Special Guest Mid-South Chess Camp Instructors & Coaches (Previous Years)
Joel Benjamin, Grandmaster
Hikaru Nakamura, Grandmaster
Susan Polgar, Grandmaster
Mid-South Chess Camp Instructors & Coaches
Our Summer Camp coaches are among the best International Grandmasters, International Masters, coaches, and players in the country and for that matter, the world. Our instruction spans 19 years in Memphis and includes coaching elementary, middle and high school students, camps, tournaments, seminars, and simultaneous chess exhibitions.
Alexander Stripunsky, Grandmaster and Co-Founder
Jake Kleiman, International Master and Co-Founder
Lázaro Bruzón, Grandmaster
Josh Friedel, Grandmaster
Robert Hess, Grandmaster
Ildar Ibragimov, Grandmaster
Zviad Izoria, Grandmaster
Giorgi Kacheishvili, Grandmaster
Igor Novikov, Grandmaster
Alexander Onischuk, Grandmaster
Alex Yermolinsky, Grandmaster
Leonid Yudasin, Grandmaster
Dorsa Derakshani, Women’s Grandmaster
Martica Fierro, Women’s Grandmaster
Jennifer Shahade, Women’s Grandmaster
Anna Sharevich, Women’s Grandmaster
Claudia Munoz, Women’s Candidate Master
Teddy Coleman, International Master
Irina Krush, International Master
Raja Panjwani, International Master
Alex Velikanov, International Master
Eli Vovsha, International Master
Parker Zhao, International Master Elect
Michelle Catherina, Women’s International Master
Alisa Melekhina, Women’s International Master
Iryna Zenyuk, Women’s International Master
Marcel Martinez, FIDE Master
Sarah Chiang, Women’s FIDE Master
Nolan Hendrickson, National Master
André Duvall
Adam Johnson
Nicholas Katz
Jennie Liu, Expert
Eve Litvak
Michael Robertson
Igor Zhislin
After-School Program Instructors & Coaches
Mid-South Chess Coaches are college students and recent graduates who must exhibit chess ability, skill, enthusiasm, play actively, possess communicative-child friendly skills, and fine moral character. Each coach is hand selected to be on our staff and meet these standards. They are constantly monitored by our director with an eye that maintains the reputation of excellence earned over years teaching scholastic chess.