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체스프릭 모임

An offline chess community that began in 2015, was listed as a Friday meetup in Wangsimni in 2016, and later appeared at venues elsewhere in Seoul and in Seongnam. Its culture was shaped by a simple rule: respect every player and rotate opponents.

A 2015 start and Friday meetings in Wangsimni

Kim Changhoon's retrospective dates the start of the Chessfreak meetup to June 2015. In September 2016, it was holding regular Friday gatherings at Wangsimni Station in Seoul, with in-person play already defining its format.

By 2022, Candidate Master Kim Changhoon was running the meetup near Maebong Station in Seoul. In 2026, Chessfreak held offline gatherings at Chessfreak EPA in Sujeong-gu, Seongnam.

A format that outlasted the venue

The address changed from Wangsimni to Maebong and later Seongnam, but the Chessfreak name and emphasis on over-the-board play remained. Its continuity rests on a repeatable gathering format rather than one permanent clubhouse.

The 2022 rules asked participants to show mutual respect and good manners, and to rotate through opponents instead of choosing only whom they wanted to play. That arrangement mixes the room and makes social contact part of the chess.

Competitive experience in a community setting

FIDE awarded Kim the Candidate Master title in 2014, the same year he represented South Korea in the open section of the Chess Olympiad. His playing record is directly connected to the offline meetup he was running in 2022.

Sources

  1. 1.프릭모임은 2015년 6월에 시작했어요, 체스프릭김창훈
  2. 2.[금요일, 정기, 서울 왕십리역]체스프릭 모임 안내, 체스이글루
  3. 3.체스프릭 체스 모임 안내, Chess.com
  4. 4.체스프릭, 체스프릭
  5. 5.체스프릭 모임 (@chessfreak_club), 체스프릭 모임
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  1. 6.[6월13일] 체스프릭 모임 (중학생~성인), 체스프릭
  2. 7.Kim, Changhoon FIDE Profile, International Chess Federation
  3. 8.41st Chess Olympiad 2014 Open, Chess-Results

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