Yazar: Phil Rosado

He taught Chess as a class in Middle School at the New York City Board of Education for fifteen years. He coordinated chess clubs and chess teams at two different schools during 2005 – 2011 and 2013 – 2022 that competed locally and nationally. The Frederick Douglass Academy chess team won the 2009 United States Chess Federation U1600 Team Championship. He took a year off to care for his dad, who was suffering from alzheimer. In 2013 he returned to the New York City Board of Education working at John Ericsson MS126 to teach chess as a class and build a chess program. One of his students, Javier Bernal, graduated from MS 126 in 2014. He continued in the College Bound program at Chess in the Schools that also competed locally and nationally. Javier won the 2014 U1600 United States Chess Federation Individual Championship. Javier is currently attending New York University on a full scholarship. He (Phil Rosado) is retired and currently teaching afterschool chess four days a week in Hoboken, NJ and for the United Federation of Teachers Si Beagle program for retirees once a week.