Chess Club
August 13, 2026 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
$30.00
We teach:
- Fun! Enjoying the game and the social side of chess.
- The basics: rules, the board, piece movements, check, checkmate and stalemate.
- Tactics and Combinations: how to win pieces and checkmate!
- Openings, Middle game and Endings: where your pieces go and when and why they go there.
- Official tournament play: Get involved in the wider chess world through unrated USCF rated play.
What our students learn:
- Respect: We go into every game with a winning attitude and come out with a winning attitude.
- Leadership: motivating yourself, assisting others, and providing a positive role model; chess will teach leadership skills to last throughout life.
- Evaluation: chess develops the skills needed to break down large. problems into manageable parts and to address each part in turn.
- Values: chess teaches confidence, creativity, and patience.
Dates: Year round
Days: Tuesdays and Thursdays
Times: 6:00-7:30 PM
Instructor: Paul Mechem
Age: Kindergarten – Adult (beginner to expert)
Cost: $30 per month
Class size: Limit of 20
To make things simpler for you, we are working on offering recurring payments. The feature should be in place in the next couple of months. Currently you will have to come back and resign up for each month. You can pay for a couple months at a time if you wish, please notate that on your order. We’re working to make this as easy as possible!
Location: 3rd floor auditorium
Instructor: Paul Mechem. Paul is a United States Chess Federation rated Expert. He has more than 25 years of chess experience teaching students of all ages. Having previously worked as a therapeutic youth counselor and foster care/adoption social worker in Illinois as well as with adults with disabilities in St. Louis, Paul now teaches chess professionally in Missouri and Illinois.
*All participants must have an active Leu membership to participate in classes. Family memberships cost $50 for the whole year! Individual memberships (age 15+) only cost $35 for the whole year!
**You may attend one free trial class without a Leu membership.