Cambridge City Chess Club

Chess for juniors

Cambridge City Chess Club has a "league-focused culture", meaning that we primarily play competitive chess in pre-arranged team fixtures under tournament conditions. (Tournament conditions require silence, and the use of chess clocks.) Thus we cater mainly for serious adult chessplayers, who expect a silent and orderly environment.

Away matches require late evening travel to and from other cities on weekday nights, which is not optimal for school children. But some local chessclubs do cater for children, and may offer instruction:

Nigel Short playing in a simultaneous exhibition (against Smyslov) in 1976