Leeds chess club

Established 1834

WHAT DOES IT COST?

You will be reading this page if you've looked at some chess club sites and are now at the stage of taking it further. Here you you will learn how much it costs to play chess in Leeds, and as we're probably the cheapest club in Leeds, you will most likely agree that we offer great value for money.

You will need to be a member of the English Chess Federation to play for Leeds Chess Club, most clubs require this these days. To become a member of the ECF, you will have to pay £11.00 for the year, this covers all of your games for grading and will also entitle you to discounts at chess congresses. If you play 3 congresses in a year, you will have already made you money back from entry discounts!

Additional fee's required are actual team entry fee's and subs for new chess equipment. This year the subs are a little higher than they usually are, this is due to our increasing size as we now require more equipment to cover the extra team.

Therefore, subs will total £21.00 this year but on a standard season, they shouldn't be any more than £15.00.

However, if you're not a league player and just want to play friendly chess. No subs will be required.

Next season.

The new chess season will start in October and should finish around May 2011. If you would like to play for Leeds Chess Club in the league this season, please click here and fill out the form. We are desperate for 3 teams and I need to know how many interested people we have. Thanks! Oh and you can view the provisional team lineups here.

New discussion area.

Hi members, just to let you know that you can now find a new discussion area on the team news page. Of course, this is a password protected area so you may talk about anything regarding your chess without giving anything away to other clubs! Also, if you forget the password or don't know it, send me an email and I'll let you know what it is. Cheers!

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Book Club.

Click here to view books that are available for loan.

New grades.

Both the 2010 ECF and YCA grades have finally been published, click here to see what your YCA is if you play for Leeds Chess Club. Click here to see what your ECF is.

Leeds Vs Bradford.

Leeds are to take on Bradford in a pre season graded match, both Leeds and Bradford are hoping to get the best players from their respective leagues to join up. If you play in the Leeds league and would like to play for us in this match, click here for more information and a link to the entry form.

Next chess club night.

We are next meeting at the North Leeds Working Men's Club on Wednesday 01 September from 6.30pm onwards.

Leeds Chess Club Championship 2010.

The Leeds Chess Club Championship is now underway, the 2nd round is almost complete and 5 rounds remain. You can view the official Leeds Chess Club Championship page here, which is being updated on a regular basis.

Join Leeds on chess.com.

I now run a Leeds team on chess.com here and you can join if you fancy playing some team matches with us. We're currently playing matches with France, Kazakhstan, Austria, Australia, Korea and many, many more... It doesn't cost anything to join and play and new matches are started on a regular basis so you always have a chance to get playing some serious chess for us!

Team line ups for next season.

The team line ups for next season have been released, you can find them here.