CLUB MEMBERSHIP
Season 2025-26
Covering the 14 Fridays 5th September 2025 to 5th
December 2025 inclusive the cost is £50 per member juniors and seniors.
For new members who want a trial session the cost is £5. Guests welcome at £5 per night.
All membership queries please email the
Club Secretary
League Management System Club Page
ECF LMS
Over The Board chess every Friday Evening from 5th September 2025.
Crowborough Community Centre TN6 1FE downstairs meeting
rooms.
Parking is limited immediately outside the Community
Centre but plenty of very close free parking on the other side of Pine Grove
signposted to Waitrose.
Fridays
6:30pm Junior Club
consisting of a half hour training session followed by the Junior Blitz Tournament
7:45pm Senior Club starts
consisting of an organised rapid play
tournament of 4 games with a 10+5 time control.
The games will be ECF Rapid Play rated so members should
ensure that their ECF Membership is renewed.
We are going to try this new format rather than the longer
games of last season. If its not popular we will change back.
The Large Meeting Room 1 is available from 6:15pm to 10:00pm
The Small Meeting Room 3 is available from 6:15pm to 7:15pm
Meeting Room 3 is also used for team matches against other clubs
The Café Area is usually available for parents to wait in or if being used parents are more than welcome to sit in the playing rooms
The older juniors are
encouraged to join the adults and to play in the Rapid play.
Membership
We will ask each member
to complete a membership form
For new parents please
note that we are not acting in Loco Parentis and it is a condition of
membership that you or a nominated adult supervises your child throughout
a session.
If you are not remaining
within the Community Centre please inform us at the beginning of the
session who your child’s nominated supervisor is.
Adults and Juniors
playing in Teams or the Rapid Club Championship will also need to be
members of the English Chess Federation as these will be nationally rated
games.
Online
We have a team on Lichess
Club Teams
We enter teams into the Sussex Chess League and the Sussex County Chess Association Cup competitions.
English Chess Federation
All club members are encouraged to be at least bronze members of the ECF.
Club members playing for our teams or in our Adult Friday tournaments must be at least Bronze members.
If you play in tournaments or our Congress you will need to be a Gold member.
Club members can join the ECF online at
www.englishchess.org.uk
Annual ECF subscriptions ;
Bronze ……………£ 21.00 ( Junior Bronze £7.50 )
Gold ……………….£ 37.00 ( Junior Gold £ 14.00 )
Juniors are free for their 1st year.
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