive to their students only. (Click to visit their school website for contact info.)
  • Change For Kids (Midtown)
  • CPCS (Brooklyn)
  • Creative Steps Early Care (LES)
  • DOROT (UWS)
  • Ember Charter School (Bushwick)
  • Greenwich House (Greenwich Village)
  • ICAHN 1 (Bronx)
  • ICAHN 3 (Bronx)
  • ICAHN 4 (Bronx)
  • ICAHN 5 (Bronx)
  • ICAHN 6 (Bronx)
  • ICAHN 7 (Bronx)
  • IS 318 (Williamsburg)
  • Kew Forest (Kew Gardens)
  • Leman Prep (Battery Park)
  • Manhattan Country (UWS)
  • Manhattan HS for Girls (UES)
  • MS 226Q (Wakefield)
  • MS 50 (Williamsburg)
  • MS 582 (East Williamsbug)
  • PS 133 (Park Slope)
  • PS 144Q (Forest Hills)
  • PS 200 Benson School (Bath Beach)
  • PS 217 (Roosevelt Island)
  • PS 329 (Coney Island)
  • PS 397 Spruce Street (TriBeCa)
  • PS 6X (Bronx)
  • Sacred Heart (UES)
  • St. Stephan of Hungary (UES)
  • Transfiguration (TriBeCa)
  • Wagner Middle School (UES)
  • WHEDCo (Bronx)

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