Forest Grove Chess Club

05/18/2026

Chess club is at the FG library tomorrow at 4:00! See you there!

05/12/2026

NO CHESS CLUB TODAY! The Forest Grove library is having its book sale, so we will resume next week. 

05/09/2026

Chess is both a fantastic game and a fantastic tool for learning how to overcome adversity. Because it is so complicated, we fail at it over and over again. But when we keep trying, we get stronger. Our resilience increases and our tolerance for pain and discomfort grows.

Judit Polgar gave an interview to Forbes magazine talking about how the ease, convenience, and even the tone of AI chat bots is harming the upcoming generation because it is robbing them of these opportunities.

"We need rejection," Polgar said. "We need people to say, 'That's a really bad idea,' or, 'Have you thought about it from this point of view?'"

Her concern is structural. A generation interacting heavily with AI engineered to validate them, may grow up with an underdeveloped tolerance for being wrong, being challenged, or sitting with discomfort. OpenAI rolled back a GPT-4o update in April 2025 specifically because the model had become, in its own words, "overly flattering or agreeable." The fix is partial. The underlying incentive to make the user feel good, is not going away.

For Polgar, this matters because failure isn't a glitch in learning. It's the substance of it.

"No matter how harsh life is on you, you fail in an exam, something happens very differently than you planned. Trust me, you suffer, you cry, it's painful. But it's the process. It's part of it. And actually, because it's part of it, when you do something which is a very big achievement, it tastes 10 times better after the setback you had."

Judit Polgar survived chess's AI revolution. Now the Queen of Chess star has an unsparing warning for schools walking into the same trap with ChatGPT

04/20/2026

Join us for chess club tomorrow at the FG library, 4:00-5:30!

04/07/2026

Join us at chess club, Tuesday at 4-530 at the FG library!

03/29/2026

Chess club on Tuesday at 4:00! We’ll be at the FG library and hope to see you there. All ages and abilities welcome!

03/28/2026

A larger group (for example, men in chess) will have more outliers at the top end than a smaller group with the same distribution (for example, women in chess). A Harvard/Boston University study of USCF participation found that men and women had the same distribution in ratings but that men had higher performers because there were so many more of them.

03/17/2026

Chess club today at 4:00! See you at the FG library!

03/02/2026

Library chess club tomorrow (Tuesday) at 4:00! See you there!

02/15/2026

Chess club this Tuesday at 4! As always, we meet at the FG library and welcome all players, adults and children, experts and noobs.

And for tournament-goers, this will be our last meeting before the Saturday tournament so come and get a in few reps to prepare!