CAN you beat a chess opponent in two moves? Have you ever played computer games into the small hours? Do you own any stamps you don’t use for posting birthday cards?

If the answer to any of these questions is yes, you should feel right at home in Dartford and Gravesend, one of the nation’s nerd hotspots.

Local information website, locallife.co.uk, says the area is a geek paradise. Its research suggests the two boroughs have more nerdy businesses and organisations per head than almost anywhere else in the UK.

According to the website, the area has a chess club, library, model shop, online dating agency, stamp collecting club or computer game outlet for every 6,275 residents – the third best ratio in the country.

Southampton finished top of the nerd league table, with each nerdy business serving 5,390 people, and Bournemouth second, with a nerdy business for every 6,255 residents.

And if north Kent was not side-parting, anorak or spectacle-friendly enough, Ebbsfleet International Station is sure to create another geek magnet, the website claims.

If the prediction is correct, passengers could soon have to fight their way past thermos flasks and jam sandwiches owned by notepad-weilding spotters seeking the Holy Grail of trainspotting - to see every train in the country.

Locallife.co.uk said the station, which is expected to see 18,000 trains each year, is destined to be a trainspotting mecca to rival Clapham Junction, top of Britain’s trainspotting table and the country’s busiest station.

Tony Martin, chairman of locallife.co.uk, said: "Dartford and Gravesend residents have discovered their inner nerd and the area is now ‘geek chic.’