In order to start a club at Arrowhead, an advisor is required; which is what the Chess Club was lacking. Therefore, Jennifer Passler, English teacher, agreed to become the chess club advisor allowing them to have a team this year.

Junior Erik Jiang reached out to all Arrowhead teachers via email, asking that one of them would become the advisor so the club could happen. 

Passler was “Immediately interested,” according to Jiang.

Chess club kicks off this year on November 4th. Practices will be in room N201. They are planning on meeting every other Thursday.  

Jiang says that any person can join.

He says, “We want anyone and everyone to join! It doesn’t matter what your skill level is, or even if you know how to play or not! If you don’t know how to even play chess, don’t worry we can teach you how.”

His instructions on how to join “Anyone can join by either showing up on the 4th and to our meetings, or by contacting either me, Mrs. Passler, or Nathan Klauck if you can’t make it to the meetings.”

Jiang would like to advertise the club by putting various posters up throughout the school.

He would like to keep the competition “internal.” Meaning an “in-school” competition. He wants to “make it easier on our members who are very busy.” 

The day-to-day schedule would be each member going up against the other. Winning means that your ranking goes up and losing means that it would lower. In the end, the top players would face off to be crowned “Chess Champion.”