Gloucester Chess Club

 I have just finished a pleasant evening of casual chess at the Gloucester Chess Club. I was made to feel very welcome, and the quality of players was at the upper end of club players back in Canberra. There were about 20 players at the club, with a mixture of adult players and older (teenage) junior players. I did uphold the honour of Canberra chess by winning a few games, although all of them were quite tough and could have gone in another direction.

And like clubs around the world, the conversations are strikingly similar. From the "I misplayed my opening and it was downhill from there" , "I'm not sure this will work, but why not!" to "C'mon brain, work!", chessplayers seemed to make the same observations. And the other ting the club had in common with chess clubs in Canberra, wonky tables. At least one game was in danger of a premature finish as the board was about to capsize.

If you are in Gloucester, the club meets on a Tuesday evening from 7:15pm, upstairs at the New Inn, Northgate, Gloucester. (And yes, in typical English style, it is named the New Inn to differentiate itself from all the other Inns founded in the 15th Century)