Cultivating the joy of giving and learning with Gift of Chess

by Aditya Sur Roy - 01/07/2025

You will never know what miracles you are capable of until you set out to create them yourself. On the 29th of June, members of Tribe 64 chess and TeachChess India gathered at Cheers Foundation in Hyderabad. The idea was to spread the knowledge and the joy of learning chess. Team Gift of chess and Ambit were kind enough to send us two-hundred chess sets for donations in Hyderabad which will be distributed at various homes and shelters in the city with the help of our amazing volunteers in the coming days. Tribe64 Chess is a special initiative by Communitie Hyderabad to grow and promote the game of chess in the city of Hyderabad and its surrounding areas. TeachChess India, Hyderabad ChessBase India and Communitie Hyderabad have the common mission to grow the love of the game among youngsters who do not get the chance to learn and improve their game. All photos by Aditya Sur Roy

We donated ten chess sets to the Cheers Foundation and we were amazed to see the curiosity in the youngsters to learn chess. Some of them even knew how to solve mate in one and two problems while others were curious enough to know how the knight moves.

Aditya Sur Roy with a talented kid at the foundation teaching basic rules

Solving tactics on a streak. We were amazed to see how good some of the kids are

Engrossed in learning and playing chess

Vansh teaching chess. He is one of the key members who coordinated this initiative

Jatin is very good with the basics of chess. He is explaining how to set up the board

Raman Kumar T is a regular volunteer who is a great player himself, loves to teach chess

Pavan Narendra with the kids. Pavan is a regular volunteer and loves teaching chess

Pavan and Sahitya explaining the rules

Everyone engrossed in learning at Cheer's Foundation

The kids already started playing after few lessons

Pratik and Jatin teaching basic chess rules

The amazing chess set from Gift of Chess and Ambit with learning sheets

The smiling faces while learning how powerful the queen is to solving chess problems, you could see the joy of learning across the room. And of course we also played some fun games while we got some time in between, there’s no stopping that.

Volunteers Pratik Dehury and Priyam Thakuria engaged themselves in a game

One of the talented kids, who already knows how to solve mate in two and one in action

Aditya Sur Roy enjoying the role of a chess teacher sharing basic rules of the game, photo by Pratik

The sparkling interest in these kids motivates us to visit them more often and share our knowledge with them and with partners like Gift of chess, Ambit, Tribe64 Chess, and the wonderful volunteers to join us everyday, possibilities are endless. We want to thank the volunteers for taking their time out and coming together. Raman T Kumar, Rakesh Gupta, Jatin, Pavan Narendra, Pratik Dehury, Sahitya, Priyam Thakuria, and Vansh. We will keep posting about all the upcoming drives, if you are in Hyderabad and want to join, please feel free to join.