How the entries are sourced

The area covered

The directory covers the municipalities of Copenhagen and Frederiksberg and the capital-area municipalities around them, among them Gentofte, Gladsaxe, Lyngby-Taarbæk, Herlev, Rødovre, Hvidovre, Brøndby, Ballerup, Ishøj, Høje-Taastrup, Furesø and Rudersdal. Inside Copenhagen an entry names its district, such as Nørrebro, Østerbro, Amager or Valby; place names keep their Danish spelling.

Nothing here is rated, ranked or paid for, and no entry is pushed ahead of another. In each list the entries with the newest evidence come first; places that closed or moved are kept at the end of the page with every entry.

Where the facts come from

The backbone is the club register of the Danish Chess Union, which gives each club of the Copenhagen district an address, a playing venue and a playing day. The clubs' own websites add club nights, junior training, fees and dated news; the site of Københavns Skak Union adds its championships, team league and junior events; the FIDE list of rated tournaments dates the club series; the pages of Dansk Skoleskak and Skakkens Hus add school chess, courses, the chess café and the shop.

Every fact on an entry ends in a small numbered link to its source, which carries a short quotation in the language of that page, usually Danish, and the day it was read. The text of an entry only sums up those quotations and adds nothing that no page says.

When two pages disagree, say a club's calendar and its about page on the hour of junior training, the entry follows the more specific page.

How sources are marked

Official: the page comes from the place itself, its organiser or a chess body such as the union. Secondary: someone else reports it, for example a calendar, a listing or a newspaper. Unverified: a single mention that nothing else backs.

The mark tells who is speaking, not whether they are right. A register entry can outlive the club night it describes, so the date of a piece of evidence matters as much as its mark.

What the pages leave open

Many Copenhagen clubs publish their fee, but fewer say whether a stranger may simply turn up, and almost none say in which language training is given. Where no page answers, the entry says "not stated by sources"; a blank never means no.

If you know a page that settles one of these questions, send the link through the form; at the next revision it is read and added with its date.

What is not judged

• No club, school, coach, café or tournament is graded, scored or ranked.
• Entries rest on published pages; no one visits the venues for the directory.
• Fees and entry fees are quoted as a page printed them on the day it was read, not checked at the door.
• Club nights follow the season and the school year and may change before an entry is revised.
• Teaching is not graded; a title a coach claims is checked against the FIDE profile and nothing more.
• Step-free access, building hours and similar practical details are not examined.
• Turnout is not counted, so an entry cannot say how many players come on a given night.
• An empty field means only that no page answered the question; it is never a no.

If an entry is about you

Club boards, organisers, coaches, shop and café staff and players can correct an entry through the form. A link to a page that shows the right fact makes the change quick.

Every accepted correction is dated in the list of changes and noted on the entry concerned. A place that does not wish to be listed can say so through the same form, and its entry comes down at the next revision.

Dates and revisions

The pages behind the current entries were all read on 23 October 2026; every source on an entry also shows its own reading date, so the age of each piece of evidence stays visible.

The whole directory is read again roughly every 6 months. In between, a club may move to another room or weekday before its entry catches up; the club's own page has the last word.

Who is behind it

Copenhagen Chess is an independent editorial project. It takes no money from clubs, organisers, schools, cafés or shops, carries no advertising and has no tie to the Danish Chess Union, Københavns Skak Union, Dansk Skoleskak or any club.

It exists because chess around Copenhagen is spread over a union register, club websites, a rating list, a school-chess organisation and a few open salons, each holding part of the picture. The form is how players and clubs keep it current between revisions.

Reusing the data

The full 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 Copenhagen Chess when you reuse it.

For language models and other programs, a plain-text summary of Copenhagen Chess sits at llms.txt.

Looked at and left out

Places looked at and left out: 16. The usual reasons are a club outside the area described above, a tournament with a single dated edition, a café or bar with no dated sign of chess, or a newest trace more than two years old.

Map pins

An entry gets a pin when a source gives a map position or when its address is matched to a building in the OpenStreetMap address search; a pin found that way is marked approximate. An address without a pin gets a map button that searches for the address instead.

No pin is placed by hand and the site draws no map of its own. Map data comes from OpenStreetMap contributors and is available under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).