Where the listings come from
Stuttgart Chess gathers the chess clubs, junior training, school teams and tournaments of the Region Stuttgart in one place. This page names the area, the pages that are read, how an entry is put together and what it does not say.
The area
The guide covers the Region Stuttgart: the city of Stuttgart with its districts, and the towns of the Böblingen, Esslingen, Göppingen, Ludwigsburg and Rems-Murr counties, from Herrenberg and Weil der Stadt to Geislingen an der Steige, and from Sachsenheim and Murrhardt down to Nürtingen. Inside Stuttgart an entry names the city district its source gives, such as Botnang, Sillenbuch or Vaihingen.
Clubs just outside the region, in Tübingen, Reutlingen, Pforzheim or Heilbronn, stay out even when they share a league with its teams. Nothing is graded or promoted; each list starts with the freshest dated evidence, and places that closed or moved stay at the foot of the full list.
The pages behind an entry
The starting point is schach.in, the club register behind the German Chess Federation's club finder, read club by club. League play is dated by the league portal of the Schachverband Württemberg, which lists every match of the season with its day; tournaments by FIDE's list of rated events in Germany and by the organisers' own pages; club nights, youth training and news by the clubs' websites and by regional newspapers such as the Stuttgarter Zeitung, the Ludwigsburger Kreiszeitung and the Teckbote.
Each fact on an entry carries a small numbered link to its source, where a short quotation in the page's own language, mostly German, and the day the page was read are shown. The entry restates what those quotations say and adds nothing to it. A club without a page of its own is sometimes dated by an opponent's match report, and its entry says so.
Where the register and a club disagree, about the playing room for instance, the club's own page is followed and the difference is noted.
Three source marks
Official: published by the place itself, its organiser or a chess federation. Secondary: published by someone else, such as a register, a newspaper or a city calendar. Unverified: a single mention, or a reader's message, that no second page backs up.
The mark says who is speaking, not whether the statement still holds: a register can keep a club night for years after it ended, so the date of the evidence weighs as much as its origin.
Gaps in the pages
Membership fees, the cost of a guest evening and whether a newcomer can simply turn up are seldom written down by the clubs of the region. Where a source is silent the entry reads "not stated by sources"; a gap never means no.
A link to a page that answers the question can be sent through the form. It is read at the next revision, and the fact then goes in with its date.
What the guide does not judge
- No club, course, school or tournament is graded, scored or ranked.
- Every entry rests on published pages; no one visits the club rooms for the guide.
- A fee appears only as a page printed it on the day it was read.
- Youth groups follow the school year and leagues the season, so both can change between revisions.
- The quality of training is not assessed; a trainer's title is only compared with the FIDE record.
- Step-free access, parking and similar practical points are not covered, except where a page states them.
- Attendance is not counted: an entry cannot say how full a club evening gets.
- An empty answer means the sources are silent, never that the answer is no.
If an entry concerns you
Club boards, youth leaders, tournament organisers, schools and players named in an entry can have it corrected through the form; a link to the page with the right fact makes it quick.
Corrections are dated under list changes and shown on the entry itself. A place that prefers not to be listed can say so in the same form, and its entry is taken out at the next revision.
Dates and revisions
The source pages behind the current entries were all read on , and each source on an entry carries its own date, so the age of every piece of evidence stays visible.
About every 6 months the whole guide is read again. In between, a club can change its room or its evening before the entry follows; the club's own page then has the last word.
Who runs it
Stuttgart Chess is an independent editorial project. No club, organiser, school or venue pays for a place in it, it shows no advertising, and it has no tie to the Schachverband Württemberg, the Württembergische Schachjugend, the German Chess Federation or any club.
It exists because the chess of the region is spread thin across the web: a register here, a league portal there, a rating list, newspaper pages and the websites of the clubs, each showing a part. Between revisions, players and clubs keep it current through the form.
Using the data
The whole guide can be downloaded as a single JSON file, one record per entry with all its sources, marks and dates, under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Anyone reusing it is asked to credit Stuttgart Chess.
Programs and language models will find a plain-text summary at llms.txt.
Read and set aside
Looked at but not listed: 22. The usual reasons are a club or school team with no dated trace of its own from the last two years, a federation championship rather than a place, a tournament held only once, or a series that now sits on its club's entry.
Pins on the map
A pin is shown when a source gives a map position, or when the OpenStreetMap address search finds the address as a building; pins of the second kind are marked approximate. An address without a pin gets a button that searches for it on a map.
No pin is set by hand, and the site draws no maps of its own. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).