About Mr. Joe
Who is Mr. Joe?
Mr. Joe’s Chess has been teaching fun hands-on chess lessons to local elementary schools and children in north San Diego County, including Encinitas, Carlsbad, and Cardiff, since 2012. Using Giant Chess pieces on a seventeen-foot board and teaching in an outside environment, his classes are fun and exciting.
In his free time, Mr. Joe enjoys hanging out with his family and friends, surfing, skating, listening to music, making pizzas, and doing downward dogs.
Why Mr. Joe?
Chess is such a fun, endless game of activating and energizing your brain – a back and forth momentum game just like an exciting soccer or basketball game. Once kids learn the basics of chess they can start to build the pathways in their brain to improve critical thinking skills, analyzing, logic and patience.
A variety of fun hands-on lessons are used to teach chess in a way that is different from most chess schools. Giant chess pieces lined up on a seventeen foot chess board in an outdoor environment makes learning the basics of chess fun & exciting. Some lessons are taught on a skateboard called the “checkmate skate” which is used to illustrate chess piece movement and strategy. Keeping classes fun & light, kids have the option to use Super Mario Chess, Charlie Brown Chess, Marvel Super Hero Chess, Surf Chess, Scooby Doo Chess, as well as the super flexible bendable chess pieces.
Many kids are “wiggly” & hyper thus Mr. Joe’s uses exercise, movement, to break up his classes so that all kids can focus and learn chess. Mr. Joe loves his job and is always working on new ideas to keep classes fresh, fun, and exciting.
