Greater Peoria Chess Foundation
The Greater Peoria Chess Foundation is a 501(c)3 non profit organization dedicated to encouraging chess in our community and school systems. Chess helps students to develop many life skills that will help them as they navigate with challenges that lay ahead.
Scholastic Chess Scholarship Tour The 2024-25 school schedule features our new Grand Prix Chess Tour program that offers scholarships for some lucky players to attend the USCF K-8 Championships in Bloomington or the Nationals in Orlando, Florida at the end of the chess season. Learn how you can paticipate and perhaps win a trip to the Nationals at Orlando, Click ==> here <== and get all the details.
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Skills you learn from playing Chess
- Logical Thinking
- Problem Solving
- Goal Setting
- Self Motivation
- Actions have Consequences
- Hard Work is Rewarded
- Builds Self-confidence
- Mental Alertness
- Memory Development
- Patience
- Focus
- Learning to Look for Patterns
- Improved Schoolwork
- Better Grades
World Economic Forum’s latest job skill forecast for 2025 predicts that the most important skills will include analytical thinking, complex problem-solving, and emotional intelligence.
9 Reasons Why Your Child Should Play Chess
A more complete summary of the benefits of chess can be found Here.
GPCF Receives PPS Community Contribution Award
Peoria Public Schools awarded the 2017-18 Community Contribution Award to the Greater Peoria Chess Foundation at their June 11, 2018 Board meeting. GPCF provided chess sets and training software to PPS schools and supported a chess tournament at Von Steuben Middle School since 2017. Planned for this school year are more tournaments and a program to provide low cost US Chess memberships to students.
Aphorisms
Visit the Chess Underground
podcast with Pete Karagianis
Pete Karagianis Named US Chess Assistant Director of Events
Peoria's own Pete Karagianis has been named US Chess Assistant Director of Events.
"Pete’s calm demeanor, high energy and capable articulation will be valuable assets. He looks forward to sharing his vision of a quality event – a vision born from both his passion for the game and his wealth of experience within US Chess. We are happy to have him as part of our team." - US Chess.
Hult Online Play
The Hult Youth Chess Club (K-12) will meet online every Friday night at 6:30 on Zoom with a 7pm tournament on chess.com. You can join us by using these links:
Friday November 15th 2024
6:30 pm: Zoom Meeting 147 555 122
7:00 pm: Hult Chess Club @chess.com tournament 5224697 .
Registration starts at 6pm, but the games won't start until 7pm on Friday.
See you online soon!
The Kingsmen Monday night adult chess club meets at the Hardees in Willow Knolls Shoping mall, 7 to 11pm.
Services:
Our school program consists of providing sets & boards to schools which have an active chess club or chess team which meets regularly and competes with other schools. We provide teaching chess software which can be used either with teacher instruction or placed on a computer so that students can do self learning. We also provide a curricula, complete with instructor's notes and integrated with the software so that teachers, who are not chess players, can provide beginning teaching of the game to their students. This year we have added USCF membership discounts for students who participate in organized chess competitions. All of these are free to the schools, they only need to have an active club and request the materials.
For schools that are already active we can also help provide coordination with other schools as well as a schedule of tournaments for your student's participation.
We also offer a summer chess camp, workshops, and the Friday night Hult Youth Chess Club. If your group has a particular need please let us know and we will see how we can help.