Please note: Don't bother commenting if you don't have anything useful to say about this video or our ideas and you are only commenting to share your self-centered feelings about the music we chose as background to the voice-over. Our goal in starting a chess club is to get as many kids as possible involved in this great sport. Not just a couple kids whose moms have cars who can bring them to the public library. But ones who might come just because it's right after school and their mamaw may possibly remember to pick them up when they don't show up at home. Where they'll get a free snack and a drink and encouragement. Where they might be swayed from the life they normally would have to live in (or the life they die by as one of the kids in this video sadly grew up to be butchered into pieces in a drug deal gone bad). If you have the resources, reach out. If you have the time, reach out. Even if you don't. Reach out. Starting a chess club after school, at school, AND MAKING IT FUN will get more kids to come and can make a difference in the lives of others who truly need it, creating a better world for all of us.
Anyway...
Starting a chess club is a great idea! Our Walton-Verona meets after school once a week at the elementary school cafeteria since we outgrew the library and also at the High School Middle School Library for the older kids. We run the club from late fall to early spring. After using borrowed sets from teachers and parents, the school went ahead and bought tournament-style boards and pieces from one of the chess stores on-line. Parents take turns bringing drinks and/or snacks and the kids help with the setup and cleanup.
Several parents run the club, giving beginners instructions on how to play, showing more advanced moves as kids progress, and keeping everything orderly. We use a vinyl demo board to display to the whole group how certain moves work. Middle school and high schoolers help out and take on some of the more advanced students or each other. Teachers even stop by to give the kids a game.
We like to have the winners play winners and "learners" play learners so that everybody gets to have a chance to meet others and play different people. We have mini Blitz Chess tournaments throughout the year where the kids have to use a clock and at the end of the year we have a "Wizard Chess" day with a large board the parents made and the top two players get to square off with "live" chess pieces. We've also done a shield design contest and given prizes to kids who win the most games on a certain day.
There are many ways to run a chess club, these are just a few ideas that have worked well for our club. Good luck and have fun!
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