Have them join here and play constantly.
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Apr 10, 2016
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#3
Don't drop any pieces!!!
Really, that's about half the game right there.
Apr 10, 2016
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#4
Ask the tournament directors if they can offer larger second-place trophies. Might get you more members. 
If meeting once a week gets your team 2nd place, you need to add 2 more meetings a month. More study, more sparring games for better results.
Apr 10, 2016
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#6
Huey's story reminded me of my HS team's sad fate in the 1978 eastern Massachusetts regional playoff. Our board 1 on the A-Team missed the event due to excessive pot smoking the night before. This moved everyone up a board and made me board 5 on the A-Team instead of board 1 on the B-Team. Neither team did well and Salem High kicked everyone's ass.
So don't drop pieces, and everybody show up!
thanks for the feedback, how should I fundraise for our highschool team
Most fundraising is applicable to any clubs, and there's plenty of online examples. For chess clubs specifically, hosting a chess tournament may be a good means of fundraising. 5 years or so ago, I played YuGiOh religiously, and a local comic store nearby would host weekly tournaments where the winner earned everybody's $5 entrance fee. Perhaps using that type of system?
Any ways of joining online high school leagues
I don't know much about highschool online chess leagues at all, sorry.
Are there any highschool leagues across ontario that my highschool can join
Apr 12, 2016
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#12
Literary devices aside, I learned about obligations and letting people down.
I'm the president of my school's club, and we all have accounts on here and we play outside of club and during club. We dicsuss games and moves, and the higher-ranked players (like myself) generally guide the discussions to analyze everything, even if it means dismissing a play as unworthy. Once you get everyone to collaborate and look at the board in lots of different ways, it really does help with everyone's individual games as well as teamwork.
HueyWilliams wrote:
Not really sure what this kid is complaining about. Our HS club had no chess clocks, no coaches (1800 or otherwise), and the faculty sponsor used to habitually play 1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Bc4 h6 (he would play that against 3 Bb5 too...think maybe he read the book wrong way back when?). We did meet every day at least--at lunchtime--and there were 4 of us that were probably somewhere in the 1500s. And HS chess championships? Yeah right. We had a sort of half-assed county championship once (that one of the teams didn't even show up for). Meanwhile the best HS player in the county--at 1739--was off playing for money at a real tournament that weekend.
When I was your age, we had to make our pieces out of mud and twigs. And we had to travel to other schools in 3 feet of snow with no shoes, uphill. And we LIKED IT!
thanks for the information
Are there any chess tournaments across ontario meant for high school students
Apr 13, 2016
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#17
Just play in regular chess tournaments. You improve by playing better people.
How can our high school chess team recieve sponsors
Apr 14, 2016
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#19
Sponsors? How much money do you need that you can't either get it out of the activities budget or bum it off your parents?
How can I improve my highschool chess club. We go to chess tournaments and always come second. We meet once a week, we have chess coaches who are rated 1800-2000. We have chess clocks, and next year we are going to the ontario highschool chess championships. What should I do to improve our highschool chess club. Any suggestions.