Maynard-area Chess Club

From the first meeting on 2023-06-18 to the latest on 2024-11-24 we've had up to 16 players at a meeting, from beginners to national masters. In total we have around 70 members.

Take a look at our photos. You can use #MaChessC as a unique hashtag if you have some you'd like to post elsewhere.

Basics

The most important thing is to join the mailing list! Be sure to check your spam and trash and reply to the follow-up email you'll receive after you request to join. This is all you need to do to be a member of the club!

Add us to your calendar 🗓️

Time: Sundays, 2:10pm - 6pm (Note that we don't always stay that late; it is safest to come before 4pm, or txt 617-401-6414 first to make sure we are going strong.)

Location: Excelsior Comics & Games Lounge, 8 Waltham St, Maynard, MA (508) 808-9124

Parking: Behind the Jiffy Lube across the street, or at any of the very nearby municipal parking lots.

Questions? maynard-chess-help at mit dot edu

Families et cetera: Many other games & wifi available if you want to play chess but another in your party doesn’t.

Lead Organizer: Danny Clark @ (617) 401-6414 Text preferred. Any queries at all!

Area Served

MaChessC is for all, but especially for those in the Boston, Massachusetts MetroWest towns of Maynard, Stow, Acton, West Acton, Concord, West Concord, Sudbury, Hudson, Boxborough, Carlisle, Bolton, Littleton, Marlborough, Berlin, Harvard, Westford, Wayland, Lincoln, Southborough, and Weston.

Please email to ask that your town be added if it isn't on the list! :-)

Club Focus

A more fun/social club with G/15, clockless, G/5, and other rapid and blitz time controls being played most often.

Stay in contact

Mailing Lists

• Add yourself to maynard-chess at mit dot edu at https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/maynard-chess
• If you need to contact the organizers, you can use maynard-chess-help at mit dot edu

Chess Servers

Our club groups on:

• Chess.com
• lichess.org

Social Media

• FaceBook: Group
• Instagram: MaChessC_
• X: MaChessC, or search for our hashtag #MaChessC
• LinkedIn: Page

Discord

If you like Discord, you can:

1. Accept this invite.
2. Go to the SERVER INFO/#choose-server-roles channel and click on the silhouette gingerbread man icon at the bottom with the number next to it.
3. Go to the BOARD GAMES/#boardgames channel.

Reviews

On Google Business or Yelp!.

Physical Flyer

Please use this PDF if you'd like to print some flyers.

Other local(ish) options

Drive times are from MaChessC.

See also WhereToPlayChess.info - MA, Massachusetts Chess Federation, US Chess Federation - MA.

Littleton Chess for Kids

16 minute drive - https://www.facebook.com/littletonchess

• A pay club with formal teaching for kids
• See their Facebook page for current programs

MetroWest Chess

30 minute drive - https://www.metrowestchess.org/

• Wednesday nights, 7-10:30pm
• Single USCF-rated game per night and the control is always G/90; d5

Billerica Chess Club

40 minute drive - https://www.chess.com/club/billerica-chess-club

• Friday nights, 7pm

Medford Chess Club

45 minute drive - https://www.medfordchessclub.com/

• Saturday afternoons, 1-3pm

Boylston Chess Club

60 minute drive - https://boylstonchess.org/

• See https://boylstonchess.org/events for times

Wachusett Chess Club

65 minute drive - http://www.wachusettchess.org/

• Wednesdays nights, 6-10:30pm

See also

• Maynard-area Chess Club/Organizing Notes
• Maynard-area Chess Club/Accounting
• Maynard-area Chess Club/Donate
• Maynard-area Chess Club/Clocks HOWTO
• Maynard-area Chess Club/KidsChess5x6
• Area