About the club
A community chess club in Superior, Colorado, founded in 2026, meeting every Thursday evening in one room with two things happening in it.
Who runs it
I'm Chuck Price and I've lived in Superior for 27 years. My high school sweetheart, Traci, and I grew up in Georgia but married in our backyard right here in Superior and have raised four amazing children in this wonderful community while I worked as a tech exec and entrepreneur.
I'm a new US Chess Club Tournament Director, which means I'm able to run US Chess Federation (USCF) rated events. I'm also a late blooming Chess Adult Improver — someone who took the game up seriously as an adult and is still working to get better at it. I mention that because it's a core idea behind this club and the types of events we will endeavor to support. If you think chess clubs are rooms full of people who are brilliant and already great at chess, you would be wrong about at least one of us!
In chess there's a saying about playing: "You either win, or you learn." Since most USCF chess tournaments tend to run in a format that uses "Swiss Pairings", the highest rated players naturally gravitate toward the top of the tournament leaderboard to win their "Section". This leaves a lower rated blunder-master like myself "learning" a lot! While I certainly love learning, I find that playing with players closer to my skill level provides more enjoyment — not just the "winning" part, but actually having an equally matched, well-earned win on occasion!
So, my entrepreneurial tendencies kicked in and I couldn't stop thinking about how one might create a competitive environment where every player had an equal opportunity to win in an officially USCF rated tournament, not just the "Masters" of the game. Where might average players go, and what might be the mechanisms, that would enable them to enjoy competing with players around their same skill level and still have a chance to win and bring home prizes? Other major sports have something similar: Golf has the FedEx Cup; there's the Formula One Grand Prix! ...wait a minute... What about a "Grand Prix" for the average chess player?!
As it turns out, while there are actually TONS of great opportunities to learn, play, and compete in chess events in Colorado as a whole, there are actually very few opportunities to play weekly organized chess (especially USCF Rated games) in our wonderful community. Thus, the "Superior Chess Club" was born and along with it a new way to play in a seasonal USCF-rated tournament, with rounds played weekly, I'm calling the "Superior Grand Prix"!
I hope you'll bring your friends and families and join us on this journey, learning, and having fun winning along the way!
I'll look forward to seeing you over the board soon! ~Chuck Price
The club's mission
Set out in the club's Constitution: to promote the enjoyment of chess, to develop stronger players, to cultivate sportsmanship and integrity, to build an inclusive and welcoming chess community, and to provide competitive formats that reward improvement, consistency and participation.
What the club values
The Constitution names five values, and they are not decoration — the Superior Grand Prix is built out of them.
Fairness means competition structured so that players regularly meet opponents of similar strength; it is why the league is played in rating-seeded Quads rather than one open swiss where half the field is out of its depth by round two. Growth means improvement is celebrated at every level, on the view that every player is capable of being stronger than they were yesterday — which is why the season pays a Most Improved award alongside the overall title, and why nine class champions take the largest single block of the prize fund.
Sportsmanship is the expectation that members conduct themselves with honesty, respect, humility and professionalism, at the board and away from it. Community is the club's belief that friendships, mentorship and volunteering are what make strong players, not the other way round. And excellence is the commitment to keep improving the tournaments, the league and the experience of being a member, rather than settling at whatever works this season.
The club exists to prove that meaningful competition and a welcoming room are not opposing goals. That claim is on the last page of the Constitution, and the two-track Thursday is what it looks like in practice.
Contact and location
The quickest way to reach the club is email. There is no contact form here — a static site with a form needs a third-party service, and a club this size does not need one.
- Club night
- Thursdays, from 6:00 PM
- Address
- 1 Superior Drive, Superior, CO 80027
- Messages
- Chess67 club page (opens Chess67)
Enquiries about volunteering, sponsorship, or bringing a school group are all welcome at the same address.
The Stable Bar & Grill
1 Superior Drive, Downtown Superior, Colorado — inside the Blue Sport Stable building.
Open in Maps (opens Google Maps)
Sponsors
The prize fund comes entirely from entry fees. Local businesses willing to sponsor a season prize — a class title, or one of the recognition awards — would let the club pay out more than $5 a head can manage, and would be credited here and on the season pages.
If that is of interest: Events@SuperiorChess.club.
Our host
The club meets at The Stable Bar & Grill, 1 Superior Drive, Downtown Superior. They give us the room every Thursday, and the food and drink are a genuine part of why the evening works.