Why Give?
It is through your help that can enable us to sponsor local tournaments, simultaneous exhibitions, and youth chess education in Pittsburgh and the surrounding area.
Make a Difference
We have brought chess to schools because we believe it directly contributes to academic performance. In particular, educational research confirms that chess helps with focusing, visualizing, thinking ahead, weighing options, concrete analysis, abstract thinking, planning, and multitasking.
Thank you!
The Pittsburgh Chess Club is grateful for all of the generous donations from individuals, organizations, and businesses over the years. We would like to acknowledge the 2019 – 2020 donors by listing their names below. If your name is missing, please contact us.
$500 – $999
- United Health
- Jeff Schreiber‡
$250 – $499
- E. Tomlinson Fort
- Mark Jeromin
$100 – $249
- Jeff Schreiber‡
- Jeff Schreiber‡
- Izzy Isaacson
$50 – $99
- Finn Overlie
$25 – $49
- Jeff Schreiber‡
$5 – $24
* Donations that were made on behalf of the listed donor.
† Donations that were made in honor of the listed donor.
‡ Donations that were made in memory of the listed donor.
Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment..
The game of chess is not merely an idle amusement. Several very valuable qualities of the mind, useful in the course of human life, are to be acquired or strengthened by it… Life is a kind of Chess, in which we have often points to gain, and competitors or adversaries to contend with.
Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.