Places to play chess on a Thursday 6

Thursday evenings bring several regular chess nights to Lisbon. From early evening the Lisbon Gambit meetup has gathered players at The Royal Gorkha for chess and drinks, with a short tournament with clocks on some nights, and Defuse Cafe in Picoas opens its weekly game night in English, with chess among the games on the shelf. Later, the chess-and-oware section of O Relâmpago takes over Estado de Graça until after midnight.

Across the river in Vila Nova de Caparica, the Peões club runs its youth chess school on Thursday and Tuesday early evenings. A café in the Arroios market was the meetup's Thursday venue before The Royal Gorkha, and Ericeira has held a summer chess day in a park on a Thursday holiday, with free play and a giant board. Holidays and summer breaks interrupt the weekly slots, so check the organiser's page on the day.