Bourne Chess Club has many resources available for use by its members. One of the goals of the club is to assist members in improving their chess. The following is a list of the resources that are available to members:
- Chess Up 2: An electronic training aid that assists all levels by suggesting strengths/weaknesses of the next move, connecting with chess.com, and in-built coach. Includes complete set of promotion pieces.
- Magnetic display board: A large visual representation of a chess board to help demonstrate/analyse key features of a game, openings, tactics, puzzles.
- Chess books: The entire Chess for Heroes series and a variety of other chess books.
- Reference material: Current month’s ECF ChessMoves, ECF 2025 Yearbook, FIDE rules of chess, ECF and Bourne Chess Club Safeguarding Policy
- Learning classes hosted by top-rated chess players
- Juniors Club
- Internally created “Inter-league” tournaments: rated and unrated
Members are invited to request any other resources for consideration to add to the above.
