After losing its longtime clubhouse in Shaw earlier this year, Capital Pool Checkers Association has found a new home.

Later this month, members will move into the basement of a building on Columbia Road in Adams Morgan, ending the organization’s search for a new outpost to keep the club — and the game of checkers — alive in D.C.

The Washington Post first reported the news.

“For the last two months, we have felt like we’ve lost our best friend,” says club president, 90-year-old Tal Roberts (also known by his player name, “Razor”). “Now that we’re getting ready to go into a new space, it feels like a ray of light is coming into our lives.”

The group moved out of their Shaw clubhouse in March, after their landlord decided to sell the property. The building on S Street had been the club’s outpost since the 1980s, when players shifted from matching up in barbers shops to facing off in a space of their own. Roberts began looking for new locations, but some properties offered up monthly rents upwards of $8,000, well beyond the club’s membership-driven budget.

Enter: Higher Achievement, an after school mentoring organization with locations around the D.C. region.

Chief Executive Officer Lynsey Wood Jeffries said she reached out to offer the basement of the organization’s Adams Morgan building to the club after seeing a news article about their search for a new home.

“I thought, this is such a great opportunity to support a piece of the social fabric of Washington, at a time when the social fabric can feel really frayed,” Jeffries says. “And we have a space that’s vacant, and they have a space need, and so I reached out.”

Roberts says being situated in the middle of a bustling street will help the club attract new members, and keep the community excited about checkers — two of the organization’s primary goals as its membership has dwindled in recent years.

“This place has a great deal of possibilities to it — it’s a dense population, there are a lot of people coming by,” Roberts says. “If they see us playing checkers, there’s a good possibility it will be a place to recruit. People will be able to walk in and play checkers if they so desire, so we see this as not only helping ourselves, but helping the community, too.”

Higher Achievement is renting the space out for $700 dollars a month — the same price Capital Checkers paid for its S Street spot, and a sweet deal in a city where affordable rent is hard to come by.

A GoFundMe started at the beginning of Capital Checkers’ search has now raised nearly $18,000 — enough to cover rent for two years.

This post has been updated to include comment from club president Tal Roberts.