Starting a Chess Club is easy.  It begins with as few as 2 players who want one!  There are many resources available on the Internet to give you the guidance and basic requirements necessary.  A Chess Club can hold a weekly meeting before or after school in a school, a public library, a public meeting room available in most banks, even someone's house.

     All you really need is tables big enough to hold two or three chess boards (2' x 6' or 2' x 8'), chairs, and one chess board for every 2 players.  So, if you have 10 players, you would need 5 chess boards and sets.  Things like chess clocks and a demo board can be added later.

     What do you do at a chess club?  Obviously you play some chess.  But to be an effective Club, you must do more than just beat up on each other.  The goal of the club should be to help each and every member get progressively better.  You do this by getting together around a chess set and exploring new openings, new tactics, how to end a game with a win instead of a draw or loss.  You go over each other's tournament games (using the chess notation every good chess player learns to do), and find the better move, or the line that cost the game. 

     By doing this, everyone learns together.  A Chess Club is born.

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