How places get listed

Area and scope

The area is the city of Wrocław, with the neighbourhood (osiedle) where a source names one, and these towns of the county and the next counties by name: Siechnice, Kobierzyce, Kąty Wrocławskie, Długołęka, Czernica, Żórawina, Oborniki Śląskie, Oława, Trzebnica and Środa Śląska. Each entry shows its town.

Nothing is rated, ranked or paid for, and no entry is placed ahead of another by choice. Every list begins with the newest dated trace; places that closed or moved come last on the full list.

What an entry rests on

The starting points are the Polish Chess Federation’s central register of clubs for Lower Silesia and the FIDE list of rated tournaments, grouped into series by title and organiser. Then come the clubs’ own sites, the announcements of the Lower Silesian Chess Association, the ChessArbiter and ChessPoint tournament pages and the city’s events calendar.

Culture centres, schools and kindergartens enter through their own pages or through the programme pages of the chess school that teaches there. A tournament with one title and one organiser is kept as a single series, citing its latest edition and some earlier ones.

Each fact ends in a small number linking to its source, with a short quotation in the page’s own language and the day it was read. Where pages contradict each other, the entry reports both and names each page.

What the marks mean

Official: the page belongs to the place, to whoever runs it, or to a chess federation. Secondary: a third party reports it, for instance a tournament server, a city calendar or a newspaper. Unverified: the claim rests on posts by users or on one passing mention.

The mark names the speaker; it does not vouch for the content. A club that appears only in the federation register is affiliated, which does not prove it meets this season, so such an entry reads as not confirmed.

Blank fields

Wrocław clubs usually publish their tournament calendars and less often their fees, and few say whether a visitor can simply sit down for a game. Tournaments known from the FIDE list rarely give a street address. When no page answers, the entry says “not stated by sources”: a blank never means no.

Anyone holding a page that fills such a gap can pass it on through the form; at the next revision it is verified, given its date and added.

What the index does not judge

• No club, school, coach or tournament is graded, scored or ranked.
• Entries come from published pages; nobody visits the halls or clubs on behalf of the index.
• A fee is quoted as the page printed it on the reading day; it may be different now.
• Kindergarten and school timetables change every September and can run ahead of an entry.
• Coaching quality is outside the index; for coaches, only titles are compared with the FIDE database.
• Stairs, lifts, parking, heating and similar practical details are not checked.
• Turnout is not counted, so no entry says how busy a tournament or a club evening is.
• A line in the federation register shows membership, not that a club is playing today.

If an entry concerns you

Clubs, organisers, coaches, schools, parents and players can correct an entry through the form for clubs and tournaments. A link to a page showing the right information speeds things up.

Every accepted correction is dated in the revision log and noted on the entry itself. Clubs or people who prefer to stay off the index can ask through the same form; their entry goes at the next revision.

When the pages were read

Every source behind the current entries carries the day its page was read; the latest of those readings is dated 23 October 2026, and thanks to these dates the age of every piece of evidence stays in view.

The whole index is due for a fresh reading about every 6 months. Meanwhile a club may move rooms or switch days ahead of its entry, and what the organiser publishes then prevails.

Who is behind it

Wrocław Chess is an independent editorial project. It accepts no money from clubs, schools, organisers or venues, carries no advertising for them, and has no tie to the Polish Chess Federation or the Lower Silesian Chess Association.

It exists because Wrocław chess is spread over a federation register, a regional association’s announcements, the FIDE list, two tournament servers and many club, school and culture-centre pages, each holding one piece. Between revisions, the form lets players and organisers keep it true.

Reusing the data

The whole index can be downloaded as a JSON dataset, in which each entry is a record carrying all its sources, marks and reading dates. Reuse is free under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, with Wrocław Chess named as the source.

For language models and other software, llms.txt gives a plain-text outline of Wrocław Chess.

Considered and left out

Entries considered and not listed: 14. Among them are halls and hotels that hosted a single tournament, one-off events with no second edition, outdoor tables known only from map marks, shogi events, clubs based outside the covered towns, and a Grand Prix of another city whose name the FIDE list prints much like Wrocław’s.

Map positions

An entry gets a map position only when its address was found as a building in the OpenStreetMap address search, or when a source itself gives a position; positions from the search are marked approximate. An entry with an address but no position has a button that looks the address up on a map.

Positions are never set by hand, and Wrocław Chess draws no map of its own; the map data is © OpenStreetMap contributors under the Open Database Licence.