British Chess Associations and clubs
Maintained by T.C.Gavriel
Webmaster of LetsPlayChess.com  

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All websites are great in their own right because different people have different amount amounts of time and resources and are all usually non-commercial in nature, representing a club or organisation.

Websites which the Britweb webmaster personally feels are exceptional and in some way inspirational are highlighted with a Wow! indicator. The idea is to drive Britweb websites forward through emphasising great examples which others can be motivated by. But the people behind every website should be given credit for representing their club and association on the web - Well done to all :-)

   English Chess Federation
Affiliated to FIDE

    East Anglian Chess Union  (New!)
    
        Founded 1893
         A constituent unit of the BCF

           Brandon Kings Gambit Chess Club

Bedfordshire (7)
Bedfordshire Chess Association

        Norfolk (68)
      Clubs and Contacts

        Norfolk chess association
        Brandon Kings' Gambit Chess Club  
          Kings Lynn Chess Club  

London Chess League (44)  
Founded 1983
A constituent unit of the BCF

See list of clubs in London on and off the web

Middlesex Chess Association  
Albany Chess Club
Athenaeum chess club (New!)
Battersea chess club  
Dulwich Plough chess club (New!)
Ealing Chess Club
Hackney Chess Club (New!)
Harrow Chess Club (New!)
Hendon Chess Club   
Ilford Chess club  
Insurance Chess club
Kings Head Chess Club  (Wow!)
Imperial College chess club (Wow!)
Lewisham Chess club   
Metropolitan chess club
Mushrooms Chess Club  (New!)
Muswell Hill Chess Club  (The 1st DOT COM Chess Club?!)
Streatham and Brixton Chess Club (New!) (Wow!)
Wanstead and Woodford Chess Club   
West London Chess Club   
Willesden and Brent chess club  

London Primary Schools Chess Association

Richmond Junior Chess Club (Wow!)

Suffolk (91) 

Adastral Park, Ipswich
Brandon King's Gambit Chess Club  
Bury and West Suffolk Chess Club
Bury Cannons chess club  
Bury Knights chess club  
Ipswich Junior Chess Club  
Sudbury Chess Club  (Wow! *2! )
Suffolk chess  
Hadleigh Chess club
Lowestoft Chess Club (New!)
Woodbridge School Chess Club 

Manchester and District Chess Association  
Founded 1890
A constituent unit of the BCF

   Manchester Chess Federation

   Manchester Chess Scene
   About Greater Manchester Junior chess
   

    Greater Manchester (45)

       3Cs (Childrens Chess Club)
        Bury chess club (New!)
        Chorlton chess club  (New!)
        East Cheshire
        Great Lever Chess Club (New!)
        Manchester Universities chess club
        Stockport chess
        Stockport chess club     
        Swinton chess club  (New!) (Wow!)
        Wilmslow chess club  

Midlands Counties Chess Union  (19,26,45,39,59,72,74,82,84,89,97,100)
A constituent unit of the BCF

    Midlands Chess Information

    Cheshire (19)
    Chester YMCA chess club
    East Cheshire Chess Club
    Macclesfield Chess Club
   
Hereford and Worcester (49)
  Worcester Chess Association
    Stratford Chess Club
     St James Chess Club
    Worcester City Chess Club

    Leicestershire (59)
    Leicestershire and Rutland Chess Association
    Littlethorpe Chess Club
    Hinckley Chess Club  
    Leicestershire Primary Schools Chess Association  
    Loughborough Chess Club  (New!)
    Rushey Mead Chess Club
    Shepshed Rooks Chess Club

    Northamptonshire (72)
      Northamptonshire County Chess Association
       Daventry and District Chess Club
        Northampton chess club  

    Nottinghamshire (74)   

Nottinghamshire chess association  (New!)
     Nomads Chess club       
      West Nottingham Chess Club

    Rutland (82)
    Leicestershire and Rutland Chess Association  
    Oakham School Chess Club
 

   East Midlands
        Long Eaton chess club

  Shropshire (84)
    Telepost Chess Club
    Oswestry chess club (New!)

  Staffordshire (89)
    North Staffordshire and District chess association (New!)
    Cheddleton and Leek Chess Club
    Fenton Chess Club (New!)
     Newcastle-under-Lyme Chess club (New!)   

    Warwickshire (97)
    Warwickshire chess association  (New!)

