Ellie Reeves MP was a strong junior chess player. Recently she paid a visit to Ivydale Primary School in Southwark to take a look at our programme in action.

CSC CEO Malcolm Pein delivered a fundraising simultaneous display at Schroders in the City of London.

ChessFest returns in 2025 culninating in CSC taking over Trafalgar Square for a great celebration of chess on Sunday 13th July.

More from CSC’s gap year student, Joe, who is now running a daily chess club while volunteering at a school in rural Nepal.

Our free chess webinars resume on Monday 28th April, aimed at children aged between 7 and 13 who want to take the next steps to chess mastery.

CSC will be running a community chess club at Old Spitalfields Market in east London for the summer months. Please join us!

We were delighted to hear from keen chess player Nick Prior who is raising money for CSC by undertaking Yorkshire’s Three Peaks Walk.

CSC gap year student, Joe, was invited to make the ceremonial first move in a FIDE rated event in Kathmandu.

CSC ran a tournament at City Central Library, Stoke-on-Trent, for members of our blossoming Staffordshire library chess clubs.

On Saturday 29th March CSC held a session to develop the classroom management skills of our tutors.

In collaboration with the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Council, CSC was delighted to host a chess tournament for the borough’s primary schools at Kensington Town Hall on Tuesday, 25th March.

CSC organised a tournament for GLF Schools featuring 85 players from 17 different schools.

On Tuesday 18th March CSC helped organise The Boleyn Trust’s inaugural inter-school chess tournament.

CSC has a busy schedule of Training and Recruitment Days in March, with a few spaces left on our Manchester course.

CSC has been proud to support annual ‘Queen’s Gambit’ tournaments for the Bellevue Place Education Trust since 2022 and this year’s event took place on Wednesday 12th March.

Rushanara Ali, MP for Bethnal Green and Stepney, paid a visit to the latest round of our Stepney Primary Schools Chess League.

CSC was delighted to return to the Guildhall to run the 6th City of London Schools’ Chess Tournament.

Following its success at the London Chess Classic, held at the Arsenal stadium, Whitefield Primary got the chance to visit Anfield too.

The Times Educational Supplement recently reported on schools’ positive experiences in CSC Schools Programme.

Malcolm Pein delivered a masterclass on positional chess to students from the academy, taking a break from a holiday in South Africa.