Life National Master Noureddine Ziane, is a nationally renowned children's chess coach who co-founded USA Chess in 1997 and sold the company in 2004. He has a B.S. in Computer Science (2000) and an MBA (2002) from the University of Texas at Dallas where he was the first ever UTD chess scholarship recipient and the captain and board 1 of the chess team for four years. A native of Morocco, Mr. Ziane was the Moroccan National Junior Champion at age 15, and later, as an exchange student living in Rochester, N.Y., he won the New York State High School Chess Championship. It is at the Rochester Chess Center that he discovered his passion for teaching and quickly earned a name for himself as being excellent communicator. Mr. Ziane also attended Shimer College in Illinois on a full chess scholarship prior to attending UTD. While in Illinois he coached several state and national champions and earned the prestigious ‘Billy Colias Excellence in Teaching Award’ awarded by the Illinois Chess Association. Mr. Ziane is an extremely in-demand instructor and has coached thousands of students throughout the past 15 years. An innumerable amount of his students and teams have won local, regional and national championships.