Chess

The Chess Club is a place for chess players of all standards to meet. We provide equipment and balanced opponents whether you are beginner, intermediate or top level player. Join us for casual play at our weekly club nights to practice, improve, and enjoy an environment in which players can learn from one another and analyse games. Or just enjoy some casual chess with friends and a drink. Players are also given the opportunity to play competitively. We run competitive opportunities within the club such as our comp nights on Mondays. These allow players to gain experience of competitive chess over the board and players are given the opportunity to play Monday nights as rated or unrated games. In addition to comp nights, we have 3 teams playing in the Southampton Chess League and we encourage keen players to get involved and join a team suited to their chess ability. We also enjoy entering external tournaments including the Hampshire Chess Congress and British Universities Chess Championship. So, come along to our Thursday casual chess nights, Monday competitive nights and our planned socials. Our club nights take place on Thursday evenings in Below Deck on the bottom floor of the SUSU building and the venues and timings of our comp nights and socials are announced on our Discord. Previous socials include pub crawls, bowling, quizzes, friendly games with other universities and much more! The committee members are always happy to help or answer any queries or uncertainties prior to or at our meet-ups.