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
Business
Coaching Tips are being introduced to help professionals
see how chess can improve your strategic thinking. See this
month's CoachingTip.
Chess-Now
has been selected to coach the top leadership
of a global think tank and research
firm. Classes will be held in the US
as well as India and China.

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Better
Strategic Thinking with Chess
Chess-Now is working with Corporate Learning Institute
(CLI) to help their clients build better strategic
thinking skills See Corporate
Learning Institute.
Corporate
Coaching
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.
Chamber
of Commerce Presentation
Chess-Now President and Owner, Jim Egerton will be speaking
at a Lisle Chamber of Commerce Women in Business
meeting on the importance of Strategic Thinking in
Business.
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Sponsors Chess
PWC Canada was the lead corporate sponsor of the Toronto Open
Chess Tournament. For more information and results on this
successful event see PWC.
Changing
Vegas Skyline
While the National Open played inside the Riviera, outside,
the skyline chessboard continued to change. For pictures of
mega-resorts like Encore, Echelon and Palazzo See
Leisure.

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Our
community-based programs continue to expand. Brookfield
and North Riverside are the latest communities to join our
summer instruction programs. Chess is popular even during
challenging times. Find out where there's
a program near you.
NEW
- Chess-Now is introducing "Chess - the Intelligent
Side of Your Game" at area health clubs.
Health Track Sports Wellness and Wheaton Sport Center are
using chess to complement tennis, golf, running and wellness
with their clients. See See
Glen Ellyn or See
Wheaton for details.
The
National Basketball Association is using chess to promote
their 2009 playoffs as the Game of Kings. Top players are
shown using their chess skills to relate 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. More information to follow.
Need
an interesting speaker at your next meeting? Consider having
Chess-Now present "Chess - A Game for the Ages".
See What We Offer for
details.

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