The Historic Home of Scottish Chess - 200 years old and counting
The country's senior chess club offers a warm welcome to everyone wishing to visit our West End clubrooms.
Established on the 4th November 1822, the club has been celebrating its bicentenary since the anniversary. It is not only the oldest club in Scotland and the UK but probably the second-oldest club in the world. (Zurich is believed to be the oldest est. 1809)
These celebrations also incorporated our other important bicentenary - the 200th anniversary of the famous Edinburgh - London correspondance match, the first of its kind, which started in 1824 and saw the letters containing the moves carried by horse and carriage. .
Happily there has been something of an upsurge in interest in chess since the period of the Covid lockdowns ended and the club has seen many more players of all playing strengths joining us - particularly juniors and females, both of which we are very happy to see.
Come and visit us
The Edinburgh Chess Club is proud of its heritage and is happy to entertain chess enthusiasts from all over the world - in person as well as here on the web site.
We're equally glad to see local players who wish to take advantage of our clubroom facilities to play more often - whether they wish to play for us in the leagues as full members, wish to play only in our tournaments, or merely play casual chess as affiliate members.
Training and
We offer training and coaching to junior players and the chance to play in our Tiger Cubs junior team in the Edinburgh League. We are aso very keen to bring more girls and women into the game
We hope you'll find the club a stimulating place to pursue the game.