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About

Chess taught at school, followed at home.

Chess Knowledge FZE teaches chess to children in the United Arab Emirates. This app is the part of it parents see: what happened in the lesson, how the term is going, and what has been paid for.

A chess lesson is an hour a parent is not in the room for. What happened in it used to arrive as a message in a group chat, if it arrived at all, and what was owed for the term arrived somewhere else entirely.

So the coaches write the lesson up in the app, the academy reads it before it goes out, and the family opens one place to find it. The timetable, the reports, the progress and the invoices sit next to each other because for a parent they were never separate things.

A lesson report in the app: the coach's note, and a score out of ten for each skill.

How a term actually runs.

The lesson happens at school

Coaches teach during the week at the schools children already attend, so a chess class does not turn into another drive across the city.

The coach writes it up

What was covered, what went well, what to work on, and a score out of ten for each skill. Nothing reaches a parent before the academy has reviewed it.

The term adds up to something

Reports accumulate into attendance and skill movement across the term, and into a FIDE rating for the children who compete.

What we hold ourselves to.

  • A child has no account, no password and no device of their own.
  • We do not collect photographs of children.
  • There is no advertising in the app, and we do not sell data.
  • Card details are handled by our payment provider and never reach our servers.
  • You can erase your account and everything in it at any time.
The privacy policy sets all of this out in full

The company

Chess Knowledge FZE, licence RAKIA80FZ607114372, registered with the Ras Al Khaimah Economic Zone Authority (RAKEZ), Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates.

Talk to us

We reply within one working day. For anything about the app itself, the support page answers most of it already.