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.
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.
The always popular Thursday Chess Deals from Wholesale Chess will begin again today, January 6. (The deals have been on hold through the holiday season.)
We know you have been anxious for us to start these up again. Although you will never know ahead what the deals will be, you will always get a true bargain.
Some of the items offered at huge savings last year included Fritz 12, several types of chess clocks, tournament chess sets, wood chess sets, chess pieces and chess boards, chess software and chess books, and chess tournament supplies. These same types of great chess items will be available this year. Although Chess Deals will change from week to week, the savings will always be significant.
These deals are available only for orders placed online on that Thursday. (12:00 am to 11:59 pm Pacific Time). Each customer may only buy one of each deal, but can buy both deals for that day. In order to only send notification to those who want it, you must sign up for the emails of the Thursday Chess Deals. You can do that in our free membership. You can also find the deals on our homepage each Thursday at www.wholesalechess.com
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.
Not much time left to get that chess set, chess board, or chess supplies you need for Christmas. But we can help. For the next two days we will pay half your expedited shipping costs. If Santa snoozes–you loose!
Yes, it’s true, like Christmas, our chess Deals of the Day will be gone at the end of this week. 
Today you can still take advantage and get our Deluxe Walnut Folding Wood Chess Board with 2″ Squares at a super discount—50% off retail. It can handle a set of wood chess pieces with a king base of up to 1 ¾ inches. This beautiful folding chess board is made by Rechapados Ferrer, the leading chess board manufacturer in the world.
If you have fancied a nice Mousepad Chess Board this Deal of the Day is for you.
Our 22 inch Large Mousepad Chess Board is on sale today for 50% off. These are a little larger than our regular mousepad boards and will accommodate our Première Plastic Chess Pieces if you lucked-out and picked up a set of those chess pieces
when they were on sale earlier in the month. You can get one–or one in each color if you like. No restrictions on quantity. Enjoy!
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