Teaching Children
Chess is an exercise of infinite possibilities for the mind, one that helps develop mental abilities to be used throughout life.
For children, learning how to solve a problem is far more important than learning the solution.
With chess, students improve their concentration, critical thinking, abstract reasoning, problem solving, pattern recognition, strategic planning, creativity, synthesis, and evaluation.At Gotham City Chess, we emphasize the empowerment and creativity of chess thinking and analysis and encourage our students to use and develop their intuitive logic before fine tuning it. Chess is ultimately a story, a drama on a stage of 64 squares. All children are capable of creating a story!
Michah Saperstein
Chess Instructor
Michah Saperstein first started teaching 13 years ago. As an undergraduate he spent several years abroad in Asia studying Anthropology, traveling and teaching English. When he returned home to NYC, he continued to teach English as a second language and found teaching to be a rewarding and challenging career. As a chess expert and life long enthusiast, he found many analogies between chess and language as well as learning the fluency of a language and learning the fluency of chess. Michah now runs his own teaching business, Gotham City Chess, where he works with students, schools and camps all over New York City. He is really skilled at making chess fun, interesting, engaging and meaningful.