If you ever happen to find yourself at the Kingside Diner on a Sunday, you will find it packed with parents and children alike eager to learn from the certified staff and resident grandmaster from the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis (CCSCSL).
Some of the occupants you find will be new in attendance, testing the waters to see if the Sunday classes are a good fit. Others have been in attendance for weeks while there are also children who have been dutifully attending the classes for months.
Increased and continued attendance at the kids’ classes on Sunday makes sense. Besides being taught by a grandmaster, the experience provides children an opportunity to learn and play with their peers as well as participate in group reasoning and problem solving. Participants are given chess problems to solve and they learn together as different moves are proposed and different solutions are examined by the grandmaster.
The Sunday classes reach a variety of experience levels. For children who do not yet understand how to play chess, a beginners class is offered at 1:00 p.m. at the World Chess Hall of Fame across the street by a CCSCSL staff member. At the same time, for children who understand how to play the game, basic strategy is taught during the Chess for Rookies class at the Kingside Diner. Chess for Knights is held at 2:00 p.m led by the resident grandmaster. Children who are more advanced find this class to be perfect in helping them amass knowledge to apply during tournaments.
Opportunities to learn chess are unlimited at the CCSCSL. Our Sunday classes are one of the most popular and well-attended classes which expands the world of chess to children.
