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Just wondering what hospitality do you provide your visiting teams. Normally at Brewood you get a cup of tea provided for you, but is there anything more we could/should do?

And we're not in a pub, so the choice of buying your opponent a pint does not exist for us.

It’s tea, coffee and biscuits - on tap for the duration of the match. Them Pick Up biscuits are really something else, although watch out for the ninja Chihuahua https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a2xvmg4Kag

There’s also a cold water dispenser - and if anyone wants extras (to suck!) there's crisps, peanuts, chocolate or fizzy drinks that can be bought cheaply from one of two vending machines.

Coffee, Coke or similar, cake, all they can eat or drink.

We're not in a pub either, so if anyone wants what passes for beer in these climes, they can buy one from the fridge.

At the last club I was a member of all we had for nearly 20 years was tea and coffee. Then along comes a 'Gastarbeitungen' and starts adding the biscuits.

For Saturday matches at York it used to be biscuits and a tea urn. Something vaguely similar is fairly normal in the Yorkshire league.

We've since lost our regular room though and that's all rather fallen by the wayside in the fallout Might need to move venue soon I suspect.

There is a bar, although it shuts around the time the games start then doesn't reopen until quite a bit later. Nice for after the match at least.

At club level nothing in over thirty years. For county matches in Beds we sometimes splash out on economy biscuits and polystyrene cups for a cup of scalding hot tea.

MartinCarpenter wrote:For Saturday matches at York it used to be biscuits and a tea urn. Something vaguely similar is fairly normal in the Yorkshire league.

We've since lost our regular room though and that's all rather fallen by the wayside in the fallout Might need to move venue soon I suspect.

There is a bar, although it shuts around the time the games start then doesn't reopen until quite a bit later. Nice for after the match at least.

Yeah the bar shutting just as you arrive with a raging thirst, was always a tad annoying in York RI - not so bad though as there are several other pubs close at hand, for after the game

My main problem with that room was the walk up and down Ben Nevis, if I wanted a quick smoke in the middle of the game

You should try having to carry fold up tables, chairs, sets etc up/down those stairs just before a match.....

MartinCarpenter wrote:You should try having to carry fold up tables, chairs, sets etc up/down those stairs just before a match.....

I wont if its all the same All West Leeds has to contend with is a man eating dog which lives in the room next door

"I wont if its all the same All West Leeds has to contend with is a man eating dog which lives in the room next door"

I hope you mean "man-eating dog"!

Have you been to Leeds?

Mick Norris wrote:Have you been to Leeds?

Each August since 2006 Sutton Coldfield Chess Club and Warley Quinborne Chess Club (both in the Birmingham League) have played a friendly match alternating between their respective home venues.

At the very first match at half-time, along with a few biscuits, cake was served. A year later at the rematch the home club felt obliged to reciprocate. This was the genesis of what quickly become known as the Cold War Cake Match.

Sutton Coldfield CC
http://www.suttonchess.org.uk

"Have you been to Leeds? "

Yes frequently - good point!