Durant is the chess coach at Thomas Edison Charter school, two time national chess champions in the last three years. Durant begins his talk with a brilliant and clever description of the game, with particular attention paid to the underrated, underappreciated pawns. While pawns are not powerful, they can be, if they are pushed to promotion, wherein they can become anything. Durant moves on to discuss how they did it -- each dimension of making chess popular and exciting to kids, as well as the demands they made of the team. Finally, he asks each in the audience to find a pawn, and push.
Walter Nathan Durant is currently a teacher and chess coach at Thomas A. Edison Charter School in Wilmington Delaware. As a chess coach he has helped his students achieve great success, winning multiple Mid-Atlantic chess championships, and State Championships in both Delaware and Pennsylvania. In 2014, his students were the first from Delaware to win a National Chess Championship. And in 2016 they won their second National Championship in three years. Walter Durant uses chess as a tool to teach his students about life. He believes that in both chess and in life, success is determined by your actions. Walter received a B.A. from Kutztown University, and a M.ED in School Leadership form Wilmington University.
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