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Ipswich Junior Chess Club

Ipswich Junior Chess Club at Ipswich County Library, Ipswich

Information - Ipswich Junior Chess Club

Ipswich Junior Chess Club provides a friendly environment for young people aged 6-18 to learn and play chess. The emphasis is on informality and enjoyment, but there is also coaching and competition. All of the adults who run the club are unpaid volunteers who are DBS checked.

The club meets at Ipswich County Library, Northgate St, IP1 3DE, on Sunday mornings, 10:30 – 12:30, during school term-time, for the full Autumn and Spring terms, and the first part of the Summer term.

We are on the 2nd (top) floor. There is a lift or you can use the main staircase. This gives us two rooms to play in and help us to do more coaching for all standards. Please Note – all January and 1st February sessions in 2026 are back in the 1st floor Lecture Hall (our old room) because of renovation work upstairs. There will be extra signage at both Library entrances until the works are finished and we return to normal.

Participants pay £3 per person (siblings are £2 for larger families), each week, although there is an option to pay subs for half a term or the whole term in one go, with a small discount. Payments need to be made in cash at the start of the session / half-term please. Parents should be prepared to stay with their children until they have been settled into the club, or for all 8yr olds and younger, and will of course be welcome to help out and play. For more information please get in touch via our email address ipswichjuniorchess@gmail.com.