King’s Land Chess Academy is Northern California East Bay based professional chess academy focuses on improving youth chess education, founded by Coach Kiki Chen in 2012. KLC has a complete and systematic teaching system from beginner to master level. Professional chess training by World Chess Federation FIDE certified coaches, with the supporting series of chess curriculum created by Coach Kiki and guided by FIDE training guideline.

KLC offers Eight levels of group lessons for youth players from New Beginner level to National Master level.  And small group Master class, Intensive Training Camps, Private Lessons, GAT program (Gifted and Talented training program, former KLC US Team class) and rated tournaments. Students will receive systematic training suitable for their level at each stage, efficiently and gradually improve their chess skills. ​​We dedicated our entire career to helping children to develop their critical thinking through chess and strengthen their mentality for the reality the children will face in their near future. As highly experienced chess coach in youth chess education, we have made it our mission to create awareness in parents of their influence and impact on their child and world they live in. We aim to develop successful chess kids who excel not only in the game, but in life. Chess for World, Wisdom for Life. 

Over the past ten years, KLC has trained thousands of young chess players and won many championships in world, national and state tournaments. Each year, several students are qualified for the U.S. national team. In 2022, there are nine KLC students are invited to be the official US Representatives at the 2022 World Youth Championships and World Cadets Championships. These events are known as the Junior Olympics and are the world's highest level youth tournaments.

In the US August 2022 Top Player list, KLC students ranked 1st and 2nd  in several age groups.  
US Chess Top 100 August 2022
     • In Top Age 7 and Under, Rocky Wang (1845) is ranked No. 2;
     • In Top Age 8, Lerui Zheng (1886) is ranked No.2; Young Cui (1804) is ranked No. 7; Suhas Indukuri (1695) is ranked No.15;
     • In Top Age 10, Patrick Liu (2100) is ranked No. 1, All American Team; Jashith Karthi (1933) is ranked No. 13;
     • In Top Girls Age 10, Jenny Qi (1654) is ranked No.1; Ruyi Hu (1474) is ranked No.6;
     • In Top Girl Age 9, Iris Li (1908) is ranked No. 2, Tianmu Wang (1376) is ranked No.15, Melissa Xu (1334) is ranked No.17;
     • In Top Girl Age 16, Chelsea Zhou (1845) is ranked No. 11.

Learn more about us by joining our club or checking us out at http://www.kingslandchess.com/