local clubs

Chess players active at chess dot com might be interested in using meetup dot com to promote the local chess club. Today I notice there are 74 chess meetup groups in 59 cities in 4 countries, mostly U.S. Just over 4600 people are listed at meetup dot com as active in their chess club, and about 4750 more are listed as being interested in joining a chess club.

Anyone using meetup dot com to promote their group pays $12/mo for the service. One nice thing there is that the organizer can then post at the meetup dot com chess group a link to chess dot com.

Some of the people playing OTB at the local chess club will not have heard of chess dot com. It seems to me we're just the ones to tell them about it.