Where Berlin plays over the board

More than eighty clubs, cafés, parks and Spätis across the city — and every tournament, club night and blitz evening in one calendar. Free, in English and German, with no ads and no tracking.

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The Berlin Chess map, showing chess clubs, cafés, parks and a Späti as coloured markers across central Berlin.
  • 83 places to play
  • 44 chess clubs
  • 71 events in the next 30 days

Counted on 16 August 2026

The map

Find a board near you

Every marker is a real place where people actually play: the traditional clubs, the cafés with a standing Saturday meetup, the park tables, and the Späti with boards on the pavement from seven.

  • Filter by club, café, park or Späti
  • Tap a marker for the address, what happens there, and a route
  • Save the ones you play at and reach them from your profile
A venue open in the app: Späti Schönhauser Allee 174, its address and description, a directions button, and its coming-up evenings.

The calendar

Know what is on tonight

Every tournament, club night and blitz evening in the city on one month view, with the day's events underneath it. A multi-day tournament is marked on every day it runs, not just the day it opens.

  • Or a list, grouped into today, tomorrow and next week
  • Past events drop away on their own
  • Links straight through to the organiser's page and results
The events list grouped under headings for today, tomorrow and next week.

Your places

The three you actually go to.

Berlin has more than eighty places to play. You will use four of them. Tap the star on a venue and it lands on your profile, one tap from the map and from directions — and the map can show only those, when the rest is noise.

The Favourites section of the profile, listing a saved venue with its address and category.

Where the listings come from

Kept current from the sources that publish it

  1. 1 Sources The federation calendar, and the clubs' own public calendars
  2. 2 Sorted Gathered, de-duplicated, and matched to a venue
  3. 3 Checked Read by a person before it ever appears in the app

Nothing is scraped blindly and nothing is guessed: an event whose venue cannot be identified is set aside for review rather than shown in the wrong place. Found something wrong, or run a club night that should be listed? Write to berlinchessapp@gmail.com.

Play with us online

The board does not close when the café does.

Berlin Chess is on both of the big platforms. Follow along between meetups.

Lichess The Berlin Chess account on lichess.org. chess.com The Berlin Chess account on chess.com.