Brighton and Hove Chess Club

Brighton & Hove Chess Club

The Railway Club, Belmont House, 4 Belmont, Dyke Road, Brighton, BN1 3TF (near Seven Dials)

Updates:	Welcome to our Homepage!	Blog:
20th May 2009: competition charts updated. 13th May 2009 - News section updated with tale of member declining to play armed opponent		Remember to check our blog (or click here) for recent announcements. (Occasionally most or all of us play in tournaments outside Brighton which can dramatically reduce turnout at the club.)
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	We are one of the oldest chess clubs in Britain. We welcome players of all abilities, whether you are just looking for a friendly game or wish to enter one of our internal club competitions! We now have five teams playing in the mid-Sussex League and each year many players enter various national and international competitions.
	Useful external sites

World Chess Federation	Rules of Chess	Chessbase (online gaming)
British Chess Magazine	English Chess Federation	Chess Software
Mid-Sussex League	Hastings International Chess Congress	Pieces of Fate Limited (promotes Brighton and Hove chess)
London Chess Centre	Free Chess (online gaming)	Game Knot (online gaming)
Useful (Non-Chess) external sites
These links are either open source applications (their programming is not secret - which helps the coding community overcome any problems as soon as they are discovered, they are free to use and free to distribute), freeware or in the spirit of either.
Thunderbird (for Email)	This site has been optimised for Firefox (for web browsing). Click here to download it - it is free!	Open Office (everything you need for work)
AVG (free anti-virus, anti-spyware & rootkit tools)	Free Software Foundation
		Flash is on 99.9% of browsers and many websites. Click here to download it - it is free! If you can't see the chessboard (to the left of this text), you don't have the Flash plug-in installed.

This web site was designed by a local Brighton Barrister.