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.
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.
What the club values
The Constitution names five, and they are not decoration — the Superior Grand Prix is built out of them.
- Fairness — you regularly meet opponents near your own strength. It is why the league is rating-seeded Quads and not one open swiss.
- Growth — improvement is celebrated at every level. It is why the season pays a Most Improved award, and why nine class champions take the largest single block of the prize fund.
- Sportsmanship — honesty, respect and humility, at the board and away from it.
- Community — friendships, mentorship and volunteering are what make strong players, not the other way round.
- Excellence — keep improving the league rather than settling at whatever works this season.
Contact and location
The quickest way to reach the club is email, or the contact form if you would rather type than open a mail app. Both land in the same place.
- Club night
- Thursdays, from 6:00 PM
- Where
- See this week
- Club membership
- Chess67 club page (opens Chess67)
Enquiries about volunteering, sponsorship, tournament and event ideas are all welcome!
An official US Chess affiliate
The club is a registered affiliate of the US Chess Federation, affiliate ID A4002919. That is the practical thing standing behind the word "rated" everywhere else on this site: every result goes to US Chess (opens uschess.org) under that ID, lands on your official record, and moves your Quick rating — win or lose.
Affiliation is about rating games and nothing more. The Superior Grand Prix remains the club's own competition and is not the official US Chess Grand Prix.
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: ContactUs@SuperiorChess.club.
Where we meet
The club is still trying rooms out around Superior, Colorado, so the venue is not fixed yet — what is fixed is the Thursday evening. Whoever is hosting us gives us the room and the food and drink, and that is a genuine part of why the evening works.
