Last year ChessFest at Trafalgar Square, London was 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. Many of the UK’s top chess players joined for the day, including England’s top player, Grandmaster Nikita Vitiugov, British Champions, Grandmasters Gawain 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.
This year Chess Fest is back and will take place Sunday 13th July 2025. The festival is free and open to all
More about Chess Fest: Chess Fest 2022 marks the 50th anniversary of the 1972 World Chess Championship match Fischer – Spassky
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