Places to play chess for free 11

Free chess around Lisbon starts with the public tables in Campo Grande, Quinta das Conchas, the Olivais urban park, the Vale do Silêncio, Bela Vista, Rio Seco and the square in front of a school in Areeiro. The city council set them up for anyone to use: bring a set and, for a timed game, a clock.

Indoors, a chess society holds evenings at the Musa brewery bars in Bica and Marvila, where admission is always free, and the roaming Pieces Chess Club has thrown a social chess party with a DJ at Duro de Matar in Beato, with entry by voluntary donation. Across the river, the Barreiro tournament circuit takes free registration at the hall for each of its Sunday-afternoon stages, held at a different local club each time from winter to early summer. At a bar, free entry still usually means buying a drink.