Partnerships
The mental game of chess doesn’t stop at any border.
Chess psychology travels well because the underlying patterns, including performance anxiety, post-loss recovery, and burnout, show up in every federation, club, and classroom that takes competition seriously.
Partners
Tunde Onakoya
Founder & Convener, Chess in Slums Africa
Bringing structured chess programming and mentorship to impoverished communities in Lagos, including the floating settlement of Makoko. Tunde and I have worked together on projects across Majidun, Oshodi, and beyond. Our years-long collaborations together ground us both in the realities of how trauma and community intertwine.
Haozhan Gao
PhD Student, Quantitative Marketing, Stanford GSB
Studying reinforcement learning, human-AI collaboration, and recommender systems, different technical lenses on the same question this practice asks at the board: how people actually think and decide. I consult with Haozhan on translating psychological patterns into frameworks that can be measured and taught.
Varun Arora
CEO & Founder, OpenCurriculum
Building open, adaptable curriculum resources that help educators design better learning experiences without starting from scratch. Working alongside Varun shapes how I bring intentionality and structure to curriculum management and teaching, a way of thinking I carry into every program I build.
Interested in partnering?
Federations, schools, clubs, and nonprofit chess programs are welcome to reach out about curriculum agreements, consulting engagements, or bringing a workshop series to your region.