Here is your typical weekly calendar for places to play social chess clubs/meetups in London. In general just turn up and you will find chess equipment and other players for casual games. If a café or pub is the venue, your custom will be appreciated.
Before visiting it is worth checking for latest information on websites and any associated social media. You may also find details there of tournaments.
If you know of any more meetups or spot changes please let me know! Email contact@colchesster.org.uk
Monday
2.00pm to 6.00pm, ‘Say it with your chess’ club, Tropics68, CR7 7JA
From 7.30pm, London Chess Community, The Lauriston, E9 7JN
Tuesday
4.30pm to 7.30pm, Streatham & Brixton Chess Club, Streatham Library, SW16 1PN*
From 7pm, Kings Head Chess Club, The Kings Head Public House, W2 4AH.
Wednesday
From 6pm, London Chess Community, The Thornhill Arms, N1 9RD
6pm to 9.30pm, FourCorner Club, Granary Square, N1C 4BH
6.30pm to 11pm ‘Chess Night’ Reference Point 2 Arundel Street, WC2R 3DA
7pm to 9pm Dom’s Chess Club, The Lord Tredegar, E3 5AL
Thursday6pm to 8pm, “Chess n Chill” Old Spitalfields Market, near Liverpool Street (from 24 April 2025 to end of September) There will be a Chess in Schools and Communities tutor there to offer some coaching tips, E1 6EW
From 6pm, London Chess Club, Frequency Coffee Angel, N1 8EA
From 7pm, Tooting Chess Club, Graveney and Meadow, SW17 9NA
Friday
6pm to 10pm London Chess Community, Coffee Zee Holloway N7 6NE
7pm to 8.30pm (not every week), ‘Chess and Live Music in Wimbledon’ London Chess Club, (search for venue etc and read conditions)
Last Friday of every month, friendly blitz (or other format) tournament, Kings Head Chess Club, the Carpenters Arms, W1H 7NE
Saturday
Noon to 3.30pm, FourCorner Club, St. John’s Square, Farringdon, EC1V 4JB
2pm to 6pm, ‘Chess & Chats’ London Women Chess Club, Old Diorama Arts Centre, Regent’s Place, 201 Drummond St, London NW1 3FEIn the summer months, Greenwich Peninsula Chess, sessions at the “Seafood Disco” Table, near the Jetty, off Olympic Way, SE10 0GE
Sunday
10am to 4pm, London Chess Club/London Knight Club, (former used to meet at Mercato Metropolitano, SE1 6DR), MMy, 1 Walworth Square (entrance on Walworth Road opposite Kwik Fit), SE17 1RW
Noon, to 5pm Greenwich Peninsula Chess, Colab Tower 22 Southwark Bridge Road SE1 9HS (corner of Southwark Bridge Road and Park Street)
Links:
- Chess n Chill https://oldspitalfieldsmarket.com/events/chess-n-chill
- Dom’s Chess Club https://www.instagram.com/p/CnR_-_WIEEn/?hl=en
- Four Corner Club https://www.fourcorner.club/
- Greenwich Peninsula Chess https://gpchess.com/
- Kings Head Chess Club https://www.khcc.org.uk/
- London Chess Club @london_chess_club on Instagram
- London Knight Club https://www.facebook.com/groups/londonknightclub/
- London Chess Community https://www.instagram.com/londonchesscommunity/
- London Women Chess Club https://www.londonwomenchess.org.uk/
- Reference Point https://www.reference-point.uk/whats-on/hockney
- Streatham & Brixton Chess Club https://streathamchess.org/
- Tooting Chess Club (18+ only) https://www.instagram.com/tootingchessclub/
- Tropics68 https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61563466685014 (see events)
*Note: The Streatham & Brixton and Kings Head clubs (see Tuesday) mainly play league chess but also offer social chess. To locate league clubs generally, the English Chess Federation provides search and interactive maps at https://www.englishchess.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/ECF-Club-Finder.html