Want to come play chess, to meet new people, and to improve your chess game. Or, to learn Wisconsin card games like cribbage, euchre, or sheepshead. Then feel free to join the Greendale Chess club which meets most Wednesdays November through April starting after school until around 4 pm.
The club adviser is Jeff Dederich and he invites everyone to join.
“You just showed up! If you bring a friend, you grab a chessboard and just start playing. Its super casual,” Dederich said.
Chess is a board game for two players, played on a square board with 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid. The two players are assigned a color either black or white, each controlling sixteen pieces consisting of: one king, one queen, two rooks, two bishops, two knights, and eight pawns each piece has a different type of movement.
Players can seek improvement from a local chess master that comes often. An enemy piece may be captured by moving one’s own piece onto the square it occupies. The object of the game is to “checkmate” the enemy king but there are also several ways the game can end in a draw.
Sometimes Dederich invites a chessmaster to watch the players play.
“He [Chess master] tells me all of the mistakes I made and what plays I should have made instead,” junior Harry Walters said.
Any student that isn’t already involved in activities at the school should come to join the chess club because it’s a chill fun laid back time.
“I enjoy the chess club because it presents a more casual opportunity to engage with peers constructively, playing games that challenge the brain and allow people to connect over a common interest,” senior Noah Thomson said.
Students can work around a flexible schedule since the Chess Club begins after the end of the fall sports season and meets once a week until the beginning of the spring sports season. Based on student availability, students can play chess with their friends or new people in order to have fun or to improve their skills.
“I like friendly competition without competitiveness, and overall just improvement,” Walters said.
Dederich and members of the club welcome everybody into the club and hope everybody will join. Even if you don’t play chess you can still come have some fun and chill out at the club.
