News & Updates
We are happy to introduce our Tournament Staunton Chess Pieces, the newest addition to the Wholesale Chess family. These pieces are a beautiful, full-sized chess piece that are great for a variety of chess games!
Here are some of the great features you’ll find with our new chess pieces:
- High-End Look at an affordable price!
- Tournament-weighted plastic chess pieces
- Currently available in ivory and natural finishes, but available soon in other colors
- 3 3/4″ King
- 1 3/4″ King Base
- Each set comes with extra queens
- Drawstring bag included
These pieces are a great deal! Be sure to get your set today, and don’t forget a matching chess board!
Buy The Tournament Staunton Chess Pieces Here
Recently, we were made aware of something interesting going on in India. The program is called D.A.A.N. (or Development Action Awareness Nationwide). The program was introduced to help out a few select areas in India. As part of the program, Irinette brought in some chess supplies to help teach the game to kids. As you can see by the article, chess was a huge hit! We are proud to be a part of this. You can read more by visiting the D.A.A.N. Blog. Click Here.
The Thursday Deal of the Day is sure to please traditional chess players who like that feel of nice wood chess pieces against a wood chess board. Nothing quite like it–is there!
We are offering our American Staunton Wood Pieces in ebonized hardwood. The king stands 3 3/4 inches tall with a 1 5/8 inch base. The knight has the traditional raised head–ears laid back, teeth bared and nostrils flared–ready to do battle! This set—today only—is $42.49, half the regular MSRP. If you have been waiting for a nice wood set, now is the time.
You can also choose a compete wood set, The Kramnik Chess Gift Box. This boxed set features weighted Golden Sheesham Chess Pieces with Drawstring Bag (featuring a 3.5″ King), a folding wood Walnut & Maple Chess Board, a DGT Easy Plus Clock and a special CD featuring 120 games by the World Champion Kramnik, all in an attractive gift box. The MSRP is $154.99. Our regular everyday low price is $99.99. But today only you can get this fine set for just $63.99—an amazing value.
Today only, (January 27,) you will find our Quality Chess Pieces 
and Basic Chess Boards on sale at a huge discount. (You can get 
5 of each.) Go to our Homepage and then click through on our Thursday Chess Deals to take advantage of today’s bargains. Even with this huge discount, you can still apply our shipping specials.
This Thursday only, get a beautiful set of American Staunton Wood Chess Pieces with a 3 ¾ inch king in Sheesham. It’s not only a striking chess set, but is a bargain for the price. You can save $21 of the retail price of $59.99 Thursday Deal: Only $38.99!
You can also get the great chess book “Fearsome Four Pawns Attack” by Jerry Konikowski is one of the most prolific chess authors in the world and holds the FIDE title of Master. The retail price of this chess book is $24.95. Today only you can it for the unheard of price of just $8.99
Go to the home page and click on the link to get either—or both—of today’s chess deals.
Wow, it’s Thursday again already. This year will fly by just like 2010 did. Our WSC Thursday Deal of the Day is our large 22″ MousePad Board in Forest Green for just $5.99 and our WSC Premier Tournament Chess Bag (the biggest one) in Green for just $10.59 You can buy one or both deals and still take advantage of any shipping specials we have.
This article, written by the manager of Wholesale Chess, was first published in The Link Homeschool Publications (Copyright, 2009). Reprinted by permission.
You see the benefits of chess and want to teach them to a child. You don’t have to be afraid of not knowing what to do or how to play. There are plenty of resources to help you.
“Remember that you are passing on a wonderful gift to them,” Mrs. Graham, manager of Wholesale Chess said. “Learn or renew your skills right along with them. Make sure you use care, patience and respect while teaching. Also, try to be interesting! Use humor, funny voices, cartwheels — whatever it takes to make your chess students pay attention and have a good time.”
Mrs. Graham suggests each child have their own chess set. It doesn’t have to be fancy or expensive. Most students use a roll-up vinyl board, plastic chess pieces, either weighted or not, and an inexpensive chess bag for chess pieces to be carried in.
“Wholesale Chess has a very basic chess curriculum that we recommend to work with beginners,” she said. Only move to the next step when you know your child has a real understanding of what you have already taught.
- How the pieces move and how to setup the board
- How to capture pieces
- Check and checkmate
- More advanced rules of castling, en passant, and pawn promotion
- The values of the pieces and making good captures and trades
- Developing your pieces and controlling the center
- Using multiple pieces to attack and defend
- Basic tactics – forks and pins
- Basic strategies – controlling squares, diagonals, and files
- Basic opening principles – control key squares, activate your pieces, get your king to safety
To be a good chess parent, teacher or chess coach you must be sure to get plenty of feedback from the student, Mrs. Graham said. “Make sure you know how your children feel about chess. If they are feeling burned out, then pressuring them may just turn them off more. If they are hungry for chess and you are not feeding that, they may become frustrated.
“If you have a child who enjoys learning and playing chess, you should encourage that as much as is healthy,” she said. “Chess has great social and intellectual benefits that can affect other aspects of life, but remember that chess is a part of life, not the purpose of life. I suggest chess parents watch or read Searching for Bobby Fischer with their child. “It is a great story. We also recommend the book, Survival Guide for Chess Parents.
“Another important thing, perhaps the most important, is to always make sure that your child knows how much you love them regardless of whether they are winning or losing their chess games,” she added. “Never show disappointment at their performance — they are most likely frustrated enough on their own!”
“Chess will certainly grow in the future,” she said. “Players will have to be more accurate in play, as chess computers and training becomes more and more available. But most of us hope that the essence and fun of the game doesn’t change at all!”
WSC Note: Our Book Category has a selection of books designed for parents or chess coaches to use as well as books for children who are beginnnig to play chess to read.
We will be closed over the holiday weekend (of course the website is up 24-7.) We appreciate all of our customers and truly do wish you a very Merry Christmas today.
We at Wholesale Chess hope this day of days brings you all you hope for in peace and joy (and a little turkey or ham, too!)
One of our Israeli customers once said he hoped the time would come that all 
of our battles would be fought over a chess board. That thought touched us. I suppose if we could give you just one gift, that’s what it would be–that all your life battles would be played-out over a chess board.
We will be closed over the holiday weekend (of course the website is up 24-7.) We appreciate all of our customers and truly do wish you a very Merry Christmas today.
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