Guildford Chess Club

Welcome to our world!


We aim to provide a safe and secure inclusive environment for all chess players to play and learn about chess.

We are one of the strongest chess clubs in the UK, with over 50 regular adult players and 100 juniors in membership, spanning the complete ability range from beginner to expert.

We currently field 20 teams across four leagues – the Surrey League, the Surrey Border League, the 4 Nations Chess League and the 4NCL Online. Some of our members also play for Surrey County teams and have represented England at both Junior and Senior levels.

Our regular club night is at 7.30pm on Mondays night for adults (earlier for juniors) from September to July at the Guildford Institute on Ward Street – we're closed in August and on Bank Holidays.

We encourage all our members to participate in the life of the club in some way.

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How the site works

Access to everything on the site is via the Navigation menu at the top of the page. Move the cursor over each item to reveal a drop-down menu with links to all the pages.

  • About – our constitution, contacts, gallery, history, library, membership, privacy policy, roll of honour, and safeguarding policy.

  • Activities – our calendar, coaching, junior club, league chess, and tournaments.

  • Directory – chess advice, games by club members, and links to the outside chess world.

And below on our home page, see our blog with all the latest news about the club.

It's easy to contact us. There's a contact form below for adults, and a contact form on our Juniors page for juniors.

Click on the club logo on the top left to return to the home page.

Latest news

25 March club night

Further success for Guildford teams in last night's matches, this time in the Surrey League. In Division 1, Guildford 1 beat Wimbledon 1 by 5.5–2.5. In Division 4, Guildford 4 beat Kingston 3 by 5–1. In both matches, the Guildford teams outrated their opponents by about 130 points a board.

Mike Gunn led a session for the Beginners and Improvers, demonstrating basic checkmates in pawnless positions. Interestingly these included King, Bishop and Knight v King, which is far from basic.

The internal rapidplay completed 74 rounds. Tauseef Rahman won all three of his games last night to move into second place in the table. James Toon and Adam Sefton are the only players still on 100%.

The Guildford FIDE Congress now has 132 entries, just a few short of last year's total of 136 with over two weeks to go.

Contact us

This form is for enquiries from adults. For juniors please use the contact form on our Juniors page.