Welcome to the LearningChess Free for Schools Program info page for the 2024/25 school year. In the last ten years, more than 130,000 children studied with LearningChess for free in our different educational programs worldwide.
We gladly inform you that LearningChess owners will extend the ongoing charity program for underprivileged schools to the 2024/25 school year.
You and your students can get free online chess lessons with complete Learning Management.
This year’s motto: “It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.” Mother Teresa
Why is teaching chess essential in schools?
Teaching chess in schools is a comprehensive approach to developing your students’ skills. It enhances logical thinking, memory, pattern recognition, focusing, concentration, attention, learning abilities, analyzing, planning, imagining, visualizing, creativity, and self-motivation. Chess also instills patience and politeness , and aids in the socializing process. Read more about that here.
Is it free? Why?
Yes, our program is free for underprivileged schools.
Our mission is to popularize chess as a game and a personal development tool worldwide. Currently, we manage the support of this program from our resources. However, the need is so high that we had to introduce a limit in the 2024/25 school year. To accept applications from more schools, we limited the demandable student licenses to 20 per coach/teacher. We are also looking for generous sponsors to increase this limit.
Which schools are eligible for the program?
Underprivileged schools or schools with disadvantaged students from any country are eligible for our Free for Schools Program. You can also apply if you have a unique but different program.
Our charity committee approves each registration. However, schools that are part of government-based underprivileged programs, such as Title I or reservation schools from the US, and L’éducation prioritaire schools in France, can join without further approval from the committee.
Important: the chess activity we support has to be free of charge for kids.
What can my school get for free in the program?
Your school gets a complete online chess education system for one year with:
- Learning Management System
- Electronic demonstration board function
- Student licenses (max 20 per teacher) with full access, which contain:
- Complete chess curriculum with 144 lessons from beginner to advanced levels
- Tactics Trainer with thousands of puzzles
- 50 Grandmaster lessons
- Online playing possibilities and minigames against the computer
Teachers can add and manage their students and follow their learning progress in real time using our industry-leading Learning Management System. Teachers also get full access to the curriculum to learn chess or prepare for the lessons from the courses.
How can schools join the program?
Teachers from the above schools can join by contacting us with the following info:
- your name
- your school email (please also Sign Up for free with it to LearningChess)
- your title in the school
- school name
- school website
- entitlement for the program (e.g., Title I)
- number of students will take part in the program (max. 20)
- short description of your activity
- declaration that your program is free for kids
Our charity committee analyzes all applications, and we will send you our answer within a week.
Please only apply to our program if your students will be actively using LearningChess.
Is there any other valuable info?
Yes, there is another condition for participating in the program. We value your contributions to the chess education community. To help other teachers and coaches in their educational practice, we ask you to share your activity and ideas via our blog.
Please send us a 5 – 10 paragraph description of your program with some pictures after a month of using LearningChess. We will publish your article in the ‘best practices’ section. Your insights will be a great help to the chess education community.
Are your school or activity eligible for our free program? Take advantage of this unique opportunity. Contact us now.
More and more schools participate in our Free for Schools Program each year. If you read this article and know about schools that can probably join our program, please inform them about it.
LearningChess Team
