Chess Club meets Thursdays after school from 3:00pm - 4:30pm in the Muhlenberg Middle School Library. All students to any skill level are welcome to attend! 

Chess Resources 

• Online Chess Analysis -- If you record your game, you can play through it using this database. Input the moves and the computer will "score" the game (the greater the positive number, the better for white; the lower the negative number, the better for black; the closer to zero, the game is even). Computer will also show you its "thinking" for the next few moves. An excellent resource for improvement! 
• Chess.com has a tremendous amount of materials to help improve your game, many of which are free. 
• 365Chess.com is an awesome online database of chess games. Learn what openings work and what moves lead to the best results for white or black by researching with a database of 3.5 MILLION chess games! 

Why Play Chess? 

Because it's fun? If that's not enough, I'll point you to sevearl links that show how chess can be important in influential for developing minds. 

• Playing Chess Opens Doors to College Scholarships 
  Read about the winner of the 8th Annual Kasparov Chess Foundation All Girls Championship, and the scholarship she received. 
• Scholastic Chess -- A gateway to STEM Education
  Read about the largest chess tournament in North Carolina and how chess can be a gateway to an education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. 
• The Beneifts of Chess in Education
  A great collection of articles on chess in education. Here's a great qoute: "Pete Shaw, a computer-science teacher, has taught hundreds of kids in Pulaski, Virginia, to play chess. “It’s like turning on switches in their heads,” he says. “You feel as though you can watch the brain working through a window. The game demands both inductive and deductive reasoning. You see the kid looking at a problem, breaking it down, then putting the whole thing back together. The process involves recall, analysis, judgment, and abstract reasoning.”
• Education Value of Chess
  "In 2000, a landmark study found that students who received chess instruction scored significantly higher on all measures of academic achievement, including math, spatial analysis, and non-verbal reasoning ability (Smith and Cage, 2000)."