How entries are checked
Prague Chess brings the chess clubs, tournaments, youth training and public boards of Prague and a few nearby towns together on one site. This page sets out what is read, how an entry is put together and where the guide stops.
The area covered
The guide covers the capital city of Prague, all of its numbered districts and the quarters inside them, such as Karlín, Krč or Dejvice, and three towns of Central Bohemia whose clubs play in or next to the Prague competitions: Kralupy nad Vltavou, Čelákovice and Říčany. Places are named as the Czech pages write them; a district appears either as Praha 6 or by its quarter, as the source gives it.
Nothing is graded or ranked, and no listing is paid for or pushed forward. Every list starts with the entries whose evidence is newest; places that have closed or moved stay at the end of the page that shows everything.
Where the facts come from
The backbone is the Prague Chess Federation, Pražský šachový svaz: its map of club halls, its calendar of events with a page for each, its competition calendar and the final report of each team season. The FIDE list of rated tournaments dates the festivals, opens and club championships. The clubs' own news pages, school and district pages fill in playing days, training groups and fees.
Each fact on an entry ends in a small numbered link to its source, where a short quotation in the page's own language, mostly Czech, stands next to the day it was read. The entry text only summarises those quotations and adds nothing that no page says.
When two pages disagree, for example the federation's map and a club's own page on where it plays, the entry follows the club's page and says so, rather than choosing silently.
How sources are marked
Official: the page belongs to the place, its organiser or a chess body. Secondary: someone else reports it, such as a calendar, a listing or a newspaper. Unverified: a single mention or a contribution nobody else confirms.
The mark tells you who is speaking, not whether they are right. A league table can outlive a club's training evening, which is why the date of the evidence counts as much as its mark.
What the pages leave open
Few Prague clubs print a membership fee, and fewer say whether a visitor may simply sit down on a club evening. Where no page answers, the entry says "not stated by sources"; an empty field never means no.
If you know a page that answers one of these questions, send its link through the form. It is checked at the next revision and added with its date.
What is not judged
- No club, tournament, school, coach, bar or café is graded, scored or ranked.
- Every entry is built from published pages; no one from the guide goes to the halls in person.
- Membership dues and tournament entry fees appear exactly as their page printed them on the reading day.
- Training groups follow the school year and league rounds the season; either can change before an entry is revised.
- The quality of coaching is not assessed; a stated title is only compared with the FIDE record.
- Whether a hall has step-free access, when its building opens and similar practical points go unexamined.
- Turnout is not counted: an entry cannot say how many players come on a given day.
- An empty field means that no page answered the question, not that the answer is no.
If an entry concerns you
Club committees, organisers, coaches, schools, bar and café staff and players can correct an entry through the proposal form. A link to a page that shows the right fact makes the change quick.
Each accepted correction is dated in the record of edits and noted on the entry it changes. 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 on , and every source on an entry shows its own reading date, so you can always see how old a piece of evidence is.
The whole guide is read again about every 6 months. In between, a club may change hall or weekday before its entry catches up; the club's own page has the final word.
Who runs it
Prague Chess is an independent editorial project. It takes no money from clubs, organisers, schools, bars, cafés or shops, carries no advertising and has no tie to the Prague Chess Federation, the Czech Chess Federation or any club.
It exists because Prague chess is scattered across a federation map, a long event calendar, league reports, a rating list and dozens of club pages, each holding one piece. The proposal form is how players and clubs keep it current between revisions.
Reusing the data
The whole guide can be downloaded as a JSON file, one record per entry with every source, mark and date, under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Please credit Prague Chess when you reuse it.
A plain-text outline of Prague Chess for language models and other software is at llms.txt.
Considered and left out
Places considered and left out: 8. 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 without a name or a second source.
Map pins
An entry gets a pin when a source gives a map position, or when its address is found as a building in the OpenStreetMap address search; a pin found that way is marked approximate. Where an address has no pin, the map button searches for the address instead.
No pin is placed by hand and the site draws no map of its own. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).