Zahir teaching student at Howard University the idea of a chess pin.
Zahir teaching Lily about pawn structure in Chinese. Beijing, China.
Zahir teaches new Howard Students the fundamentals of chess out on the yard!
Zahir teaching young students at Kids and Culture Camp about the opening.
Zahir teaching one of the Howard University students!
In the long term, Zahir hopes to start his own chess team. Zahir is the oldest of four children, and credits his father for teaching him how to play chess and his mother for driving him around to numerous practices and tournaments. When asked who inspires him most towards excellence, he points to the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan whose consistency and strength motivates him to achieve greatness in chess and in life. -DC Scholastic Chess https://dcscholasticchess.org/chess-news