Welcome!

We are an active, welcoming chess club in Edinburgh.

We are located at Slateford Bowling club, where we have access to a spacious playing hall.

As well as playing in the Edinburgh League, we are actively running club nights with club championship, lightning and social chess games available.

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Spens Cup - loss to Lenzie

15 March 2025

A tough one against five strong juniors from Lenzie in the quarter-final of the Spens Cup.

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Allegro League - 2nd team win the league!

13 March 2025

The 6th and final round of the Allegro League took place on Thursday 13th March, with both teams in contention just 1½ game points behind the leaders, Bank Of Scotland 2.

The second team had a great night with 3 - 1 and 4 - 0 wins to finish top of the allegro league!

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First team win Division 1!

11 March 2025

In our final league match we beat Wandering Dragons 4 - 2 to win the first division for the first time since 2018-19.

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