ChessFest 2024 ChessFest returned to Trafalgar Square, London on Sunday 7th July 2024, bigger and better than ever before. A record 23,300 people visited the festival and enjoyed a wide range of fun, family-friendly, and free chess activities. Even a thunderstorm couldn't dampen our visitors' enthusiasm for chess. Our volunteers quickly stepped in with the squeegee mops and their window wipers and the games resumed as the clouds blew away. Many of the UK's top chess players joined us for the day, including England's top player, Grandmaster Nikita Vitiugov, British Champions, Grandmasters Gawian Jones, Matthew Sadler, Stuart Conquest, and Chris Ward, as well as British Women's Champions, International Master Harriet Hunt and FIDE Master Akshaya Kalaiyalahan. In addition, three of the UK's new generation of chess stars, Supratit Banerjee, Ethan Pang, and Bodhana Sivanandan, took on members of the public in simultaneous displays and in our Challenge the Chess Master tent. In addition to our flagship event in the capital, ChessFest 2024 includes events in Hull on Sunday 7th July and Liverpool on Sunday 21st July. For more information, please visit www.chess-fest.com. Manage Cookie Preferences