Camps

2022 BCS Summer Camp (In Person!) now open for registration!

Join our fantastic Summer Chess Camp!
Our summer camp will be fun, engaging and challenging! You can meet new friends who share a love of chess while improving your game and learning new strategies.
Our wonderful Berkeley Chess Center will provide a spacious and airy location for our camp, with a large playground for lots of outdoor activities (Weather Permitting). Following CDC, guidelines, all staff are fully vaccinated, masks will be worn by all participants, and physical distancing will be observed.
All campers must have completed kindergarten. All young campers will be accepted on a provisional basis.
Our experienced staff have ensured a fun and engaging camp atmosphere for over 30 years.
We hope you will join us this Summer!

 ALL STUDENTS MUST BE FULLY VACCINATED

FOR IN PERSON CAMPS AND CLASSES.   

BCS Summer Camp Full Day 9am-5pm

EXPRESS REGISTRATION

BCS Summer Camp Mornings 9am-1pm

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BCS Summer Camp Afternoons 1pm-5pm

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2022 BCS Summer Camp (Online) now open for registration!

Join our fantastic Summer Chess Camp!
Our online summer camp will be fun, engaging and challenging! You can meet new friends who share a love of chess while improving your game and learning new strategies.
Chess is fun and can be learned quickly and easily. Using a combination of Zoom and lichess.org, our instructors first give a lesson, consisting of solving puzzles and learning model games, and afterwards the students play each other in a private online tournament with the instructor supervising and encouraging.
Our experienced staff have ensured a fun and engaging camp atmosphere for over 30 years.
We hope you will join us this Summer! for more information, and to register, click on the link below.

BCS Summer Camp  10am online, Monday- Friday, 10:00am-12:00pm

BCS Summer Camp 1pm online, Monday- Friday, 1:00pm-3:00pm

BCS Summer Camp  3pm online, Monday- Friday, 3:00pm-5:00pm

We also have chess camps in cities nearby. Registration is taken through each city’s Recreation and Parks departments for camps in Benicia, El Cerrito, Orinda, Piedmont, Pleasant Hill, Pleasanton and San Ramon.  In Albany, we will hold chess camp at the UC University Village (register through UC). Schedules for these camps are on hold for now, due to safety concerns around Covid-19. We will be update the schedules as we get more information.

Please Follow this link for information about Chess Camps around the Bay Area!