Editorial policy
Bucharest Chess gathers the clubs, academies, tournament series, chess evenings and associations of Bucharest and Ilfov County. This page sets out what is read for each card, how its facts are marked and dated, and where the directory stops.
What the directory covers
The area is the Municipality of Bucharest, with its six sectors, and Ilfov County around it: Otopeni, Snagov, Chitila, Pantelimon, Buftea, Ciorogârla, Mogoșoaia and the other towns where clubs of the capital region are registered. Inside the city, a card names its sector wherever a page gives one.
No card is graded, ranked or paid for, and none is promoted over another. Within a list, cards whose chess was confirmed most recently come first, and closed or moved places are kept at the end of the full list.
What is read for a card
The starting point is the club register of the Romanian chess federation, which names every affiliated club of Bucharest and Ilfov with its seat and its yearly visas. Many seats in the register are the private flats of club officers; those addresses are not reproduced, and such cards carry no street.
Next comes the chess-results tournament server, searched by place and by organiser. Its search rows give the organiser and the hall of each event, while the tournament pages themselves often print only a title, and the cards say so. Then come the own sites of clubs and academies, the pages of the municipal association, a press interview and event pages.
Every fact on a card ends in a small number that leads to its source, with a short quotation in the language of the page and the day the page was read. When two pages disagree, for example a seat in the register and the hall of a tournament, the card shows both and names which page says what.
Source marks
A source is marked official when it comes from the place, its organiser or a federation; secondary when a third party reports it, such as the press or a listing site; unverified when it rests on users or on one isolated mention.
The mark says who is speaking, not whether they are right. A yearly visa in the register shows that a club is affiliated, not that it plays; a club known only from the register is therefore marked unconfirmed.
Gaps left visible
Few Bucharest clubs publish a fee, a room or a weekly hour, and almost none says whether a visitor may simply turn up. Where no page answers, the card shows “not stated by sources”; an empty field never means no.
A reader 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.
What the directory does not assess
- No club, academy, coach or tournament is given a grade, a score or a rank.
- Cards rest on published pages; nobody visits the halls on behalf of the directory.
- Fees are copied as printed on the day the page was read and may since have changed.
- Timetables follow the school year and can move before a card is revised.
- Teaching quality is not judged, and a coach’s title is only compared with the FIDE profile.
- Lifts, steps, heating, parking and other practical matters are not looked into.
- Attendance is not counted: a card cannot say how many players come.
- A register entry proves affiliation, not that a club meets today.
If a card is about you
Club officers, organisers, coaches, parents and players can correct a card through the report or suggest form. A link to a page that shows the right information makes the change quick.
Every accepted correction is dated under changes made and noted on the card concerned. A club or person who would rather not be listed can say so through the same form, and the card is removed at the next revision.
Dates and revisions
The pages behind the present cards were read between and . The date beside each source shows how old that piece of evidence is.
The whole directory is due to be read again about every 6 months. Between revisions a club may change its hall or its timetable before its card follows; the club’s own page always has the last word.
Who is behind it
Bucharest Chess is an independent editorial project. It takes no money from clubs, academies, organisers or venues, carries no advertising for them, and has no tie to the Romanian chess federation or to the municipal association.
It exists because chess in Bucharest is scattered across a federation register, a tournament server and dozens of club sites, each showing one piece of the picture. The form is how players and clubs can keep it right between revisions.
Reusing 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 name Bucharest Chess when you reuse it.
For language models and other programs, a plain-text outline of the site sits at llms.txt.
Looked at and left out
Entries considered and not listed: 75. Most are clubs struck off the federation register with no other trace; the rest are one-off events, halls that hosted a single tournament, online-only shops and series, and a few places outside Bucharest and Ilfov.
Map pins
A card shows 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. Few Bucharest cards have one, because many addresses are withheld or name only a sector.
Pins are never set by hand and the site has no map of its own; the map link leads to openstreetmap.org. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database Licence.