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| Junior Instructors: Slava Koza |
 Well Slava is me, so I have no idea what to say that won't make me sound full of myself :. In any case I enjoy working with kids, and I think because of that I am popular with them. One of the reasons behind that is I am a kid myself, forever trapped in the body of a growing adult.
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| Junior Instructors: Solomon Lerner |
 Solomon is another exceptional player, and works well with kids. He is also very athletic besides being good at chess, and that really comes in handy during the summer Program.
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| Junior Instructors: Jonathon Lamdan |
 Jonathon is a really good player, and a very nice, likeable guy. He is really cooperative and usually comes up with great exercises for the kids.
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| Beginner and Intermediate Coach, Zoya Koza |
 Zoya is a certified New York Board of Education Teacher, and has around 12 years of experience working with kids in a school setting (and 20 raising me, her son :).
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| Senior Coach (Tournament Director), Harrison Coleman |
 Harrison is a master chess player and a certified Tournament Director. He has basically directed all of the ICA tournaments ever held since 2000. A very pleasant person to talk to, kids like to cling to him like monkeys on a tree branch.
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| Senior Coach, Gregory Markzon |
 Gregory is one of those people, who can be called a "natural" chess player. Unofficially the term describes that special breed of player that at some point in his/her life, basically breathes, eats, sleeps, and dreams chess. Fortunately for us at the ICA, Gregory is, or at least in his opinion, used to be such a ferocious player.
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| Co-Founder Irina Levitina |
 Irina is one of the most accomplished woman players from the days of the Soviet Union. Irina was a three-time USSR Women's Champion in 1971, 1979, and 1980, as well as winner of the Women's Olympiad in 1972 (scoring 5.5 out of 6), in 1974 (scoring 7.5 out of 9), and in 1984 (scoring 6.5 out of 11). Irina was given the rank of Woman's International Grand Master in 1976.
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| Founder-Diana Tulman |
 Diana is the humorously dubbed "criminal mastermind" behind the ICA's inception. Always sharing an avid love for Chess, Diana was at one time Champion of the Soviet Republic of Moldova. 5 years after arriving in the United States, and a little while after moving to New Jersey Diana opened up the Teaneck Chess School ( a little on the history can be found here ) along with Irina Levitina (read farther down).
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| IM Sergey Grabuzov |
 Sergei is both a graduate of the "Russian State Uuniversity of Physical Education," (http://www.sportedu.ru/), and a respected senior member of its faculty. Since 1990 Sergei has trained and prepared a total of 5 current Grandmasters, as well as just about an infinite amount of International Masters.
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| GM Artur Jussupow |
 Appearing three times in the semi-finals of the world championship, Artur is unquestionably considered one of the best players of the last two decades. Artur is one of Mark Dvoretsky's star pupils, and was a key element in the preparation of many of today's younger Grandmasters such as: Peter Svidler, Vadim Zviaginstev, Alexei Alexandrov and Sergei Movsesian.
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| GM Alex Chernin |
 Currently Based out of Hungary, Alex "Sasha" Chernin is a former candidate to the title of world champion, as well as former Soviet co-champion. Chernin has also authored a number of best selling books, the most famous of which being the "Pirc Alert!"
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| IM Mark Dvoretsky |
 Is arguably the single best chess trainer/coach in the entire world (an argument you would probably win at that). Dvoretsky has been an International Master for well over 25 years (29 in fact, but next year we can just say 30;), and included among his many accomplishments, are the preparation and development of world famous Grand-Masters, such as, Artur Yusupov (read further down about Artur), Sergei Dolmatov, Alexei Dreev, Andrey Zvyagintsev, and Victor Bologan...
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