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Life Master
Larry Englebretson
USCF Rated 2204
Coach Larry is head of the Houston
Chess Club, has been the Houston City Champion a number of times, and
has taught both children and adults for many years. He has been
teaching chess at T. H. Rogers for 6 years now, and also coaches at
the Village School. Coach Larry also works with us each
summer.
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Life Master
Evan Michaelides
USCF Rated 2228
Coach Evan (5th grader
Sofia and 9th grader
Matthew Michaelides' father) has been a welcome addition to our coaching
staff.
While his job keeps him busy during the school week, he comes to our
Saturday tournaments to provide game analysis. |
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National Master
Jeff Ashton USCF
Rated 2266
Coach Jeff has been
teaching at T. H. Rogers for 3.5 years now. He also works with
the Village School, Bellaire High School, Pershing Middle School, and
has a large number of private students. He was twice the
Michigan Junior Champion. Besides ours and the Klein Chess Camp,
he has also taught at the Castle Chess Camp in Indiana, and Whitewater
in Wisconsin. He has a black belt in Tae Kwon Do.
Jeff graduated with honors from the University of Texas at Dallas,
where he had a full chess scholarship. |
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National Expert
John Hendrick USCF
Rated 2131
Coach John has been with us
2 years now. He was 1996 Texas Junior Co-Champion and 2004-2005
Winner of the San Antonio City Championship. He teaches in a number of
programs and has private students from all over the city. He earned
his B.S. in Psychology and B.A. Anthropology from Texas State
University.
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National Expert
Justin Gardner
USCF Rated 2115 .www.bgschess.com
Coach Justin has been
working for us a year and a half now, but has many years of teaching
experience, both school based and with private students. He also
coaches at the Village School. He holds over a dozen Mississippi
State Chess titles, 2000 U S Game-30 Champion, 1999 Southern K-9
Champion. He earned his degree in Economics from UT-Dallas, and
was on the Chess Team. He was a key player on the 2005 US Amateur Team
East Co-Champion Team, UTD-Orange. |
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Women's International
Master Alexey Root
USCF Rated 2006
Alexey taught at the first Klein Chess Camp in 1995, and again in
2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007. She is a Women's International
Chess Master and was the 1989 U.S. Women's Chess Champion, 1998 Pan
American Open Chess Champion, and had a peak USCF rating of 2262. She
is former Associate Director of the Chess Program at the University of
Texas at Dallas and Senior Lecturer in Teacher Education in the School
of General Studies, with a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from
UCLA (1999). Author of
Children and Chess:
A Guide for Educators.
In addition to practical chess lesson plans for grades K-8, the book
gives academic and humanistic theories about why chess should have a
place in school curricula, citing reading and math standards from each
of the 50 states.
Alexey's latest book is
Science, Math, Checkmate: 32 Chess Activities for
Inquiry and Problem Solving. |
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