Would you like to keep your high school chess club meeting online or start a new online club during the pandemic?
Your friends will really appreciate you running the club during this challenging time. Don’t be afraid to experiment and try different things to see what works best for your club. There are several free platforms that you can use to play like chess.com and lichess.org. These articles describe how to use their club/team features:
- https://support.chess.com/article/125-how-do-i-create-a-club
- https://lichess.org/blog/XnEFmRAAAB4A7WU7/running-your-chess-club-online
It is important to provide your club members a way to socialize when you meet otherwise they could just play online on their own. You could use Google Meet or Zoom.
You could start your meeting with announcements, looking at your club leaderboard (https://support.chess.com/article/781-what-are-leaderboards), warm up with puzzle rush (https://www.chess.com/puzzles/rush) or by reviewing an interesting game from one of your members, and then play. During some meetings you could play blitz or bughouse (https://www.chess.com/bughouse).
Since other high school clubs are also meeting online, you could arrange some friendly online matches with other NC schools. Your school’s foreign language teachers may have relationships with high schools in other countries, so they may be able to help you arrange a match with one of those schools.
Please add comments to let us know what works (and what didn’t work) for your club.
Thank you!
Indermaur Chess Foundation 