BUCA Members
If you would like your society to be added to this list, e-mail Alex Holowczak with the date, time and where you meet, a contact name, phone number and e-mail address, and a link to any website your society may have.
Benefits
Becoming a member costs £10. The benefits are:
Discount Subscription to British Chess Magazine
Member societies should contact admin@buca.org.uk and ask for the promotional code for BUCA, which will give you a 10% discount on the normal price. You will then be able to go to this link, enter the promotional code, and make your purchase(s).
Equipment
If you’re looking to start up a chess society, or looking for equipment for your existing society, BUCA, in partnership with CCF Mindgames can offer the following:
5 sets – one “set” includes a drawstring bag, a set of tournament-standard pieces, and a roll-up board. This will cost £9/set subject to a minimum order of 5 sets.
DGT Easy+ chess clock – a clock that allows users to play competitive games of chess against other people or teams, and have the games graded. The cost for this will be £25 each, or £22.50 each subject to a minimum order of 5 clocks.
Grading
If you wish to have your internal games graded, you can have them graded by BUCA at a cost of 20p per game played (10p per game for rapidplay), which goes directly to the ECF as Game Fee, if the following information is provided: (i) Names of both players (ii) Result of the game (iii) Time control of the game. The results of the game will appear in the next six-monthly grading list. For more about ECF grading, see here.
Note that a “game” consists of two results, and the above Game Fee rates are half the rate you would pay by going directly via the ECF.
Forms
In order to be eligible for this, Universities must have completed and returned the BUCA membership form for that season, and paid the necessary membership fee.
Membership Form
Order Form
Grading Report Form
Grading Report Form Helpsheet
Submit the form or forms to admin@buca.org.uk upon completion.
Note
BUCA reserves to alter the above quoted rates from time-to-time. Notices to that effect will be published at such a time.
Members
The following map shows the location of all the BUCA Members as of the end of the 2010/11 season. Information can be viewed about each society by clicking on each of the pins. Open University is not shown on the map. You will need to zoom in on London and Birmingham, because they have multiple societies within a very short distance. If you cannot see the map, each member’s information is given underneath the map.
Aston
Meetings: Wednesday 19:00 – 21:00, Unity Lounge, Students’ Guild (occasionally Wednesday 16:00 – 18:00)
Contact: Alex Holowczak
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Bath
Meetings: Thursday evenings, 8W 2.11
Contact: James Jackson
Website
Birmingham
Meetings: Wednesday 17:00 onwards, various venues
Contact: Jim Barrett
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Bristol
Meetings: Sunday 15:00 – 18:00, Bar 100, Students’ Union
Contact: Jack Paton
Website
Brunel
Meetings: Wednesday 17:00 – 19:00, LC011
Contact: Mark Carter
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Cambridge
Meetings: Saturday 15:00 – 18:00, Whewell’s Court, Trinity College
Contact: Alex Gordon-Brown
Central Lancashire
Meetings: TBA
Contact: Liam Bromley
Dundee
Meetings: Wednesday 19:00 onwards, Seminar Rooms, Dundee Medical School, Ninewells
Contact: Lloyd Hughes
Durham
Meetings: Saturday 13:30 – 16:00, Elvet Riverside 153
Contact: Will Taylor
Edinburgh
Meetings: Wednesday 20:00 – 23:00, 60 Pleasance, Societies’ Centre (Braid room)
Contact: Adam Bremner
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Exeter
Meetings: TBA
Contact: Hannah Dale
Glasgow
Meetings: Thursday 16:00 – 19:00, Queen Margaret Union
Contact: William McIntosh
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Imperial
Meetings: Thursday 19:00 onwards, Meeting Room 3, East Basement Union Building
Contact: Jamie Funnell
Leeds
Meetings: Tuesday 19:30 – 21:30, Parkinson Room B.08
Contact: Andy Cowan
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Leicester
Meetings: Non-fixed time and room
Contact: Perry Khanna
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LSE
Meetings: Monday and Friday 17:00 – 19:00
Contact: James Foley
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Manchester
Meetings: Wednesdays 19:00 onwards, Oxford Road Students’ Union
Contact: David Edmunds
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Middlesex
Meetings: Meeting place: Hendon Campus, The Burroughs, London
Contact: Adam Raoof
Contact: Adam Duale
Nottingham
Meetings: Tuesdays 19:00 – 22:00, Portland Building, Room C20, University Park Campus
Contact: Chris Sargeant
Website
Open
Contact: Paul Kendall
Oxford
Meetings: Tuesdays 19:30 onwards, St. John’s College
Contact: Stephen Belding
Website
Portsmouth
Meetings: Thursdays 19:00 onwards, The Third Space, Cambridge Road
Contact: Taka Chipanga
Queen Mary’s
Meetings: Tuesdays 18:00 onwards, ITU, Whitechapel Union (BLSA)
Contact: Cholan Anandarajah
Southampton
Meetings: Thursday 19:30 onwards, The Committee Room, Southampton Students’ Union
Contact: Matt Lunn
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Surrey
Meetings: Wednesdays 18:00 – 21:00 75MS02
Contact: Seb Galer
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Swansea
Meetings: Weekend mornings
Contact: Kaushalya Kularatnam
UCL
Meetings: Wednesday 17:00 – 19:00 (Training) & Friday 16:00 – 19:00 (Friendlies/Tournaments), Bloomsbury Conference Room, 2nd Floor
Contact: Sfreejith Shreenivas
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Warwick
Meetings: Tuesday 19:30 onwards, Meeting Rooms, Students’ Union Headquarters
Contact: Jake Langham
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York
Meetings: Monday 20:00 onwards, The Courtyard
Contact: Richard Cowan