World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen is the founder and chairman of Offerspill, Norway's largest chess club.

Welcome to Offerspill Chess Club, Norway's largest chess club with Magnus Carlsen as founder and chairman!

What is Offerspill Chess Club?

Offerspill can be translated to “sacrificing play”. The club was created in June 2019 in the midst of a discussion within the Norwegian Chess Federation concerning a sponsor agreement with the Kindred Group. The agreement with a value of NOK 50 mill was turned down, mainly due to Kindred being a gambling company. Offerspill voiced strong support for the agreement that would have entailed a revolutionary development of chess in Norway. In the aftermath, Offerspill and Kindred proudly announced a collaboration in early 2020, where Kindred became Offerspill's main sponsor for a two year period, with an annual value of NOK 2 million for the club. As chess is not considered a sport (idrett) in Norway, chess does not receive any revenues from the Government, and young talents have few or no options to pursue a professional career. But, together with Kindred this is something Offerspill wants to change.

Offerspill's vision

Chess is more popular in the world than ever. Offerspill has the intention of becoming a club with a broad appeal where talents have a chance to pursue their chess dreams, and hobby players have a varied offer of tournaments, entertainment and education. We want to establish chess as a low threshold activity and more accessible to the masses (especially internet players) via a cheap membership fee, frequent tournaments where one even can play against world champions and low-key entertaining streams with some of the best players in the world. And we want you on the team!

We are a club for everyone, and our ambitions go far beyond Norway. Check out our membership advantages and activities below:

Membership includes

• Access to Offerspill Chess League
  An internal internet chess league with tournaments three times a week
  Gather points, get achievements and cool prizes
  Everyone in one group means that you have the possibility of playing world champions
• Access to weekly streams in English with strong entertaining players
• Frequent training material
• Norwegian chess magazine (!) in the mail 3 times yearly
• A membership fee of 56 Euro yearly (28 EUR the first year!)