The club, housed in the famous Gorky Sadan, Kolkata courtesy the then Soviet Union, and named after the former world champion, Alexander Alekhine, was launched by a few chess enthusiasts on 26th February 1976.

Since inception, the club took active role to strengthen Indo-Russian Friendship and is imparting the education on chess to young children and also started organizing different level of tournaments including schools' chess championships, world youth international, grandmasters' chess, rapid chess and many other events - it is a record that more than 200 grand masters took part in different events organized by the club at Gorky Sadan, Kolkata.

35th Anniversary of Gorky Sadan - The club celebrated it with a rapid Chess Tournament and The Secretary of the Club was invited at the presidium on 22nd April 2009 where His Excellency Mr V.I. Trubnikov, Ambassador of Russian Federation in India, Mr Rozovsky, Head of Science and Culture of Russian Federation in India, Mr Lazarev, Consul General of Russian Federation in Kolkata, Mr A. Mazirka, The Director of Gorky Sadan and other guests were present to share their experience and knowledge on The Russian Centre of Science and Culture in Kolkata at Gorky Sadan.