How the listing is sourced
Munich Chess brings the clubs, tournaments, training groups and other chess venues of Munich and its Umland together on one site. This page describes what is read, how an entry is assembled and where the directory stops.
Area covered
The area is the city of Munich, the municipalities of the Landkreis München, and the towns of Dachau, Freising, Fürstenfeldbruck, Germering and Erding, where many Munich players go for a club evening or a tournament. Clubs further out that belong to the Munich district, in Poing or Markt Schwaben for instance, are left out. Place names are written in German, as the municipalities write them.
Nothing in the directory is rated, ranked or paid for, and no place is moved up ahead of another. In each list the entries with the most recent evidence come first; places that have closed or moved stay at the end of the page that lists every entry.
Where the facts come from
The starting point is the club register of the Schachbezirk München, which gives each club its room, its club evening and its youth training, and the district's pages on its championships and the team league. Then come the club finder of the Deutscher Schachbund, the FIDE list of rated tournaments, the school chess pages, Meetup listings, the programme of the Münchner Stadtbibliothek and the websites of the clubs, organisers and venues themselves.
Every fact on an entry ends in a small number that leads to its source: a short quotation in the page's own language, mostly German, and the day the page was read. The text of an entry sums up those quotations and adds nothing that no page says.
Where two pages disagree, for instance the district register and a club's own site on the day of its club evening, the entry gives both and does not quietly choose one.
The three source marks
Official means the page comes from the place itself, its organiser or a chess body; secondary means a third party reports it, such as a directory, a listing site or a newspaper; unverified means a user contribution or a lone mention with nothing to back it.
The mark tells you who is speaking, not whether they are right. A register line can outlast the club evening it describes, which is why the date of a piece of evidence matters as much as its mark.
Gaps in the pages
Few Munich clubs print their annual fee, and fewer say outright whether a stranger may sit down at a club evening. Where no page answers, the entry reads "not stated by sources"; a blank field never means no.
If you know a page that closes a gap, send it through the form. It is checked and added, with its date, at the next revision of the directory.
What is not assessed
- No club, bar, school, trainer or tournament receives a grade, a score or a place in a ranking.
- Entries rest on published pages; nobody visits the venues on behalf of the directory.
- Fees and entry fees are quoted as a page showed them on the day it was read and are not checked on site.
- Club evenings follow the season of the team championship and the school year, and may change before an entry is revised.
- The quality of teaching is not judged; a trainer's title is only compared with the FIDE profile.
- Step-free access, opening hours of the building and similar practical points are not examined.
- Attendance is not counted: an entry cannot say how many players turn up on a given evening.
- A blank field only means that no page answered; it is not a no.
If an entry concerns you
Club boards, tournament organisers, trainers, venue staff and members can correct an entry through the submission form. A link to a page that shows the right fact makes the change quick.
Every accepted correction is dated in the listing history and noted on the entry it concerns. A place that would rather not be listed can say so through the same form, and its entry is removed at the next revision.
Dates and revisions
The pages behind the current entries were read between and . The date beside each source on an entry shows how old that piece of evidence is.
The whole directory is read again about every 6 months. In between, a club may change its evening or its room before the entry catches up; the club's own page has the final say.
Who is behind it
Munich Chess is an independent editorial project. It takes no money from clubs, organisers, schools, bars or shops, shows no advertising and has no tie to the Schachbezirk München, the Bayerischer Schachbund or any club.
It exists because chess around Munich is spread over a district register, a rating list, a tournament centre's calendar, Meetup groups and dozens of club sites that each hold one piece. The submission form is how players and clubs keep it accurate between revisions.
Reusing the data
The whole directory can be downloaded as a JSON file: one record per entry with every source, mark and date. It is published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence; please credit Munich Chess when you reuse it.
For language models and other software, a plain-text outline of Munich Chess is available at llms.txt.
Checked and not listed
Entries checked and left out: 14. The usual reasons are a club in a town outside the area above, a tournament with a single dated edition, an event whose newest trace is more than two years old, or a map mark with no name and no second source.
Map markers
An entry carries a marker when a source gives a map position or when its address is found as a building in the OpenStreetMap address search. A marker found by search is labelled approximate. Where an address has no marker, the map button searches for the address instead.
No marker is placed by hand, and the site draws no map of its own. Map data is © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).