How we verify
Kraków Chess gathers the clubs, tournaments, classes, school teams and evening tables of Kraków and the towns around it. This page explains which pages are read for an entry, how each fact is marked and dated, and where the guide ends.
What the guide covers
The area is the city of Kraków, with its districts named where a page gives them, and the neighbouring communes of Wieliczka, Skawina, Niepołomice, Zabierzów, Zielonki, Michałowice, Mogilany, Liszki and Kocmyrzów-Luborzyca. An entry shows the town, and inside Kraków the district when a source names it.
No entry is rated, ranked or paid for, and none is placed ahead of another. Inside every list the entries with the newest dated trace come first; closed or moved places stay at the end of the full list.
What is read for an entry
The starting point is the central register of the Polish Chess Federation for the Małopolska union, which names each affiliated club and its town, and the event and news pages of the Małopolska chess association. Club, school and culture-centre sites come next: in Kraków they often publish a full timetable for the school year.
Tournaments are traced through the FIDE list of rated tournaments, the chess-results server and the ChessPoint listing. Events with the same title and organiser are kept together as one series, and the entry cites the newest and the earlier editions found.
Every fact ends in a small number that leads to its source, with a short quotation in the language of that page and the day the page was opened. Where two sources disagree, for example on the town of a tournament, the entry says which page says what.
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 tournament server, a listing site or the press; and unverified when it rests on users or on a single passing mention.
The mark says who is speaking, not whether they are right. A line in the federation register shows that a club is affiliated, not that it meets this week, so a club known only from the register is shown as unconfirmed.
What stays blank
Many Kraków clubs publish a timetable but not a fee, and few say whether a visitor may drop in for a single evening. Street addresses are missing for clubs that appear only in the register or on the tournament servers. Where no page answers, the entry reads “not stated by sources”; a blank never means no.
Anyone who knows of a page that fills such a gap can point to it through the form; it is checked, dated and added when the guide is next revised.
What the guide does not judge
- No club, school, coach or tournament receives a grade, a score or a place in a ranking.
- Entries rest on published pages; nobody visits the club rooms or the halls for the guide.
- Fees are copied as printed on the day the page was opened and may have changed since.
- School-year timetables are rewritten every September and can change before an entry does.
- The quality of teaching is not judged, and a coach’s title is only compared with the FIDE database.
- Stairs, lifts, heating, parking and similar practical details are not checked.
- Nobody counts who turns up, so no entry says how busy a club evening is.
- Affiliation in the federation register proves membership, not that a club plays today.
If an entry concerns you
Club officials, organisers, coaches, parents and players can correct an entry through the form for clubs and schools. A link to a page that shows the right information makes the change quick.
Every accepted correction is dated in the change history and noted in the entry concerned. A club or person that prefers not to be listed can say so through the same form, and the entry is removed at the next revision.
Dates and revisions
The pages that support the current entries were opened from to ; each source carries its own date, so the age of every piece of evidence stays visible.
The whole guide is due to be read again about every 6 months. Between revisions a club may change its room or its days before its entry follows; the organiser’s own page always has the last word.
Who is behind it
Kraków Chess is an independent editorial project. It takes no money from clubs, schools, organisers or venues, carries no advertising for them, and is not connected with the Polish Chess Federation or the Małopolska chess association.
It exists because Kraków chess is spread over a federation register, a regional calendar, several tournament listings and many club and school sites, each holding one piece of the whole. The form is how players and clubs can keep it right between revisions.
Reusing the data
The full guide can be downloaded as a JSON dataset, one record per entry with every source, mark and date. It is published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence; please name Kraków Chess when you reuse it.
For language models and other software, a plain-text outline of the site is available at llms.txt.
Looked at and left out
Entries looked at and not listed: 13. Most are halls and schools that hosted a single tournament, events held outside the Kraków area, and organisers with no recurring activity of their own here.
Map pins
An entry gets a pin only when its address was found as a building in the OpenStreetMap address search, or when a source gives a map position; a pin found by search is marked approximate. An entry with an address and no pin has a button that searches the address on a map.
No pin is placed by hand, and the site has no map of its own. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, under the Open Database Licence.