Live classes, never recordings
A coach is on the call, watching the board your child is playing on and correcting the move as it happens. Nobody is handed a video and left to it.
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Online Chess Classes for Kids
Live, small-group chess classes for children, on one published syllabus from the first move to tournament play.
Most chess classes for kids are a weekly hour with no published plan behind it. Ours is a course: 240 taught sessions in a fixed order, two live classes a week, homework a coach actually marks, and a tournament every week. Online for children anywhere in India, and offline at our 4 Kolkata centres.
240 taught sessions
15 levels, five stages
2 classes per week
About two months a level
Live small-group classes
Online, or at a Kolkata centre
Free trial class
A real assessment with a coach
The Class
What our chess classes for kids actually look like.
A class is an hour, live, with a coach and a small group of children at roughly the same strength. The coach teaches one idea from the syllabus, the children work through it on the board together, and then they play it out. Nothing is a recording, and nothing is improvised on the day.
Your child is not dropped into a generic beginner slot either. The free trial class is a real assessment: the coach plays with them, reads where they actually are, and names the session to start from. A child who already knows how the pieces move skips ahead to tactics rather than sitting through four weeks of material they have outgrown.
Between classes the work continues in the student portal - puzzles, a tactics trainer, assignments the coach marks, and a weekly academy tournament with real pairings. You see every bit of it from your own parent login.
Small groups, corrected by name
Batches are kept small enough that every child is spoken to in every class, and quiet children do not get to hide at the back of a room.
Homework a child will actually do
Puzzles, a tactics trainer, a square trainer and practice games against a friendly engine, all in the portal, all scored and all reviewed by the coach.
Parents can see all of it
Attendance, homework scores, coach feedback, tournament results and fee history sit behind your own login, so you never have to ask how it is going.
The Ladder
Chess classes for kids, stage by stage.
Find the description that sounds like your child. Each one opens the course page with the full syllabus, listed session by session, so you can read exactly what will be taught before you book anything.
A child who has never played
Starts at the board itself - how each piece moves, how to write a move down, what a legal game looks like - and finishes with your child delivering checkmate on purpose rather than by accident.
Beginner Chess Course · 48 sessions
See the beginner syllabusA child who knows the rules but keeps losing pieces
The stage where chess stops being random. Forks, pins, skewers, back-rank mates and discovered attacks, drilled until your child sees them on the board instead of hearing about them afterwards.
Intermediate Chess Course · 48 sessions
See the intermediate syllabusA child playing their first tournaments
Technique for the games that are decided after the tactics: king and pawn endings, the named mating patterns, and a first opening repertoire so they are not improvising against prepared opponents.
Semi-Pro Chess Course · 48 sessions
See the semi-pro syllabusA rated player who wants to calculate deeper
Sacrifices, combinations and every tactical motif in its hardest form, for a child already competing in rated events and losing points to the one move they did not see.
Pro Chess Course · 48 sessions
See the pro syllabusA serious competitor working on judgement
Pawn structure, weak squares, attacking schemes and theoretical endgames - the understanding that decides games between two children who both already see the tactics.
Masters Chess Course · 48 sessions
See the masters syllabusWhy Chess
What chess classes give a child, beyond the game.
We will not promise you a jump in school marks. What a weekly chess class reliably builds is narrower than that, and more useful.
Sitting with one problem
A tournament game can run an hour. Children work up to that from short games, and the ability to stay with one hard thing is the first thing parents tell us they notice.
Thinking before touching
Touch-move is a real rule, and it teaches a child to check the consequence of a move before committing to it, every single game.
Losing well
Everybody loses at chess, including the coach. Children learn to shake hands, go through what happened, and come back next week - which is a lot of what a weekly tournament is for.
A reason to keep practising
Levels to finish, puzzle streaks, XP, academy leaderboards and a tournament every week give practice a point, so it does not depend on being nagged.
Online or offline
Online chess classes, or chess classes in Kolkata?
Both run the same syllabus with the same coaches, so this is a question about your week, not about what your child will be taught.
Online chess classes for kids
For children anywhere in India and in 15+ other countries. No travel, batches in the evening and at weekends, and the board, homework, tournaments and reports all live in the same portal. This is how most of our students learn, including several now playing for their country.
See the online chess coaching coursesChess classes at our Kolkata centres
For families in and around Kolkata who would rather their child sat across a real board from another child. 4 centres - Bowbazar, Haridevpur, Jodhpur Park, New Alipore - with batch timings, a named coach and a phone number for each.
- Chess classes in Bowbazar
- Chess classes in Haridevpur
- Chess classes in Jodhpur Park
- Chess classes in New Alipore
Student Results
Children who started exactly where your child is now.
Every result below belongs to a student who began on this syllabus, most of them as complete beginners.
Shreyan Bag
1st in Under 14 Open
3rd All Bengal Chess Development School Age Group Tournament 2025 · 2025 · State level
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Shreyan Bag
1st in Below 1799 Elo category; gained 23.6 rating points
7th Ayodhana International FIDE Rating Chess · International level
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Adyashis Biswas
U-13 Open Champion
4th All Bengal School Developmental Age Group Chess Championship 2025 · 2025 · State level
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Nilavo Pal
1500 FIDE classical rating
FIDE rating
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Questions parents ask about chess classes for kids.
Age, online versus in person, how often classes run, and how you will know it is working.
What age can my child start chess classes?
There is no fixed cut-off. What matters is whether a child can sit through a class and follow instructions, which the free trial class tells us far better than a birthday does - a coach plays with your child and says honestly whether they are ready. Several of our students were already winning Under-7 and Under-8 events, so starting young is normal here.
Are online chess classes for kids as good as in-person ones?
For chess, yes, because the board is on the screen for everybody at once. The coach sees exactly what your child sees, can take over the board to show a line, and nobody is sitting too far back to follow. The syllabus, homework, tournaments and progress reports are identical to our offline batches in Kolkata.
Does my child need to know anything before the first class?
No. The beginner stage starts from the board itself - the squares, how each piece moves, how to record a game - so a child who has never played a full game is exactly who it is written for.
How many chess classes a week does a child need?
Two live classes a week. Each level is sixteen sessions and takes about two months, and the full ladder is 15 levels and 240 taught sessions from the first move through to Masters.
Are your chess classes for kids online or in person?
Both. Live online classes run for children anywhere in India and in 15+ other countries, and the same courses run offline at our 4 Kolkata centres. Children move between the two without repeating anything, because both follow one syllabus.
Will my child get to play in tournaments?
Yes. Academy tournaments run every week inside the portal with real pairings, live games, results and leaderboards. Children who want to compete further are prepared for and entered into rated district, state and national events.
How will I know whether my child is actually improving?
You get a parent login to the same portal the class runs in: attendance, homework status and scores, the coach's written feedback, tournament results, progress reports and certificates. Improvement is something you read, not something you are told.
How do I book a chess class for my child?
Book the free trial class. It is a real class with a coach that ends in a level recommendation and the exact session your child should start from - and it carries no obligation to enrol.
Start with a free class
Book your child's first chess class, free.
A real class with a coach, not a sales call. It ends with an honest read on where your child is and which session they should start from. Online, or at any of our Kolkata centres.