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love2321

I honestly think this 8n't a good think

FireAndIce
Create a chess ladder with the Chess Ranking Assistant, https://www.add-ins.com/free-products/chess-ranking-assistant.htm. It is free
brother7
MooseMouse wrote:

Creb351, we have a volunteer(s) who operate a free rating system here in the Pacific NW USA, and it's one of the contributors to scholastic chess growth here.

I just took a look... 39634 entries in the rating database!

Do you know which program is used to calculate ratings?

MooseMouse

Northwest Ratings, and how they're calculated:  http://ratingsnw.com/more/how-ratings-work/

rao_programmer

Identify your reason for starting the club. Keep it simple, and focus on your goal. Even a few friends can form a small group meet-up style club, completely informal and fun. Whatever the size you hope to start, you'll have a motivating purpose and person, or group of persons behind your new chess club. <a href="https://www.fiverr.com/rao_programmer/do-responsive-and-cheapest-ecommerce-website-in-wordpress">Cheapest Wordpress Websites</a>

Asaw_Official

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V3RD1CT

i dont because my school doesnt have any chess club sadge

arshsehgal0601
ActionVolt wrote:

i dont because my school doesnt have any chess club sadge

 

Closed_username1234

There should be a coach. Whether it be the OP or someone else. Considering the OP is only 1100 they might need to find someone a bit higher rated for the job.

Coming together to play is ok, but if it's at a school, there should be teaching involved.

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FireAndIce
Create a chess ladder using a rating system like chess.com. Free software here: https://www.add-ins.com/free-products/chess-ranking-assistant.htm
Dennis_Petersen

I was fortunate that in my state there were two oranizations for scholastic chess both ran state championships. One organization you had to play in their regional tounaments in the state and finish first or second to play in their state championship. The other organization ran tournament most weekends all year long. You only had to play in two of their tournaments to play in their state championship. High schools in my city have a league. Many areas of the state run high school leagues. There is a high school state championship. Any highschool can play in the state championship. There are divisions just as in football etc. I coached the high school team. I went to the athletic director and told him I would buy the sets and boards if the school furnished the clocks told him my goal was to win a state championship. I told him if I was going to commit my time everyone on the team would get a varsity letter. He agreed. My first year I had 16 students on the team . I should mention here I also coached my son's middle school team and three of the kids including my son played on the same team in middle school, it was a Catholic high school out of the public system so I had a great start to the team. I created team shirts and sweat shirts 3 color graffics. League play one day a week and the team met in the library sessions lasted as long as there were players. I made the team wear their team shirts on league days. Advertised on the school pa system the time buses left for league play decorated the halls and cafeteria for the state team championships. By my last year as coach I had 70 kids in chess club on Fridays in the library. Had a very large number of girls which helped I am sure. There were 35 members of the varsity chess team seven teams of five. There state chess rating dictated which team they played on top team competed for the varsity state championship next team competed for the jv state title and the other five teams played in the open section for that state title. Boy I had a ball took two school buses to get the team to league and the state championships. In the last two years the boosters adopted us payed for our travel and hotel food and team shirts and sweat shirts. We had to pay our own way in the beginning. We won the 4a state championship twice a 5 a state title and overall state championship as a 4 a school beating a 6a school. Banner in the gym along with the football, basketball etc. My son just graduated from dental school doctor Petersen my job is done

ngl5000

Another option which pairs happy.png nicely with a scholastic program is Chess Nut You can run private events and it will handle the pairing of round robins, swiss style tournaments, etc. You can input a starting rating and the software tells you what the expected ending event rating is based on several factors. You can then use that as the starting rating for the next event. Hope this helps!

helasMINH

Hello

checkmated0001

I just resurrected my school's chess club, after our last student leader mostly killed it. Since then I've been reaching out to various organizers in the state, and have helped to set up our first ever competitive chess team. We have three players, all of which are relatively good (1200-1700), including myself. Any suggestions for team training or other things would be much appreciated.

checkmated0001

Just to clarify, the club has more than three players. However only three are on the chess team.

MooseMouse

Hello checkmated0001, for suggestions on team training, visit the Scholastic Chess Teachers Lounge. It also has a collection of "How to Run a Chess Club" guides, an index to the old Chess Coach's Newsletter, and a pinned post on actual field reports of what high school chess clubs are really doing.

checkmated0001

That works, thanks.