Bayonne Chess Society & Club A La Bruno's on Wednesday

Join us at Bruno's Pizzeria on Tuesdays and Wednesdays for some excellent chess and delicious food. They've become our main chess hub, where we pretty much pack the place every time we go. So, we added a second night !!! Joe's Pizza on Friday night is becoming our other chess hub. We're there from 7 pm until midnight. We get a good mix of kids and adults there. We get kids at Bruno's, but we get A LOT of the younger kids at Joe's. It's a more centralized location in Bayonne.

They're host us from 5:30 pm to 10 pm. We've been picking up new members from customers, who walk in, see us playing chess, and decide it's something they would like to join in on. Their food is great, but what's even greater is all our members get 25% off food while playing chess. Sorry, you have to be a member and play several games to get the discount. It IS for members only. They're the only venue currently giving us a discount. They have an outside area we use during warm weather too.

The group has 90% of our members on Facebook. There's over 340 adults on the Facebook sister site. No idea how many kids we have. We probably have about 50 members, who have said they have no social media. Add, what we have on Meetup, that's close to 500 members. That's including us weeding out people who join, and don't participate after a few months of being a member. We want participants .. NOT JOINERS. We've weeded out hundreds. They can always return, when they're ready to be actual members. Of course, this doesn't include the members we have in our 'Boardgame Division.'

The Bayonne Chess Society & Club meets 6 evenings a week at different venues. We have a venue that goes from 1pm to 6pm on Saturdays. That's 'OJ Mac's,' We use their huge outside area during the warm weather.

Then we have an afternoon venue 'Mom and Pop Shop Collectibles' across the street from 6 pm to 10 pm. That our 'Combo' event, where we play all types of card games, board games, chess... etc.

Sundays, we have 'Chess at Morris Park.' It's on 47th and Broadway in Bayonne. Title explains itself. We meet there from 1pm to 6pm. We just celebrated 'International Chess Day' a few weeks ago. We had FIDE Master and world renowned chess author of over 88 books Carsten Hanson do a Simul against our members. One member drew.

Mondays, we have a 'Combo' event at The Vic Tavern from 7 pm to 11 pm We get a good mix of players there as well.

We also have spontaneous meetups sometimes on days when nothing is scheduled. Some players can't get enough of chess. We also have a weekly friendly club chess tournament online. All members can play.

At 'Combo Events' members can play whatever they want. You name it, we've probably played it. We just got a jigsaw puzzle board, so, puzzles are not a thing. Some of the things we play are Scrabble, Monopoly, Mah Jongg, Skip Bo, Phase10, Uno, Dominoes, Sorry... etc. Recently, we played Catan, and Ticket to Ride. You bring it... we'll make our best effort to play it.

Join us on Facebook for the complete schedule.
https://www.facebook.com/share/g/17wxAw8NsW/

Please remember, the chess is FREE... the venues aren't. Please patronize the businesses that have been gracious enough to host us. They're places like pizzerias coffee shops, taverns.. etc.

We have a bunch of new locations in the pipeline to help grow what we have. We have members joining us from all over North Jersey. Even have a few from NYC. If you like twiddling your thumbs cool. If you want more... join us. If you know of someone young or old, who is looking to learn to play chess or plays chess and is looking to improve their game, we also have an affiliate sponsorship with Chessnut.

They manufacture the best and most models of electronic chessboards on the market. Many of our members have picked one up and rave about them. We can play versus various chess engines. We can play other players or bots on chess. com., or LiChess. org.

They have many many different models. from a normal sized chess board to a tournament sized all wooden chess board. They also make the most high tech chess e0board on the market... the Chessnut Evo. They have an excellent travel board called the Go. They just premiered a board that moves its pieces. All top of the line ... .top quality products.

They also have excellent customer service. You can follow them on Facebook. I reached out to them, told them we're a rapidly growing chess group, potentially becoming a force in chess. They saw our potential, and gave us a promo code, which gets all members a 20% discount. Higher than their own discounts on their website. So, if looking to learn how to play, or vastly improve your skill ... use the promo code 'Bayonne' , and receive anywhere from 12% to 17% depending on the item. The discount on everything in their store. Their link is
https://www.chessnutech.com/

We also have a Youtube channel. Feel free to check out our videos. Please like and subscribe. It's free and it helps the channel out a lot. Help us spread the word about the awesomeness of chess !!! We recently had a member join, because he was recommended one of our videos, and he knew the person playing. He called him up and said, " Chess ??? Where ??? When??? I want in !!!" So, yeah, please like and subscribe.

http://www.youtube.com/@BayonneChessSocietyClub-jb6bn

So, Chess is alive and growing in Bayonne. So join us. We're already over 500+ members...NOT including children. We've grown rapidly.

If you decide to join us .... understand, we are looking for participants, serious members. People that want to have a good time and just chill will others. Non participants will be removed. They can return, when they can actually participate. We're looking for players...not joiners, who never do anything. Clubs don't grow, when people do nothing. Then when you're ready to participate, feel free to join. No harm no foul.