MY WEBSITES

This is only one of a number of website I run. Please feel free to visit my other websites.

chessKIDS academy is an internationally renowned website pioneering the interactive teaching of chess to children.

Features include a complete interactive course of lessons taking children from learning the moves through to adult club standard, many quizzes and video games, five computer programs to play against and very much else. There is also a lot of advice for parents and teachers. There is also an online shop for all your chess requirements.

If you are interested please spend a few hours browsing the site yourself before letting your kids loose on it. Start by reading the introductory pages, the FAQs and the Parents' and/or Teachers' pages. Then look at the Kids' section. There are two ways in - the original school-based lessons and the new story-based version which incorporates the quizzes and video games along with the original lessons.

Not much has been happening at chessKIDS over the past couple of years, mainly because I've been at school five days a week and working on other projects in the holidays. But I am now returning to a complete rewrite of the lessons with many improvements. Release of the first phase of chessKIDS Mark 3 is currently scheduled for Summer 2009. Please watch the site for further details.

I am developing a new website which will transfer the methods used to teach chess at chessKIDS academy to other subjects, notably, but not only, Verbal Reasoning, and provide other resources for parents, teachers and students. At present this exists as a microsite associated with the Hampton Court House Reasoning course and you can find it HERE. Please feel free to visit if you're interested, whether or not you're connected with Hampton Court House. At some point this will move to a new site, which might possibly be www.brainskool.com.

My private tuition service operates informally under the name of SPECTRUM TUITION, and there is a microsite available advertising my services in this respect.

A few years ago I started up the Chess Addict website, based on the Chess Addict books and magazine column written in conjunction with Mike Fox, who sadly died in 2005. I didn't get very far, however, and it's not currently being developed further. The original www.chessaddict.com domain has been taken down but I've put it up here for now.

I also own the childrensrepublic.org domain name. This will, if I ever have time, be used for a website publicizing my views on education and childhood issues. There's nothing on there at the moment, though.