BCC SUMMER TRAINING CAMP: SMITH CAMPUS CENTER // HARVARD SQUARE // CAMBRIDGE // MASSACHUSETTS //

SMITH CAMPUS CENTER

HARVARD SQUARE, CAMBRIDGE

OUTDOOR CHESS FOR THE SUMMER

CASUAL GAMES, CHESS INSTRUCTION,

BLITZ CHESS, CHESS FOR FUN, CHESS FOR LEARNING

Leo (blue) shares a few insights with Sebastian (red)

Leo is 60. Sebastian is 6. Chess for all ages

at Smith Center, Harvard Square Cambridge.

Andrei From (left,hat) brings fascination of chess to the kids.

Smith Campus Center, Chess Plaza.

[The weather was spectactular.]

 INDOOR VENUE

Captain Cliff trains for speed and accuracy.

Moise Y. Safra Welcome Pavilion 

Smith Campus Center

IN THE EVENING

 

Women chess experts: Ellen, black vs Ella.

Nick observes. A fascinating experience.

 

Ella plays black vs Billy Collins eating ice-cream.
Two games were played. Each player won one game,
with the white pieces.
[Rafik, sitting, observes intently.]
GOOD WEATHER, GOOD CHESS

EXPERT CHESS 

 Michelle Chen plays Yang Dai, both BCC tournament
players and both MIT graduates . . . 
CHESS INSTRUCTION AND COACHING

Proud mummy photographs her young boy

just starting out on his chess career. He will

play in the scholastic section of the Massachusetts

Open (state chess championship) next week!  Photo:ChessPress

EXPLORING THE POSSIBILITIES

Steve Stepak watches intently as his young student
finds the move. Photo:ChessPress

Kids play chess at Smith Center, Harvard Square
OUTDOOR FUN FOR THE ENTIRE FAMILY 
 

MAKING A POINT

Chess Prodigy Seth with Steve Stepak, Smith Campus Center

Chess Plaza, Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA USA

CHESS OUTREACH

Steve Stepak engages enthralled kids of a Somerville

Field Trip, June 2019, Smith Campus Center

Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA USA

CONCEIVING THE PLAN 

 Steve Stepak teaches control of the center.

PRODIGY

 Steve Stepak plays black vs chess

prodigy from Taiwan, Sophie Tsai.

Sophie won every game she played up and down 

the Smith Center Campus Center

Harvard Square. Sophie is 11 years old and

will enter the 6th grade in Taipai in the Fall.

She has an uncanny and precise endgame

technique!! 

TENDER PERFECTION 

 Sophie

MASTER BLITZ

 Alex plays NM Joel Johnson visiting from Phoenix AZ

LONDON RUGBY 

 Steve Stepak takes on the entire high school London Rugby

team here in the Colonies to challenge local rugby.

Steve won all his games and preserved the honor of

chess in the Americas.

  CHESS HATS

STEVE.CHESS: SYNERGETICS

YOUNG AND OLD PLAY CHESS 

 Big John, 60 year veteran of chess plays black vs

Steve Stepak. On the Chess Plaza, Smith Campus

Center, Harvard University, Cambridge. Photo: BA 

FRENCH CONNECTION 

Marie France plays white vs Steve Stepak

Smith Campus Center, Harvard Square.

FATHER AND DAUGHTER

Chess instruction for the whole family.

BLITZ CHESS WORKOUT

 AFTERNOON CHESS ON THE PLAZA

SMITH CAMPUS CENTER, HARVARD SQUARE

 

 COMMEMORATING THE US CHESS OPEN 1988

PHOTOS AND STORY

STEVE STEPAK