Chess Club

Chess club takes place after school every Tuesday and it's for everyone, from beginners to experts. 

You can also come along and play chess at break and lunchtimes but onTuesdays after school Mr Deplechin will be there to help you improve at the game.

Every Chess master was once a beginner.  -  Irving Chernev

Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.  -  Anatoly Karpov

Excelling at chess has long been considered a symbol of more general intelligence. That is an incorrect assumption in my view, as pleasant as it might be.  -  Garry Kasparov

Without error there can be no brilliancy.  -  Emanuel Lasker

COME ON! don't be afraid!! - Yann Deplechin

Chess is a sport. A violent sport.  -  Marcel Duchamp

Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.  -  Blaise Pascal

Win with grace, lose with dignity!  -  Susan Polgar

Don't even mention losing to me. I can't stand to think of it.  -  Bobby Fischer

That's what chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one.  -  Bobby Fischer

Chess can help a child develop logical thinking, decision making, reasoning, and pattern recognition skills, which in turn can help math and verbal skills.  -  Susan Polgar

Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when in you're trouble.  -  Stanley Kubrick