How the Tricity list is checked

Area and scope

The list covers the Tricity, that is Gdańsk, Gdynia and Sopot with their districts where a page names them, and the neighbouring towns and communes of Rumia, Reda, Wejherowo, Bolszewo, Kosakowo, Kolbudy and Żukowo. Each entry shows its town, and inside Gdańsk or Gdynia the district when a source gives one.

No entry is rated, ranked or paid for, and none is placed ahead of another on request. Each list starts with the newest dated trace; places that have closed or moved are kept at the end of the full list.

What an entry rests on

The central register of the Polish Chess Federation and the calendar and news of the Pomeranian Chess Association are read first. Tournament pages on chessarbiter, ChessPoint and the FIDE list of rated tournaments date the series and name their halls; a hall gets an entry of its own when those pages show chess played there again and again.

The sites of clubs and schools, city and library event pages and the programmes of youth culture centres add timetables, prices and addresses. A series with one name and one organiser is kept as a single entry that cites its newest edition and some earlier ones.

Every fact ends in a small number that leads to its source: a short quotation in the language of that page and the day the page was read. When two pages disagree, the entry says which page says what.

What the source marks mean

Official means the page comes from the place itself, its organiser, a school or a chess federation. Secondary means another party reports it: a tournament server, a city calendar, the press. Unverified means the fact rests on posts by users or on a single passing mention.

A mark says who is speaking, not whether they are right. A line in the federation register shows that a club holds a licence, not that it meets this week, so a club known only from the register reads as not confirmed.

Blanks and gaps

Tournament pages give dates, halls and time controls but rarely say what the next edition will cost, and clubs seldom say whether a visitor may simply sit down for a game. Where no page answers, the entry says “not stated by sources”; a blank never means no.

A page that fills a gap can be sent through the form; it is checked, dated and added at the next review.

What the list does not judge

• No club, coach, school or tournament is scored, graded or ranked.
• Entries rest on published pages; nobody visits the halls, rooms or cafés for this list.
• Fees are copied as printed on the day of reading and may have changed since.
• Class timetables follow the school year and can move ahead of an entry.
• Teaching quality is not assessed; a coach’s title is checked only against the FIDE database.
• Step-free access, parking, heating and similar practical points are not checked.
• Attendance is not counted, so no entry says how many people come.
• A line in the federation register proves a licence, not a club evening this week.

If an entry concerns you

Club boards, organisers, coaches, schools, libraries, parents and players can correct an entry through the report form. A link to a page that shows the right information makes the change quick.

Accepted corrections are dated under updates and corrections and noted on the entry itself. A club or a person who prefers not to be listed can say so through the same form, and the entry comes down at the next review.

Dates and reviews

The pages behind the current entries were all read on 23 October 2026; every source keeps its own date, so the age of each piece of evidence stays in view.

The whole list is due to be read again roughly every 6 months. In between, a club may change its room or its days before the entry does, and the organiser’s own page has the last word.

Who is behind the list

Gdańsk Chess is an independent editorial project. It takes no money from clubs, schools, organisers or venues, carries no advertising for them and has no tie to the Polish Chess Federation or the Pomeranian Chess Association.

It exists because Tricity chess is scattered across a federation register, a regional calendar, tournament servers, the FIDE list and many club, school and library pages, each holding one piece. The form lets players and organisers keep it accurate between reviews.

Reusing the data

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

Software and language models can read a plain-text outline of the site at llms.txt.

Looked at and left out

Entries considered and not listed: 15. They include outdoor tables and giant boards that map directories show without any dated trace of play, clubs and tournaments in Pomeranian towns beyond the area, events held only once at a given venue, and items whose latest date is more than two years old or that carry no date at all.

Positions on the map

An entry gets a map position only when its address was found as a building in the OpenStreetMap address search, or when a source gives one; a position found by search is marked approximate. An entry with an address but no position offers a button that looks the address up on a map.

No position is placed by hand, and the site has no map of its own. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, under the Open Database Licence.