Get to know the TCAMA Instructors.
Chris Torres
President
Chris Torres is a nationally renowned scholastic chess coach working in both Bakersfield and the San Francisco Bay Area. His classes have attracted players of strengths ranging from rank beginners to world champions. A chess professional since 1998, Chris is widely recognized as one of the main driving forces behind the explosion in popularity and sudden rise in quality of scholastic chess in California. Currently, Chris Torres has the ranking of candidate master and serves as the President of the Torres Chess and Music Academy. Mr. Torres’ hobbies include playing classical guitar and getting his students to appear on the national top 100 chess rating lists.
Email: chesslessons@aol.com
Andrew Strommen
Vice President
Andrew Strommen started teaching chess with various chess companies starting in late 2000, and has been working with the TCAMA since its inception. With Chris Torres, Andrew has built many strong up-and-coming chess clubs from Pleasanton to Cupertino
to San Bruno and everywhere in between. His enthusiastic spirit in the classroom as well as one-on-one tutoring environments has inspired even the unlikeliest of chess players. Andrew plays and studies regularly, and is known over-the-board for his brutal blitz bullishness, and his scheming tactical bravado.
to San Bruno and everywhere in between. His enthusiastic spirit in the classroom as well as one-on-one tutoring environments has inspired even the unlikeliest of chess players. Andrew plays and studies regularly, and is known over-the-board for his brutal blitz bullishness, and his scheming tactical bravado.
Email: tastypawns@hotmail.com
