A good chess player can learn from his mistakes and from other players. Try and get the game under control fast. Protect your pieces because you don't know when you're going to need them. I was really bad. But I kept practicing and that's how I got really good.
Students even come to chess club from private elementary schools without clubs of their own.
Near the aquarium third-grader Jamil Edwards is helping a new student, T.J. Roberts, learn the game. These can only move two spaces, he says holding up a pawn. Two or one. He holds up each piece in succession. Kings can only move one and he can only catch somebody if he s close.