Cafés and bars with chess in Bangkok 5

Board-game cafés and bars with chess. In some, chess is one game among many on the shelf; in others, a group meets on a set evening. The Red Knight Chess Cafe in Khlong Toei is built around the game, with a casual blitz evening on Saturdays, a blitz hour for children before it and a midweek morning of free play over coffee.

Elsewhere chess is a side attraction: the board-game cafés near Chulalongkorn University, in MBK Center and on Sukhumvit in Watthana are mainly about other games, and a café in Sathon has hosted a chess social with DJs. A café may expect you to order rather than charge entry, and café chess changes hands and venues easily, so a message to the café before you plan an evening around it saves a wasted trip.