About Us

Mind Chess Academy
智育西洋棋训练

Do you know the Penang’s oldest chess academy?  Mind Chess Academy was founded since 2001 in Penang , Malaysia. 
The academy consists of 2 chess coaches with master tile, Arena Grand Master Loo Swee Leong and National Master Tan Khai Boon.
 We have trained many national and international chess champions for 20 years and still counting!
 Our customers are happy with the changes to their children. You can know that by reading their testimonials.

Why Choose Us?

Mind Chess Academy's features that customer like

This was a survey to our customers of what they like about our chess school.  As you can see, what our customers like the most is the patience our coaches have when teaching young beginners. Mind Chess Academy has 7 unique features that you can’t find elsewhere in Penang:
1. We understand our students individually by analyzing their games to see if they apply what they have learned. At Mind Chess, we believe “Be more practical than theoretical”.
2. Grading System with certificate base on real game tournament performance and online tournament rating, not base on assumption of coach or student.

Mind Chess Grading System with abilities

3. Checklist Stickers which summarize our chess lessons. We mark on the skill they have applied on the sticker when they show us in their real game. They master the skills according to their own pace, rather than keep learning advanced theory that they cannot catch up.

Mind Chess Checklist Stickers

4. Our logo “Building Great Mind Since 2001” show our believe that the purpose of learning chess is to gain the 5 Thinking Skills, rather than just chess knowledge which you can’t apply in real life situation.
5. We have our online chess club at chess.com and we organize online chess tournaments and club matches with clubs from other states and countries for our students for more exposure.  
6. Coach Loo is a certified National Arbiter (referee) who organizes Penang chess tournament once in a month. We encourage our students to take part in tournament actively.
7.  Mind Chess Personalized Opening is 50 pages of openings that summarized from thousands of pages of opening. It is systematically arranged, complete repertoires and personalized to student needs. Not just 1 or 2 openings.