The Drunken Knights chess team is an infamous bunch of like-minded players who enjoy playing the game of chess whilst sinking the odd pint.
The main Drunken Knights team play in central London, at The Plough pub, right near to the British Museum. This team is brilliantly run by the charismatic Nevil Chan but just recently, transport bigwig, Gary O’Grady has started a ‘Surrey Branch’ down in Godalming his home town.
Now this has become quite handy for me as I now live a 2 minute walk away from the home venue. Coincidence you may think? Well kind of I guess…
It was a hard decision leaving my old club Sandhurst, who have made many great steps in improving the status of chess and I must thank Alec (the main man at Sandhurst) personally, for he has helped me out greatly but from a practical point of view, it made more sense to join the Drunken Knights.
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