Sources and method

Area covered

The area is the City of Belgrade: the urban municipalities from Zemun, Novi Beograd and Čukarica to Stari grad, Vračar, Savski venac, Palilula, Zvezdara, Voždovac and Rakovica, and the outer municipalities of Surčin, Grocka, Lazarevac, Mladenovac, Obrenovac, Barajevo and Sopot. Club and tournament names are written the way their organisers write them, with the Serbian diacritics.

No listing is graded, ranked or paid for. Within each list the entries with the most recent evidence come first; places that closed or moved stay at the end of the page that shows every listing.

Where the facts come from

Most Belgrade clubs publish little about themselves, so the guide leans on the records their events leave: the FIDE list of rated tournaments for Serbia, the chess-results tournament server with its organiser and venue lines, the PlanPlus business directory of Belgrade chess clubs, a few press reports, and the websites of the clubs that keep one, among them PTT Beograd, Red Star and Vidikovac.

Each fact ends in a small number that leads to its source: a short quotation in the language of the page, mostly Serbian in Latin or Cyrillic script, with the day the page was read. The text of a listing sums up those quotations and adds nothing they do not say.

When two pages disagree, for example on two addresses for one club, the listing shows both rather than quietly picking one.

Three kinds of source

Official means the page belongs to the club, the organiser or a chess body such as FIDE; secondary means a third party reports it, such as a directory, a tournament server or a newspaper; unverified means a reader's contribution or a lone mention with nothing behind it.

The mark says who is speaking, not whether they are right. A directory line can outlive the club it names, which is why the date of a trace matters as much as its mark.

When the sources say nothing

For many Belgrade clubs no page states the meeting days, the fees or whether a visitor may simply turn up. Where no source answers, the listing reads "not stated by sources"; an empty field never means no.

If you know a page that fills a gap, send it through the form. It is checked and added, with its date, when the guide is next revised.

What the guide does not judge

• No club, school, coach or tournament is given a grade, a score or a place in a ranking.
• Listings rest on published pages; nobody visits the venues on the guide's behalf.
• Fees appear as a page stated them on the day it was read and are not checked on site.
• A tournament record shows that an event took place, not where a club meets on ordinary evenings.
• Nobody assesses the teaching; a coach's title is only checked against the FIDE profile.
• Step-free access, building hours and similar practical details are not looked into.
• Attendance is not counted, so a listing cannot tell how full an evening will be.
• A blank field means only that no page answered, never that the answer is no.

If a listing concerns you

Club boards, organisers, coaches, venue staff and players can correct a listing through the recommendation and correction form. A link to a page that shows the right fact makes the change quick.

Accepted corrections are dated in the update history and noted on the listing they concern. A club that would rather not appear can say so through the same form, and its listing is removed at the next revision.

Dates and revisions

The pages behind the current listings were last read on 21 October 2026; the date beside each source in a listing shows how old that piece of evidence is.

The whole guide is read again about every 6 months. In between, a club may change its evening or its hall before the listing catches up, and the club's own page has the last word.

Who is behind it

Belgrade Chess is an independent editorial project. It takes no money from clubs, organisers, schools or venues, carries no advertising, and has no tie to the Belgrade Chess Federation, the Chess Federation of Serbia or the city.

It exists because Belgrade chess is spread across tournament records, a business directory, a handful of club sites and many announcements, each holding one piece. The form is how players and clubs keep the guide accurate between revisions.

Reusing the data

The whole guide can be downloaded as a JSON file, one record per listing with every source, mark and date. It is published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence; please credit Belgrade Chess when you reuse it.

Language models and other programs can read a plain-text outline of the guide at llms.txt.

Checked and left out

Leads checked and not listed: 11. Typical reasons are a club outside the City of Belgrade, a one-off event with no second edition, a hall that hosted a single tournament, or a group that plays only online.

Map pins

A listing gets a pin when a source gives a map position or when its address is found as a building in OpenStreetMap's address search; a pin found that way is marked approximate.

No pin is placed by hand, the site draws no map of its own, and the map link opens openstreetmap.org. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).