How the places are checked
Budapest Chess brings the clubs, tournaments, chess schools and other chess venues of Budapest and its Pest county agglomeration onto one site. This page explains what is read, how an entry is put together and where the directory stops.
Area covered
The area is the capital, every kerület from the I. to the XXIII., and the agglomeration towns of Pest county around it, among them Szentendre, Vác, Göd, Dunakeszi and Fót to the north and Érd, Törökbálint, Budaörs and Dunaharaszti to the south and west. Districts are named as the city names them, with the Roman numeral and the word kerület; town names are written in Hungarian.
Nothing in the directory is rated, ranked or paid for, and no place is moved ahead of another. Within a list, entries with the newest dated evidence come first; places that closed or moved stay at the end of the page that lists every entry.
Where the facts come from
The backbone is the Budapest Chess Federation: its entry lists and strength lists for each season name every club team, its division and its playing hall, and its news pages date them. The Pest County Chess Federation publishes round reports and an address list of halls for the agglomeration clubs. Then come the Hungarian Chess Federation’s calendar, FIDE’s tournament reports, the Hungarian Chess Federation’s club register, the clubs’ and schools’ own sites and a few event listings.
Every fact on an entry ends in a small number that leads to its source: a short quotation in the page’s own language, usually Hungarian, and the day the page was read. The text of an entry summarises those quotations and adds nothing that no page states.
Where two pages disagree, for instance a club’s registered seat and the hall its team plays in, the entry says which is which and does not quietly pick one.
The three source marks
Official means the page comes from the place itself, its organiser or a chess federation; secondary means a third party reports it, such as a directory, a listing site or the press; unverified means a user contribution or a single mention with nothing to support it.
The mark says who is speaking, not whether they are right. A strength list can outlive the season it was made for, which is why the date of a piece of evidence matters as much as its mark.
Gaps in the pages
Few Budapest clubs print a membership fee or say whether a visitor may sit down at a training evening, and many publish only on social media. Where no page answers, the entry reads “not stated by sources”; an empty field never means no.
A page that closes a gap can be sent through the form. It is checked and added, with its date, at the next revision of the directory.
What is not assessed
- No club, school, coach, venue or tournament receives a grade, a score or a place in a ranking.
- Entries rest on published pages; nobody visits the halls on behalf of the directory.
- Fees and entry fees are quoted as a page showed them on the day it was read.
- Training evenings follow the league season and the school year and can change before an entry is revised.
- The quality of teaching is not judged; a coach’s title is only compared with the FIDE profile.
- Step-free access, building opening hours and similar practical details are not examined.
- Nobody counts heads at the board, so an entry cannot tell how full a training night or a round gets.
- A blank line under a heading means the pages were silent on it, never that the answer is no.
If an entry concerns you
Club officials, organisers, coaches, venue staff and players can correct an entry through the form for clubs and tournaments. A link to a page that shows the right fact makes the change quick.
Every accepted correction is dated in the update record and noted on the entry concerned. 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 from to . The date next to each source 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 hall or its evening before the entry catches up; the club’s own page has the last word.
Who runs it
Budapest Chess is an independent editorial project. It takes no money from clubs, organisers, schools, bars or shops, carries no advertising and has no tie to the Budapest Chess Federation, the Hungarian Chess Federation or any club.
It exists because chess in and around Budapest is spread over federation spreadsheets, a rating database, a national calendar and dozens of club sites that each hold one piece. The form is how players and clubs keep it accurate between revisions.
Reusing the data
The whole directory is available 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 Budapest Chess when reusing it.
For language models and other software, a plain-text outline of Budapest Chess is available at llms.txt.
Checked and left out
Places checked and not listed: 16. The usual reasons are a club with no dated trace in the last two years, a bar or café where no page shows chess actually played, a venue that hosted a single event, 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, available under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).