Chess Clubs

Here are links to some interesting club websites (which I’m still collecting, if you want to recommend one) and directories to more.

Directories

Specific Clubs

New Jersey

Directories to Chess Clubs

Chess Clubs Worldwide
An excellent resource from the Internet Chess Club.

Chessville Links to Chess Clubs
A good resource for some major sites.

DMOZ Open Directory of Clubs and Associations
A good listing of international sites.

Google Directory to U.S. Clubs
A fairly good listing, though far from comprehensive.

Chess Clubs Directory
A site where you can promote your club or find other club sites.

Specific Club Sites

Kenilworth Chess Club
My site for my favorite club.

Springfield / Checkmate Chess Club
An excellent site and a model for what other clubs can accomplish on a limited budget.

Exeter Chess Club
A well-established site with simple but effective design to house lots of content.

Schachgemeinschaft Hermsdorf
An excellent German site and keeper of the Chess Tactics Server.

Huntsville Chess Club
A well-known site on the net. Don’t like the spinning knights, but it’s typical….

Boylston Chess Club and BCC Weblog
An excellent Boston-area club with lots of online content.

Metropolitan Chess Club
One of London’s finest.

MetroWest Chess Club
Serving “metrowest” Boston and dubbed “The Largest Chess Club in New England.”

Renaissance Knights Community Chess Club
A very active web presence for a chess club.

Mechanics’ Institute
One of the best clubs and an excellent club website.

Marshall Chess Club
One of the oldest and most famous clubs.

Norresunby Chess Club
Danish site.

Tromsø Sjakklub
An excellently produced and quite robust site.

Chess Clubs in New Jersey

This is by no means a definitive list. I have focused only on clubs with websites. For a complete list of clubs, see the last entries.

Kenilworth Chess Club (Thursdays)
http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org
In case you did not realize where you were…

Springfield / Checkmate Chess Club (Sunday evenings)
http://www.geocities.com/springchess/
An excellent site and a model for what other clubs can accomplish on a limited budget.

Westfield Chess Club (Sunday afternoons)
http://www.westfieldchessclub.com/
An active club with strong membership and many rated events.

Hamilton Chess Club (Wednesday and Saturday)
http://www.hamiltonchess.org/

Roselle Chess Club (Thursdays)
http://www.geocities.com/rosellechessclub/

Chess Club of Greater Somerset County (Tuesdays)
http://home.att.net/~nwalthall/GSCC/
This site may no longer be maintained.

Holmdel Chess Club (Thursdays)
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/3411/homdelches

Toms River Chess Club (Thursdays)
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/trchessclub/trcc

Hackettstown Chess Club (Mondays)
http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/HackettstownChessClub/

Dumont Chess Mates (Mondays)
http://www.dumontchessmates.com/

Hoboken Chess Club (several nights)
http://hobokenchess.tripod.com/

The College of New Jersey (Wednesdays)
http://www.tcnj.edu/%7Echessc/

Find Other New Jersey Chess Clubs

Chess Clubs in NJ from NJSCF
http://www.njscf.org/chessclubs.htm

USCF Affiliate Search: New Jersey
http://www.uschess.org/directories/AffiliateSearch/clubresultsnew.php?pg=1&st=NJ
Lists most active New Jersey clubs.

New Jersey Chess Clubs from Chess Maniac
http://www.chessmaniac.com/Clubs/NewJersey.htm

Chess Clubs Worldwide: US: New Jersey from ICC
http://www.chessclub.com/resources/club_directory/

List of NJ Clubs from Kids Chess Network
http://www.kidschess.com/html/programs/njclub.htm