An average session starts with 10 minutes of friendly warm-up games, then 10-15 minutes tuition on the large demonstration board, and finishes with one club championship game each week, which can last up to half-an-hour.
The club caters for absolute beginners, through county level, and up to budding national champions. Ages have ranged from 5-16, with around 40% of the current membership being girls.

Some of the children will filter through into the highly successful Sussex Junior Chess set-up (www.sussexjuniorchess.org). A couple of seasons ago Sussex won the National Under-11 Team title for the first time. Sussex JC organise a series of seven chess events over the year forming a Grand Prix, along with half-a-dozen special training days.