Put some notices in chess clubs, schools and high schools ( colleges ) by e-mailing them.
How to get beginners into club chess??
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now thats an idea i hadnt thought of thanks...
Spend a significant portion of the club time teaching the new players something useful like tactics, opening strategy, basic checkmates, etc.
....and make sure that they don not feel like cannon fodder.
Which means?
Use drugs in some way.
hmmm interesting thanks for the responses so far....
farbror wrote:
....and make sure that they don not feel like cannon fodder.
Well, make sure that they get to play games where they have a chance to learn without be beaten to pieces
Ahhh ok thx
If you have enough players, you can run quad tournaments. That way you can put people with similar playing strength in groups of 4 together, so you don't have your A's and experts knocking your beginners about. Also, you'll kill your club if your high ranked players get tired of having to play beginners all the time.
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I've never seen this but what if you teamed the beginners up with more advanced players and played 2 on 2 or something. One decent player and one beginner on each side of the board.... Then the beginner can suggest moves and the more advanced player can help them logically make better moves than they would on their own and maybe have more fun because they're involved and even winning! Just a thought like I've said I've never seen it before.
"Newcomers night," yup, this is what I was going to suggest. Plenty of other good ones too.
Drugs? that would be one weird chess club Atlas, you could have lava lamps and projectors shooting psychedelics off the walls, fuzzy chess pieces and boards with irregular shaped squares and maybe some early Pink Floyd playing in the background and neon spiked punch for everyone;)
phishcake5 wrote:
"Newcomers night," yup, this is what I was going to suggest. Plenty of other good ones too. Drugs? that would be one weird chess club Atlas, you could have lava lamps and projectors shooting psychedelics off the walls, fuzzy chess pieces and boards with irregular shaped squares and maybe some early Pink Floyd playing in the background and neon spiked punch for everyone;)
Haha, and all the chess matches should be either Fischer Random or Suicide, just for extra bewilderment.
TheAOD wrote:
I've never seen this but what if you teamed the beginners up with more advanced players and played 2 on 2 or something. One decent player and one beginner on each side of the board.... Then the beginner can suggest moves and the more advanced player can help them logically make better moves than they would on their own and maybe have more fun because they're involved and even winning! Just a thought like I've said I've never seen it before.
I'm loving this suggestion.
This is a follow up to my enquiry about chess club building. I wanted to know how would u help get new players in particularly beginner level players into the chess club scene or at least check it out? Part of my trouble is that the few players in the club are 1400-1500+ level which is far to strong for beginners and so would lose a lot and i fear that would discourage them from coming back and so i wanted some advice on what i could do to improve the chances of them staying on and getting into chess as we have? pls help....