We are excited to announce our next McMinnville Chess Tournament on Saturday, May 16th, 2026, from 9am-5pm. Join us! We will have USCF-rated and -unrated sections for both Scholastic Youth and Adults. If you’d like to learn more about our last tournament, including tournament results, photos, and sponsor details, check out our article, A…
McMinnville Chess Club will include an in-house tournament on October 22nd, and, of course, free, open play as usual for those not in the tournament. Details: Games will start promptly at 5:45pm on Wednesday night. We will start on time so we can finish up before Mac Market closes. BYOB (bring your own board!)…
For our youth members and attendees, meeting and playing other youth players is a great way to have fun, make new friends, and enjoy the game that we love — but what if their friends aren’t there and there’s no one they want to play? To foster our youth members’ immediate sense of ease…
Editor’s note: This article appeared in the July, 2025 issue of NW Chess magazine. It has been since been updated with our current club meeting schedule, a mention of Memorial Elementary School’s new chess club, and the names and links to several of our attendees’ USCF profiles. At the Evergreen Museum this month, our…
Several of our club members, youth and adults alike, are always up for attending and sometimes need a ride to chess club. With this in mind, our carpool committee is excited to announce the McMinnville Chess Club Rides group chat, a new way to help our members get to and from chess club. Carpooling is a…
First Federal Savings & Loan has reached out to us to let us know the McMinnville Chess Club is eligible for their annual Customer Ballot community grant, a program that since 1999 has allocated over $1m for organizations specializing in youth development, animal shelters, and more. One of the great things about this program…
The McMinnville Chess Club humbly offers the McMinnville Chess Library, a growing collection of curated books, magazines, and equipment for our members to use in their study and enjoyment of the game we love. These resources are excellently suited for: • Birthday parties• Schools and youth programs• Neighboring chess clubs• Chess instructors starting their careers Borrow any…
I’m excited to share that our fundraiser for Duniway Middle School‘s chess club has been a success, and our community has raised funds for our goal of 10 professional, high-quality chess sets. That’s enough chess sets for 20 students and their instructors! Mike Terrill, director of the Duniway Chess Club, at the McMinnville Chess…
Duniway Middle School’s Chess Club starts this month and needs your help! Our friend and club member, Mike Terrill, is running the chess program at Duniway, and they need chess sets! He’s requested help getting a minimum of 6 sets and a max of 10. This is a great opportunity for helping more youth…
Did you know that if you have a free gym membership with your health insurance that you can get a free US Chess membership, as well? The United States Chess Federation has started reaching out to clubs like ours with a novel way to sign people up for US Chess: Check out if Grouper…