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Exeter Chess Club and Exeter Junior Chess Club play in the East Devon Chess League. We are a member of Devon County Chess Association, which is in turn part of the West of England Chess Union. We are also affiliated to the English Chess Federation.

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pExeter Chess Club meets Tuesdays 7:00pm at Heavitree Social Club, Wingfield Park, 2 East Wonford Hill, Exeter [a href="http://www.multimap.com/maps/?qs=EX1+3BScountryCode=GB"MAP/a]/p pJuniors meet 5:30-7:00pm, Tuesdays Sept-May/p pTel.Simon Waters (President) (01395) 233 280br / Tel.Sean Pope (Secretary) (01392) 436 420br / Tel.Dave Regis (Juniors) (01392) 431 785/p

How to run a junior club

Someone just emailed me with this question. My first reaction was 'if you don't have a clue, then you shouldn't be trying to do it', but then not everyone has my unbearable self-confidence that they can do things before they try, and it may be that someone running a chess club doesn't actually play much chess themselves. So...

Exeter Junior Chess Club

Exeter Junior Chess Club

offers competitions, matches, coaching and
friendly chess every week

Exeter Junior Chess Club Blog

News and games

Exeter Chess Club

We are a large, successful and friendly club. We have a junior wing: Exeter Junior Chess Club. We are affiliated to Devon County Chess Association.

Exeter Chess Club meets on Tuesdays from 7:00pm at
Heavitree Social Club, Wingfield Park, 2 East Wonford Hill, Exeter, EX1 3BS [MAP]
Juniors meet 5:30-6:30pm, Tuesdays Sept-May

Junior Website Design Credits

Credits

Thanks to our members...

Alex,

Charles,

Dan,

Joe,

Levi,

Oliver,

Pawel,

Sam,

Tipua

and Vimbai

...for their ideas and advice.

Exeter: a chess city

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1895: From the Archives

From Exeter Chess Club: 1895-1961 by Richard Hitchcock:

On the opening page of the Club's first minute book it is recorded, under the heading " Chess Club ", that " a meeting was held at Gisson's Hotel on Saturday, October 26th, 1895. (...) At this meeting, it was decided to ask the Literary Society, then established at Barnfield House, whether and on what terms the Society would set apart a room for the Club ". A week later, " at Mr. Widgery's studio ", it was decided to accept a tentative offer by the Society and to go ahead.