Our Upcoming Events

We will host a general interest orientation of chess. We hope to see you there!! 

We will be at the Forest Public Library from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. 

If you can't make it to the library that morning, we will be at Penn's Restaurant in Forest providing the same service at 2 p.m.

Come play/learn the game of chess with us! 

We will participate in the Friends of Roosevelt annual Independence Day celebration all day on Friday, July 4, at Roosevelt State Park. Visit our tent and learn about the game of chess and play with us! 

We will have our regular meeting on Saturday, July 5, from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the Forest Public Library. Come play/learn the game of chess with us! 

We will have our regular meeting on Saturday, August 2, from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the Forest Public Library. Come play/learn the game of chess with us! 

We will host our second annual speed chess tournament at Penn's Restaurant in Forest. This will include Quick and Blitz chess games.  

Skip down below to see what special events we have held in recent months

The event unfortunately did not go as planned. It was postponed one week from its original date due to weather. It appeared that Mother Nature was not finished as the rains returned. The event was held as re-scheduled anyway, but the usual crowd did not appear. Combined with challenges from the additional rain, our effectiveness in promoting chess was diminished. 

We will return to the annual LakeFest community festival next year, hoping for a better experience on the grounds of the Old Depot in Lake to promote the game of Chess.  

We had a great experience hosting our 4th spring tournament. We had 38 players participating in the tournament held annually at Roosevelt State Park in Morton. Players from across Mississippi and one from Alabama participated. It was a beautiful day with great weather and wonderful support from the community.

We visited the Winona Rotary Club and presented a program about chess and its growth in Mississippi. The meeting was well attended and good questions were asked at the end. Incidentally, this is also the hometown of our founder.

We visited Noxubee County upon invitation again to provide a one day chess camp for kids and their parents seeking to learn how to play chess. It was a good turnout of about 20-30 youth and adults. Plans are already in place to return next year. We first visited them in 2023 when they started their chess program.

We hosted our 4th annual Roosevelt Chess Classic which attracted our highest turnout in our history with 75 players including 10 teams. We had players from across Mississippi and one from Alabama and an international master from New York.

We hosted our 2nd annual Randy Richardson Memorial Chess Camp for children to learn Chess at the Forest Public Library.  We had a great turnout and more details will be posted at a later time. 

This was also National Chess Day in America. 

We had a booth at the 2024 Wing Dang Doodle Festival at Gaddis Park in Forest to promote the game of Chess. We had an information display and boards set up for people to play the game. We also had a great experience in 2002 and 2023. We had a good number of visitors, some played a few games and we signed up a few for the chess camp and club membership. We look forward to next year for  another wonderful opportunity to introduce chess to more people in our community.

We successfully completed our newest tournament that kicked off a new series that features Quick and Blitz chess action. We had 15 registrations for players who met at Penn's restaurant in Forest. 

The overall tournament included a Quick session of 5 Swiss rounds in the morning into early afternoon with a time control of 15+3. The Blitz session of 6 Swiss rounds in the afternoon had a time control of 5+3. Prizes were awarded to first and second place in two sections of each session - Open and U1000.

We made our first appearance at the Independence Day celebration at Roosevelt State Park where we had a booth set up to distribute information and provided people a chance to play Chess. 

It was a very hot day, but a good crowd. The event officially began at 2 p.m. and from about 2:30 on, we had a steady flow of kids stopping by our booth to play Chess. They were excited about the opportunity to play and ask questions.

The skill levels ranged from very beginner to relatively experienced. We taught a few who played for the first time and others who knew what they were doing. One kid who started out as an absolute newcomer kept coming back with his friends and got better as the day went along.

The day culminated with two teens, girl and boy, who started a game around 7 p.m. and kept playing until it was too dark to see much. The game went about an hour and just after someone provided a portable light, she achieved checkmate sometime after 8 p.m. 

Thank you to everyone who participated. It was a fun day for Chess in Scott County.

We made our fourth appearance on "Good Things with Rebecca Turner" on the SuperTalk Mississippi radio network. The show airs Mondays through Fridays from 2 until 3 p.m. This time, we were joined with co-guest Douglas Stewart, 4-time former state chess champion and treasurer and board member of the Mississippi Chess Association.  The primary topic was growth of chess in Mississippi. 

For more information about our past appearances, CLICK HERE.  

We had a booth at the annual LakeFest community festival on the grounds of the Old Depot in Lake to promote the game of Chess. We had an excellent number of people stop at our tent and express interest in the game. Visitors played the game on site and ask questions. We taught the game to visitors ranging from kids to grandparents.

Our 3rd annual spring tournament was held at Roosevelt State Park. This was our sixth overall tournament to host. All of our tournaments have now attracted a combined attendance of 309 players.