Is your business looking for fresh ideas to build or maintain a competitive advantage?

Build your business with associates who think strategically, visualize the future and solve problems. Checkmate your competition by using a cost effective activity that is challenging yet enjoyable.

In corporate training, games are serious business. Invest in a Chess-Now training program if you want to enhance your bottom line through better planning and critical analysis. Watch your thinking
skills improve while applying business strategy and tactics on the chessboard.

Business schools have been using the Chess Model of doing deliberate practice for over 80 years. Find out how leading MBA programs use the same techniques strong chess players use. See MBA

Chess-Now is working with the Corporate Learning Institute (CLI) to help their clients build better strategic thinking skills See Corporate Learning Institute.

Chess-Now is featured in career coaching tips from Corporate Coaching International. The Chess model of practice helps build strategic thinking skills. See Coaching Tips.

NEW - Tennis Symposium Presentation

Chess-Now President and Founder, Jim Egerton will be presenting at the Professional Tennis Registry (PTR) symposium February 13-17 at Hilton Head S.C. His topic will be Checkmate - Teach Your Players to Build Strategies Like a Chess Game.

Mr. Egerton is a certified tennis instructor with PTR which is the largest tennis teachers organization in the world. See PTR for more information.

Chamber of Commerce Presentation

Mr. Egerton will be speaking February 9th at the Lisle Chamber of Commerce Women in Business meeting. His topic is on the importance of Strategic Thinking in Business. For details see WIB-Lisle

The Troubled Vegas Skyline
The National Open moved but the Vegas skyline stayed much the same. For 2009 updates on mega-resorts like Encore, Echelon and Fountainebleau See Leisure.

Our expanding community-based programs

"Chess - A Game for the Ages" will be presented at the Itasca Public Library this spring. This event is open to the public For details See Itasca.

Need help setting up your school chess program, check out our Chess-Now solutions at Education.

Our summer community instruction programs will introduce "From the Chessboard to the Tennis Court" linking strategies and tactics used in both games. See Naperville to find out more and where there's a program near you.

Chess-Now introduced "Chess - the Intelligent Side of Your Game" at area health clubs promoting the synergies of chess with tennis, golf, running and wellness. See Glen Ellyn for details.

Even the National Basketball Association used chess to promote their 2009 playoffs relating chess skills to what happens on the court. For more information see NBA.

Chess-Now is assisting the Sociology Department at Northwestern University with a study about how people choose to use their leisure time.  Chess is one of the activities being researched.