Remember this? Here’s the video from ChessFest 2024
ChessFest is the UK’s largest chess event. It’s free to attend and features a wide range of fun, family friendly chess activities. Every July since 2021 we have taken over Trafalgar Square for a day and we continue to go from strength to strength and we also have a sister event in Liverpool. This year the festival was as special as ever and despite the rain we had a record 23,000 visitors in the Square.
Events at Chessfest 2024
Free chess lessons for children and adults from professional chess teachers and top UK players
10 giant chess sets for people to play on
100s of chess tables for children and chess fans to play with each other
Challenge a Chess Master at speed chess
Blindfold Chess exhibition
Giant speed chess display. Watch two masters battle it out in a test of speed and strength.
A truly giant screen (12 x 7m) broadcasting all the action from the square!
Live link-ups and challenge matches with ChessFest Hull
Many of the UK’s top chess players joined us 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.
See you in 2024!
We’re already counting down to next year’s ChessFest. Join us again for another unforgettable celebration of chess!