It’s free until you join or decide its not for you.
After that its £15 a year for Peterlee Chess Club membership.
After you’ve been playing a while you may want to play more competitively in the league and enter tournaments, for that you will need English Chess Federation membership that is another £21 a year.
So, if you just want to play some friendly games and learn at your own pace it’ll cost you £15 a year.
If you want to really test yourself in the league and tournaments it’ll cost you £36 a year, a mere 69p a week!
We want to make chess an engaging activity for people of all ages and skill levels, and make it accessible to everyone regardless of background or ability, but much more importantly, we want you to have fun and enjoy your time at the club.
If you’re a beginner you must have realistic expectations, chess is easy to learn, but it takes a long time to gain a better understanding of the game. You have to be prepared to get beat… A LOT!
To see real improvement it takes a lot of hard work and a hundreds/thousands of games played.
Lots of new players come to the club after playing online via Lichess or Chess.com, these are great sites for getting chess practise in, but THEE only way to play chess ‘properly’ is face to face.
The learning curve is much quicker when you can ask your opponent where you went wrong or simply discuss a game you’ve just played.
At Peterlee we’re all just enthusiastic amateurs. We range in strength from highly beatable to borderline county standard, but we all have one thing in common, our passion for the game.
We’ll help you out as much as possible, learn the game and improve at a very fast rate and hopefully have a load of fun in the process.
If you’d like to join the club, or just find out a little bit more, get in touch using the button below