Five junior members of Watford Chess Club took part and played games against visitors to the Bucks Country Show.
The junior members, including one who was only five years old, played between 10am and 5pm on Sunday, May 4, and Monday, May 5.
Sagar Patel, the club’s treasurer, said: “Visitors were pleasantly surprised to see a chess club at the show. Youngsters were eager to play chess and gravitated to the playing boards, wanting to sit and learn as well as play.
“The adults were happy to see their children so engaged at the chess boards and eagerly conversed with us about their school chess clubs but they lacked information about, or access to, local chess clubs such as Watford.”
It was the first time that the club had been represented at the show. It boasts a membership 60 strong, of which two-thirds are juniors.
Roger Lancaster, the local junior organiser, added: “[Watford Chess Club is] the only club in the country to be recognised by the national federation as a Centre of Excellence for its work with young chess players.”
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