By paying your 369 Chess Club Membership, you are deemed to have signed and be bound by our Member's Agreement.
By joining 369, you acknowledge that league team spots and club resources are allocated based on active memberships.
Being a 369 Chess Club member brings unique benefits.
When you join, you are given a competition-ready chess set, which includes a hard travel case, 20 inch silicon chess board, quadruple weighted pieces, and digital chess clock, as well as a pad of notation paper to record games.
This set becomes yours to own.
It worth approximately £70, which means most of the value of your first year's members fee is returned to you.
You are then expected to bring your set to play social chess.
All 369 Chess Clubs members who play league chess for the club also use their own Club-provided set to play their home league matches.
We choose sets produced by A&A chess that are simple, easy and safe to carry and store, and are a pleasure to play on.
That allows 369 Chess Club Members to play anywhere, anytime, with friends, family and each other.
As a 369 Member, you also have informal access to the insights and expertise of your fellow chess enthusiasts at the Club, and our friends across the Bristol Chess Community, including at our partner Portishead Chess Club that specialises in growing children's chess across the region.
Check out our website for Chess events, Latest News, Tournaments, and help with Learning Chess, and well as access to our League fixtures and results.
You can buy the iconic 369 hoodie and other chess merchandise here.
The 369 Chess Club doesn't currently hold a centralised pool of chess sets and clocks.
We've decided to initially work that way to avoid the need for any individual members being responsible for the storage, safe-keeping, transport and and setting up and down, or to have to hire storage facilities at venues.
That means the chess sets and clocks we play with, although standardised to ensure they meet League requirments, are owned by individual members, paid for from their membership fees.
REPLACEMENT COSTS
If a player loses a whole set, clock or piece they’d need to pay to replace.
The combined kit costs £55 (over £70 retail).
The set is £35 to replace, clock is £20. And £5 to replace a piece.
We’d be cannibalising a set that has been paid for to replace any pieces, making that set unusable, becoming a collection of spares. £5 is expensive for a pawn, but cheap for a minor piece of which there is only 2, or a king which has just 1.
So in summary if a player loses equipment: the replacement cost is £35 to replace the whole chess set, £20 to replace the clock, and £5 to replace a lost piece.