Warwickshire Juniors
Mutual Circle Chess Club
Nuneaton Chess Club
Olton Chess Club
Redditch Chess Club
University of Warwick Chess Club
Whoberley Chess Club

  West Midlands (100)
     Birmingham University Chess Club (New!)
      Checkmates Chess Club
      HalesOwen Chess Club
      Handsworth Wood Chess Club
      Lucas and Birmingham Settlement Chess Club
      Olton Chess Club (Wow!)
      Shirley and Lucas Chess Club
      South Birmingham Chess club (New!)
      Solihull Chess Club
      Stourbridge Chess Club (Wow!)
      Stratford Chess Club
      Sutton Coldfield Chess Club (Wow!)  
      Mutual Circle Chess Club
      Tamworth and District Chess Club
      Walsall Kipping Chess Club  (New!)
      Wessex Chess Club
      Whoberley Chess Club  
     

Northern Counties Chess Union  (24,58,61,32,71,88,102,95,73,37)
Founded 1899
A constituent unit of the BCF

        Cumbria chess Association  (24)  

Lancashire chess association (Wow!) (58)  
East Lancashire chess association

       Atherton chess club (Wow!)
        Leyland chess club (New!)
        Rochdale Chess Club  

Merseyside (61)
Merseyside Chess Information
Atticus Chess Club (Wow!) (New!)
Southport chess club  
Wallasey chess club  

    Durham (32)
      Durham chess association  
     

   Yorkshire chess Association    (71,88,102,37)

   North Yorkshire (71)
        Harrogate chess club

   South Yorkshire (88)
        Rotherham chess club  
        Stannington chess club (New!)
    
   West Yorkshire (102)
        Alwoodley Chess club (New!)
          Bradford and District Chess Association
          Leeds County Chess Association
          Pudsey Chess Club
          Rose Foregrove Chess Club
          Wakefield chess club  

   East Yorkshire (37)
      Hull and District Chess Association  
     Hull University Chess Club
     Hull Chess Club  (New!) (Wow!)
     
    City of York
    University Of York Chess Club

    Cumbria
    Cumbria Chess Association (New!)

    Northumberland (73)
    Northumberland chess association  (New!)
    Northumbria Junior chess association  

   Tyne and Wear (95)
  

Southern Counties Chess Union (Wow!)  (8,13,15,38,39,50,57,76,91,92,101)
Founded 1892
A constituent unit of the BCF

   Berkshire (8)
     Berkshire Junior Chess Association (New!) (Wow!)
     Berkshire Chess Association
      Slough Chess Club  (New!)

Buckinghamshire (13)
    Buckinghamshire Chess Association  (New!)

    Bucks Youth Chess Association  (Wow!)


    East Sussex (38)

     Crowborough Chess Club  (Wow!)
     East Grinstead Chess Club  (Wow!)
     Sussex Junior chess
     Brighton chess club
     Horsham Chess Club   

    West Sussex (101)

     Sussex Junior chess (New!)
     Bognor and Aron chess club  

     Essex (39)
    Essex Chess Association

   Basildon chess club (New!)
    Braintree chess club  
    Chelmsford chess club (Wow!)
    Essex U175 team  
    Essex Juniors   
    Essex Junior Chess News (New!)
    Southend-on-sea chess club
    Wanstead and Woodford chess club
    WestCliff Chess Club  
   

    Hertfordshire (50)

    Hertfordshire Chess Assocation

Barnet chess club (Wow! :-) )
Barnet knights chess club (New!)
Bishop Stortford and District Chess Club (New!)
Borehamwood chess club
Hemel Hemptead Chess Club (New!)
Hertford Chess Club (Wow!)
Hoddesdon Chess Club
Little Heath and Brookmans Park Chess Club  
Royston Chess Club (New!)
St Albans Chess Club  
Stevenage Chess Club
Watford Chess Club (Wow!)

    Kent (57)
    
        Kent Junior Chess Association (Wow!)
         Kilndown chess club
         Tonbridge and Hadlow Chess Club (Wow!)

    Surrey (92)

Surrey County Chess Association
Camberley chess club   
Castle Junior chess club (Wow!)
Coulsdon chess fellowship (New!)
Dorking chess club
Guildford chess club (New!)
Surbiton Chess Club (New!)

    Cambridgeshire (15)
       Cambridge City Chess Club  (New!)
         Cambridge University Chess Club (New!)

