Greater Peoria Chess Foundation
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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.
Kingsmen are now meeting Monday Night at Hardees
The Kingsmen Chess Club will resume our Monday night meetings June 12th at the Hardees in the Willows Knolls shopping center at 7pm as usual. This is a temporary site, we are working to find another permanent site since the Pizza Works has decided to close on Mondays. Many other restaurants in the Peoria area have been closing on Mondays for some time. Hardees is not a good long term solution as it closes early. Kingsmen met at Hardees previously a few years ago, but moved when we found the Life Togerther Center. Please continue to watch this space for further updates.Peoria Chess Time Line
1937
15 year old Dean Lybarger joins the Kingsmen Chess Club. This is the earliest we know of the Kingsmen.
GM George Koltanowski gives a simultaneous exhibition at the Kingsmen Chess Club.
1938
1943
Peoria Industrial Chess League formed by Art Hartwig, Hank Cramer & Jess Anderson.
US Open held in Peoria. Organized by Art Hartwig.
1945
This is an on-going project that may take some time to complete. Please let us know if we've left anything out as we go along.