News & Updates
Today’s Deal of the Day is an outstanding chess set with our Maple and Walnut Chess Set with Storage. 
Retail on this great set is $149.99. Today only, you can order this for just $74.99 – plus get discounted shipping!
This chess set will make an excellent gift for a chess playing friend (or even better, for yourself.) Add a chess clock and you will be ready to go!
If Black Friday left you felling blue, we have something to cheer you up! Today only, Saturday, Nov. 27, you can save big on a Saitek Blue Competition Chess Clock. 
This chess timer retails for $39.95 but for just 24 hours you can get it for only $23.99. this is an outstanding deal so don’t delay. Tomorrow we will have another great deal, but it won’t be this great chess clock.
The Deal of the Day for Wed. Nov, 24 is our popular Executive Tournament Chess Set. MSRP $49.99. Deal of the Day prce is just $ $17.49 — 65% off! 
This complete chess set is a nicely weighted set with good size chess pieces. It has been a favoite of chess players for years. Since it comes with a Carryall Tournament Bag, which holds the pieces and a Vinyl Rollup Chess Board, you might also want to take a look at a chess clock. It will also fit nicely inside the bag. 
This Review was written by chess player Cub Noble for Wholesale Chess.
I needed a game clock for the scholastic tournaments that I play in. I wanted one that would be functional and digital for a decent price. The other game clocks that were digital were running for waaay out of my range and I found the DGT Easy Game Timer. The black is perfect for tournaments because it blends in to the board and bringing it together as one set, it is not too loud or obnoxious. It is the perfect size too for the bag that I have.
DGT Easy Game TImer Chess Clock
However if you want a clock with delay this is probably not the way to go. It is good for preset and creative time settings and its unique design always brings people to want to use it. I got the DGT Easy chess Timer just in time for a chess tournament and I found it works wonderfully. My opponents asked me where I got this clock because they wanted to get one just like it for their usage.
This clock is a lot better than a lot of the other chess clocks that I have used at scholastic tournaments mostly because it is light weight and durable, the screen is very easy to read, it is easily programmable. The DGT Easy Timer clock is different because instead of holding both sides of the buttons down to pause the time there is a button in the middle to pause it. Also the sound button is good for club and blitz play because it signals when you are running low on time, however, I don’t think I would recommend it for tournament play because it may annoy you or your opponent or the other games being played.
If you want to start it over you just need to press the power button again. I really like that feature because it enables you to change the time control if necessary by pushing the up button or handicap a player if you are playing someone stronger or weaker than you are. If you are in a blitz game, I don’t much care for the count up option that occurs when you run out of time however there is a flag that comes up to signal that the game ended on that side. There are 3 different features for this clock. I know I will be using this for years to come. I highly recommend this product for anybody who needs a good clock at a good price.
The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent the views of Wholesale Chess. We welcome open discussion on all aspects of chess on the Wholesale Chess Blog. If you would like to be a guest author on our blog, please contact us at marketing@wholesalechess.com.
From time to time Wholesale Chess customers have questions about how to operate the timing modes on their chess clock. In an effort to help everyone better understand how to get the most from their chess clocks, we’ve put together this list of popular chess clock timing modes and which chess clocks have these timing modes available. We have another article if you’re looking for more general instructions on how to use your chess clock. Please feel free to comment and add your thoughts and suggestions!
Popular Timing Modes
Sudden death – players must make a predetermined number of moves in a certain amount of time or forfeit immediately. A particularly popular variant in informal play is blitz chess, in which each player is given five minutes on the chess clock for the entire game. The players may take more or less time over any individual move. The opening moves in chess are often played quickly due to their familiarity, which leaves the players more time to consider more complex and unfamiliar positions later.
Simple delay – when it becomes a player’s turn to move, the clock waits for the delay period before starting to subtract from the player’s remaining time. For example, Read more �
Wholesale Chess Back to School Sale
While you’re kids may have been dreading it . . . you’ve been looking forward to it all year!
School is in!
The only thing better than the start of school is the start of this year’s Back to School Sale at Wholesale Chess. Look for three great things during this year’s Back to School sale, which ends on September 30.
1. Save up to 65%! We’ve discounted some of our top selling chess supplies from 10-65% off so you can spread those meager chess club funds a little farther this year. Simply visit our website and check out our sale items to see what’s available for the next week and a half.
2. Free Upgrade! For a limited time, we’re shipping our Basic Club Chess Set Combo with heavy pieces! No additional cost, no hassle . . . amazing heavy pieces at the basic combo price. Don’t miss out . . . this offer could end any day.
3. Shipping Specials. That’s what we’re famous for! Great shipping deals all the time. Pay only $3.99 to ship your order over $25 or more to the lower 48 states. That means you can get that chess clock you’ve always wanted and pay only $3.99 to ship it! Shipping is FREE if you order is over $100 and shipping to the lower 48 states.
Save $40 on Classic Wooden Chess Pieces
Elegant workmanship meets tournament standard. Don’t miss out on this deal – liable to sell out!
Wooden Chess Pieces
Save $20 on a Saitek Competition Pro Chess Clock
The best in Saitek chess clocks at a killer price! Don’t miss out on this great deal.
Saitek Chess Clock
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Part 2: Raising Interest and Promoting
Written by guest author Erik Czerwin for Wholesale Chess.
While you’re building that rapport with the kids, you’ve got to raise interest. It’s hard to recruit kids when they don’t know you exist. Have chess events as often as you can stand them. My first year, I attempted a tournament. The tournament didn’t go very smoothly (we didn’t even have a chess clock), but at the end, we had a life-size chess game. The two finalists competed using a real people chess set. I asked some popular seniors to create a massive paper chessboard in the school foyer. They recruited a 32 of their friends and parents to play the pieces. They made hats for bishops, crosses for kings, and had little toy horse-head things for the knights. As each piece was captured, the person slapped a whipped cream pie into the captured person’s face. Of course, the two finalists didn’t care about quality chess, they just captured a piece every turn they could. By the end, there was only one person who hadn’t been pied, and the others chased him around spraying him with whipped cream.
Though we didn’t play quality chess, that event made a big Read more �
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