    Oxfordshire (76)
          Oxfordshire Chess Association  (New!)
            Oxford University Chess Club (New!)
            Oxford University - Jesus college Chess Club  

   The Isle of Man (53)

    The Isle of Man Chess Association and Southern chess club  

    West of England Chess Union (12,23,27,28,85,48,103,43)
        Found 1st June 1947
        A constituent unit of the BCF

Bristol (12)
   Yate and Sodbury Chess Club
   Bristol University Chess Club

Cornwall (23)
    Cornwall County Chess Association  
   
Devon County Chess Association (27) (New!)
    Exeter chess club (Wow!)

   Dorset (28)
    Southbourne Chess Club
     Wimborne Chess Club

Hampshire chess association (48)
    Fareham chess club (New!)
    Portsmouth chess club  (Wow!)
    Southampton chess club (New!)
    Waterlooville Junior Chess Club

Somerset (85)
    Somerset County Chess Association  
        Sedgemoor Chess Club (New!)
       

Wiltshire (103)
    The Brown Jack Chess Club  (New!)
    Swindon Chess Club  (New!)
    Wiltshire Junior Chess information  
   

Gloucestershire(43)
    Gloucester Chess Club  
    Stroud chess club  
    Musketeer's chess club  

   Chess Scotland (Wow!)
Affiliated to FIDE

(2,3,5,6,10,20,21,22,29,30,31,33,34,35,36,40,41,51,52,63,65,69,70,75,78,80,83,86,87,90,98,99)
                       
                    Borders (Scottish) (10)
                       Scottish Borders Chess     

                    City of Edinburgh (20)

Edinburgh Club  (Wow!)
Edinburgh University Club
Wandering Dragons Chess Club  
Wardie Chess Club

                     City of Glasgow (21)

Cathcart Chess Club
Cumbernauld Chess Club  
Glasgow Montrose Chess Club
Glasgow Polytechnic chess club
Phones Chess Club 
Troon Chess Club  

Dundee City (31)

Castlehill Chess Club

East Dumbartonshire (34)

Bearsden Chess Club

East Renfrewshire (36)

Giffnock & Clarkston Chess Club

Fife (41)

Tayside and Fife Chess Association
Glenrothese Chess Club
Schools of the Tayside and Fife Chess Association

North Lanarkshire (70)

Cumbernauld Chess Club

Perthshire & Kinross (78)

Carse of Gowry Chess club

South Ayrshire (86)

Carrick Chess Club

South Lanarkshire (87)

Pentland Hills Chess Club

Stirling (90)

Stirling Chess Club

West Lothian (99)

Livingston Chess Club  

Scottish Correspondence chess association

 

   Welsh Chess Union  
Affiliated to FIDE
(1,4,9, 11, 14,16,17,18,25,42,47,62,64,66,67,77,79,81,93,94,96,104)

Welsh Chess Correspondence Association (WCCA)  

Bridgend (11)
Bridgend chess club (Wow!)

Cardiff (16)

Cardiff chess club  

Dyfed

Dyfed Chess Association

Gwent (47)

Gwent chess association (Wow!)
       North Gwent Chess Club

North Wales

Chess in North Wales
Rhyle Chess Club

South Wales

Chess in South Wales
South Wales Dragons chess club

Swansea (93)

Morriston chess club  
Swansea Chess Club

Vale of Glamorgan (96)

Barry chess club  
Nelson chess club  

Wrexham (104)

Wrexham chess club

    Irish Chess Union (New!)
Affiliated to FIDE

    Ireland chess information

    
    Leinster chess union  

        Bray Chess Club
        Dublin Chess Club
        Elm Mount Chess Club
        Faughs Chess Club
        Lucan Chess Club
        Malahide Chess Club
        Phisboro Chess Club
        Rathfarnam/Tallaght Chess Club
        St Benildus Chess Club

            Affiliated to the Irish Chess Union

Munster

Cork Chess Club
Limerick Chess Club
Tralee Chess Club

   Ulster chess union    
   Ulster chess union (old version)
           
        
   Ulster Chess Chronicle     

    Bangor Chess Club      
    RVH Chess Club
    Hillsborough Chess Club
    Qub Chess Club

Connacht

Castlebar Chess Club
Galway Chess Club

Irish Correspondence Chess Association

Guernsey Chess Federation  
Affiliated to FIDE

Jersey Chess Federation
Affiliated to FIDE

Other British associations on the web

The Friends of Chess  
Affiliated to the British Chess Federation

The David Wood Memorial Trust  

   Greater London (44)
        Insurance chess club
Centenary Year 1993
Affiliated to the British Chess Postal Federation
Registered with the British Chess Federation via Game Fee

          British Correspondence Chess Association (New!)

Braille Chess Association

British Chess Problem Society (New!)

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