My name is Zachary Goldman and my background includes: having served as an intellectually creative and devout rabbi, an integrative psychotherapist, a successful entrepreneur in the natural products and global food industry, a writer, and a devoted and caring father and husband. In Chess, my most influential teacher has been the well-known Chess author and International Master Jeremy Silman. My Chess heroes are players and champions like Mikhail Tal and Judit Polgar. I am a Club player who teaches beginner, intermediate, and lower-level advanced adult students of Chess.