America's Foundation for Chess
{{Infobox organization
| name = America's Foundation for Chess
| former_name = Seattle Chess Foundation
| image =
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| formation = {{Start date and age|2000|06}}
| founder = Erik Anderson, Laurie and Scott Oki, Yasser Seirawan
| type = Non-profit
| status = Foundation
| purpose = Chess education
| headquarters = Bellevue, Washington, U.S.
| coords = {{Coord|47.641|-122.192|type:landmark_region:US|display=inline,title}}
| affiliations = United States Chess Federation
| website = {{url|www.firstmovechess.org/}}
}}
America's Foundation for Chess (AF4C) is a nonprofit chess foundation based in Bellevue, Washington, United States, a suburb of Seattle.{{sfn|McClain|2005a}} It was founded in June 2000 by Scott Oki and Laurie Oki as the Seattle Chess Foundation.{{sfn|Tice|2002}}{{sfn|Kaech|2003}} Entrepreneur Erik Anderson and grandmaster Yasser Seirawan are also credited as founders of America's Foundation for Chess.{{sfn|Forbes|2013}}{{sfn|Ramirez|2000}}
The foundation was originally formed downtown Seattle, in the Norton Building, and soon after moved into the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle. It eventually ended up at Carillon Point, in suburban Kirkland, Washington,{{sfn|Christensen|2007}} and moved to Bellevue in 2013.{{cite news|title=Good news: First Move is growing!|work=Official blog|publisher=America's Foundation for Chess|date=September 11, 2013|url=http://1stmove.org/2013/09/11/good-news-first-move-is-growing/|accessdate=2013-12-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131213022904/http://1stmove.org/2013/09/11/good-news-first-move-is-growing/|archive-date=December 13, 2013|url-status=dead}}
AF4C sponsored the U.S. Chess Championship starting in 1999.{{sfn|Ramirez|2000}}
First Move
The foundation's First Move curriculum uses chess as a learning tool in second and third grade classrooms to teach critical and creative thinking skills and improve overall academic achievement. First Move is taught one hour per week, over the course of the school year. The Chess Lady teaches the curriculum via streaming video, classroom teachers facilitate the activities and can learn with their students. In 2014-15 the program will serve about 140,000 students across the United States and a few schools internationally.
See also
Notes and references
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- {{citation|url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/erik-anderson/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102015145/http://www.forbes.com/profile/erik-anderson/|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 2, 2012|work=Forbes|year=2013|title=Erik Anderson profile|ref={{harvid|Forbes|2013}}}}
- {{citation|title=To 'Chess Lady,' game is more than fun|first=Mary Beth |last=Marklein|newspaper=USA Today|date=March 29, 2011|url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/education/2011-03-29-chesslady29_ST_N.htm}}
- {{citation|title=Newcomer's Handbook for Moving to and Living in Seattle: Including Bellevue, Redmond, Everett, and Tacoma|first=Maria |last=Christensen|publisher=First Books|year=2007|isbn=9780912301730}}
- {{citation|date=March 15, 2004 |newspaper=The Seattle Times|title=Got game? Foundation promotes chess as classroom learning tool|first=Sanjay |last=Bhatt|url=http://seattletimes.com/html/education/2001879251_chess15m.html}}
- {{citation|date=May 19, 2002|newspaper=Puget Sound Business Journal|title=The generosity of 2002 First Citizens Scott and Laurie Oki inspires others to give|first=Carol |last=Tice|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2002/05/20/focus1.html}}
- {{citation|title=U.S. Chess Federation and America's Foundation for Chess Announce Partnership|work=Press release|first=Joan|last= DuBois|date=September 19, 2006|publisher=United States Chess Federation and America's Foundation for Chess|url=http://www.uschess.org/content/view/7717/319/}}
- {{citation|title=Idaho Turns to Chess as Education Strategy|last=McClain|first=Dylan Loeb|newspaper=The New York Times|date=March 20, 2008|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/20/us/20chess.html}}
- {{citation|title=Chess, the Game of Royalty, Is Now the Game of Grade Schoolers, Too|last=McClain|first=Dylan Loeb|newspaper=The New York Times|date=October 5, 2005a|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/05/crosswords/chess/05chess.html}}
- {{citation|last=McClain|first=Dylan|title=Financiers Put Money on Chess Futures Now |newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://nytimes.com/2005/05/21/arts/21ches.html|date=May 21, 2005b |quote=The America's Foundation for Chess has also become the primary fund-raiser and supporter of the United States Championship. }}
- {{citation|title=In chess world, Seattle becomes major player|first= Marc |last=Ramirez|newspaper=The Seattle Times |date=September 24, 2000|url=https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/20000924/4044369/in-chess-world-seattle-becomes-major-player}}
- {{citation|title=Northwest Washington Scholastic Chess — Chess Resources|last=Kaech|first=Randy|year=2003|url=http://www.northwestchess.info/resources.html}}