Hi,  my name is Tom and I am an administrator in a public elementary school in Louisville, KY.  I started an after-school chess club a couple of years ago.  I would like to invite anyone who works with kids and chess to contribute ideas or questions so that we may help each other out.  Thanks for posting. 

I myself personally thinks that you should be bringing board games such as chess andcheckers. Why because these are thinking board games that childrenshould know of. If you can find any other gmes similar to it great but I think you have to have chess and checkers. I hope this has helped you out alot! Oh yeah you should also get some of them to know this website, it`s great!   

Thanks for the reply.  I do plan on introducing my kids to this website, too bad they don't have a kids section ...  Do they??

Hi Tom,

My friend, frank713 on this website, coaches a children's chess club/team in Hawaii.  I am sure he would be happy to talk about it with you!

Take care, and good luck!

George

I would probably start them off with Chessmaster, which can really help their ability.

Hi all

I coach an English primary School chess club for about 12 years now,if i can be of any help please contact me.

Playing is the best way to improve a junior,if possible they should play people slightly better than them.

Richard

I run a chess program as well, and I have found that conducting each meeting with a similiar flow has its benefits.

I start off class with a game of chess everyone plays each other. The we move on to some basic tactics, like pins, forks, etc. Then some fun stuff, I switch off but the most popular is the excersise where we play a game like a vote chess game, one half versus the other, they each elect a group leader who is the only one allowed to touch the board and tells me what they discussed, then the moves are made and the winners then go back over the game with the rest of the class and explain the key moves on both sides, I usually only allow the group leaders to rediscuss so everyone else is at there seats.

 

Hope that helps. It is only a sampling though of a few meetings, I have many more methods.