Let's play chess!

If you are new to chess, we will teach you. If you are an experienced player you will increase your skills. We encourage our members to inspire others.

Join us. There is a place for everyone, home- private- or public-schooled.

Arcadia High School, Wed. 2:30
Arcadia Middle School, Thu. 2:30
Nandua High School, Thu. 2:30
Nandua Middle School, Tue. 2:30
Eastern Shore Comm. Coll., Wed. Noon-1 and 4-5
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More  clubs to come ...
​Volunteer and Coach/Mentor opportunities
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CONGRATULATIONS TO THE ARCADIA MS/HS 2023
OTB Tournament Winners
​May 19, 2023

​Sec 1: 1st, Rawlings Solis    2nd, Belarmino Escalante    3rd, Lexi Kelly
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Sec 2: 1st, Truitt Flowers    2nd, Porter Buyea    3rd, Thomas Watson

We're Growing
Public School Chess Clubs in Accomack County are sponsored by the Accomack County Public Schools District. This allows schools to provide trained staff supervision at club meetings and safe, school transportation for students to and from club activities. 

Why Should Kids Play Chess?

Improves problem solving ability

Teaches students how to make better decisions

Develops creativity

Encourages students to coach others

Demands sportsmanship

Nandua Middle School: Grade 7 students prepare for an in-class chess tournament. Fall 2018.

Community Support
About the Landsberger Foundation

Community Support
​Eastern Shore Scholastic Chess, Inc.

The Landsberger Foundation, Inc., (LFI) is a 501(c)(3) corporation, one mission of which is supporting chess programs in under-served areas. Eastern Shore Scholastic Chess, Inc., is a project of LFI, the goal of which is to establish a sustainable program of scholastic chess in this region. LFI provides essential seed-money investment to the ACPS program and to the Community chess clubs.

Eastern Shore Scholastic Chess is working with ACPS to establish chess programs in each school in Accomack County .  ACPS recognizes the academic and social benefits of chess to the student, and the consistency of the life-skills learned in chess with both STEM and Virginia Employment Readiness Skills educational objectives.  A curriculum has been developed by ESSC, based on the proven Chesskid.com system of incremental mastery of skills, augmented with teaching aids both borrowed from other successful programs and developed internally.  This provides a consistent program across schools, and in the community clubs, which is easily learned by coaches.  In our area, distant from other chess programs, both local interscholastic competitions and on-line competitions with schools and individual students from around the world become possible for the first time.