How do you know the changes you mention are to do with time and not location/club?John Townsend wrote: For some reason, things were different when I joined my last club (roughly ten years ago), since there was then no club night ....
I started playing in Essex and there was a lot of social chess as well as matches at my club there. I moved to London and was surprised to find my local club didn’t do any 'casual chess' per se. It was only matches? A change due to changing times? Or change caused by moving to the big city? Neither really. Just down the road there’s a club that has an awful lot of social chess as well as matches.
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