Where each entry comes from

The area

The guide covers the city of Leipzig with the Landkreis Leipzig and Nordsachsen in Saxony, and the city of Halle (Saale) with the Saalekreis in Saxony-Anhalt. It reaches from Torgau and Oschatz in the north-east over Taucha, Krostitz and Grimma to Groitzsch, Frohburg and the lake district south of Leipzig, and from Petersberg and Teutschenthal to Merseburg and Bad Dürrenberg on the Saale. Each entry names its town, and inside the two cities the district where a page gives one.

The Burgenlandkreis, Mansfeld-Südharz, Anhalt-Bitterfeld, Wittenberg and the rest of Saxony lie outside it. No entry is graded or paid for; every list starts with the entry whose dated trace is newest, and closed or moved places stand last on the full list.

What an entry rests on

Clubs start from the federations: the nuLiga league portal of the Schachverband Sachsen for the Saxon side and the results portal of the Landesschachverband Sachsen-Anhalt for Halle and the Saalekreis. Most clubs have a match there from the opening rounds of the 2026/27 season; a club whose last trace is older shows as not confirmed. Clubs with a site of their own, or with notices in a town gazette, were read for dated news and weekly times.

Open meetings and senior rounds come from city event calendars, neighbourhood platforms and the monthly programmes of the meeting places; courses from the Volkshochschule, the university sports centre and the Schachschule; school AGs from the all-day offer lists the schools publish each year. A tournament a club holds only for its own members stays on that club’s entry.

Each fact ends in a small number that leads to its source, where a short quotation in the page’s language and the day it was read are given. Where two pages disagree, both are quoted.

The three marks

Every source carries one mark. Official: the club, school, meeting place, organiser or a federation published it. Secondary: someone else reports it, such as a league portal, an event calendar, a newspaper or a city page. Unverified: it rests on users’ posts or a single passing mention.

A mark says who is speaking, not whether the page is right. A register entry shows only that a club exists on paper, so an entry with nothing newer reads as not confirmed.

What the pages seldom say

League fixtures and weekly evenings are easy to find here; membership fees, and whether a visitor may simply turn up at a club, are rarely written down. Senior meeting places print a new programme every month or two, and school AGs change with each school year. A detail no page gives reads “not given in the sources”, which never means no.

Anyone who has a page that settles one of these points can send it through the form; it is read and dated at the next revision.

What the guide does not judge

• Clubs, meetings, courses, school AGs and tournaments are listed, never rated or ranked.
• Every fact comes from a page anyone can open; nobody visited the rooms.
• Fees are shown as the pages printed them on the day they were read.
• Weekly times and AG slots move with the seasons and the school years.
• Teaching quality is not judged; a stated title is only checked against the FIDE database.
• Step-free access, parking and the state of the rooms were not checked.
• Nothing here counts heads, so no entry says how busy an evening is.
• Being registered says little: only a dated page shows that a club still meets.

If you are listed

Clubs, schools, meeting places, organisers, trainers, parents and players can correct any entry through the form. A link to a page that shows the right detail makes the check quick.

Accepted corrections are dated in the list of edits and appear on the entry itself. Anyone who does not want a place listed can say so through the same form; the entry is taken down at the next revision.

When the pages were read

The pages behind the entries now online were opened between 27 October 2026 and 28 October 2026; each source shows the day it was read, so nobody has to guess how old a fact is.

The whole guide is collected afresh roughly every 6 months. Between two rounds a club can move or a meeting place can drop its chess hour before the list notices, so the place’s own page takes precedence over this one.

Who is behind it

Leipzig Chess is an independent editorial project. No place pays to be listed, there is no advertising, and the guide has no tie to the German Chess Federation, the Schachverband Sachsen, the Landesschachverband Sachsen-Anhalt or any club.

It exists because chess in these two cities is spread across two league portals, monthly programmes, event calendars, school lists and dozens of club sites, each holding one piece. Between revisions the form lets players and clubs keep it accurate.

Reusing the data

The whole guide is also published as a JSON dataset, one record per entry with every source, mark and date, under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0: reuse it freely with credit to Leipzig Chess.

A plain-text summary for language models and other software sits at llms.txt.

Looked at, left out

Candidates checked and not listed: 45. Most are school AGs whose pages carry no date or only last year’s list, clubs with no team and no dated page, events folded into the club or organiser that runs them, and places outside the three counties.

Points on the map

A map point is shown only when the entry’s address matched a building in the OpenStreetMap address search, or when a source page gives one, and it is always marked approximate. An address without a point gets a button that opens a map search instead.

No point is placed by hand and the site draws no map of its own. The map data belongs to the OpenStreetMap contributors and is shared under the Open Database Licence.