Then, when you log on, look to the left for the 'Upcoming Tournaments' icon and see what tournaments you can join. Join the ChessKid Official Club so you can see all the tournaments available to play in hosted by ChessKid. If you are in a middle school chess elective class or on a middle or high school chess team, you also have access to ChessKid but have to log in using your assigned Username and Password.ĬhessKid sets up tournaments you can join each day. Elementary students can log in through Clever to gain access to your ChessKid account. Elementary chess clubs or teams are meeting online to play chess and improve their chess skills by solving puzzles, completing lessons, or watching chess videos, and you can join them too online whether you were orignally a member of a school chess club/team or not. This enables all elementary students to enjoy a chess extracurricular activity during the closure of school buildings. Although we look forward to the day we can play safely across the board with each other, we want to help prepare our chess team members as online chess tournaments become the main platform for competitive events for the foreseeable future.Įvery elementary student in Madison City Schools has a gold account provided by the school system.

Our Madison school chess club are holding virtual meetings now utilizing web meeting platforms to start the meeting, but also allowing kids to play online after some guidance and instruction. It is no surprise that during the onset of Covid-19, online chess is on the rise.

Online chess tournaments for beginners