How the site is kept
Chess in Stockholm gathers the clubs, chess rooms, tournaments, lessons and other chess places of Stockholm and the municipalities around it into one directory. This page says what is read, how a card is assembled and where the directory stops.
What is covered
The area is the City of Stockholm and the municipalities of Stockholm County where Stockholm players go for a game: Solna, Sundbyberg, Nacka, Huddinge, Botkyrka, Tyresö, Täby, Lidingö, Järfälla, Sigtuna, Vallentuna, Österåker, Ekerö, Upplands Väsby, Södertälje, Nynäshamn and Norrtälje. Place names are written in Swedish as the municipalities write them.
No card is graded, ranked or paid for, and none is promoted over another. Inside a list the cards with the most recent evidence come first; closed or moved places are kept at the bottom of the page with all cards.
What a card is built from
The starting points are the club list of the Stockholm Chess Federation (Stockholms Schackförbund) with its calendar and news, and the member register of the Swedish Chess Federation, which gives each club's playing place. Then come the team-league tables, the FIDE list of rated tournaments for Sweden, the tournament server chess-results.com, and the clubs', venues' and organisers' own websites.
Each fact on a card ends in a small number that leads to the page it came from, with a short quotation in the page's own language, usually Swedish, and the day it was read. The card's text sums up those quotations and adds nothing that no page states.
When pages disagree, for example when the register gives one address and the club site another, the card names both and does not choose between them in silence.
The three source marks
A source is marked official when it comes from the place itself, its organiser or a chess federation; secondary when a third party reports it, such as a directory, a guide or the press; unverified when it comes from users or from a single isolated mention.
The mark tells who is speaking, not whether they are right. A register can still list a club that stopped meeting years ago, which is why the date of each trace counts as much as its mark.
Blank fields stay visible
Few Stockholm clubs publish their fee for adults, and fewer say whether a stranger may walk in on a club evening. When no page answers a question, the card says "not stated by sources" instead of guessing, and a blank never means no.
Anyone who knows a page that fills a gap can send it through the form. It is checked and added, with its date, at the next revision of the directory.
What the directory does not judge
- No club, bar, trainer or tournament gets a grade, a score or a place in a ranking.
- Cards rest on published pages; nobody visits the venues on the directory's behalf.
- Fees are quoted as a page printed them on the day it was read and are not checked on site.
- Club evenings follow the school terms and can change before the card is revised.
- Teaching is not assessed; a trainer's title is only compared with the FIDE profile.
- Accessibility, opening hours of the building and similar practical points are not examined.
- Turnout is not counted: a card cannot tell how many players come on a given evening.
- A blank field says only that no page answered the question; it is never a no.
If a card is about you
Club boards, organisers, trainers, venue staff and members can all correct a card through the suggestion form. A link to a page that shows the right information makes the correction quick.
Every accepted correction is dated in the edit log and noted on the card it concerns. A place that would rather not be listed can say so through the same form, and its card is removed at the next revision.
Dates and revisions
The pages behind the current cards were read between and . The date next to each source on a card shows how old that piece of evidence is.
The whole directory is read again about every 6 months. In between, a club can change its evening or its room before the card catches up; the club's own page always has the final word.
Who is behind it
Chess in Stockholm is an independent editorial project. It takes no money from clubs, organisers, schools, bars or shops, carries no advertising for them and has no tie to any chess federation.
It exists because Stockholm chess is spread over a federation calendar, a national register, tournament servers and dozens of club sites, each holding one piece. The form is how players and clubs keep it right between revisions.
Using the data
The whole directory can be downloaded as a JSON dataset, one record per card with every source, mark and date. It is published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence; please credit Chess in Stockholm when you reuse it.
A plain-text overview of the site for language models and other programs is kept at llms.txt.
Looked at and left out
Entries looked at and not listed: 14. The usual reasons are a club outside the county with no Stockholm link, a single event with no second edition, a venue that hosted one tournament and nothing more, or a group that plays only online.
Map pins
A card shows 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 by search is marked approximate on the card.
No pin is placed by hand, the site draws no map of its own, and the map link opens openstreetmap.org. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, under the Open Database Licence.