How entries are sourced
Chess in Buenos Aires gathers the clubs, círculos, tournaments, classes and other chess places of the Ciudad Autónoma and the surrounding partidos into one guide. This page sets out what is read, how an entry is made and where the guide stops.
Area covered
The guide covers the Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, with its barrios given as districts, and the partidos of Greater Buenos Aires, from Tigre and San Isidro in the north to Quilmes, Berazategui and Esteban Echeverría in the south and Moreno and Morón in the west. Place names keep their Spanish spelling and accents.
No entry is graded, ranked or paid for. Within a list, entries follow the date of their newest evidence and nothing else; places that have closed or moved are kept at the end of the full list.
Where an entry comes from
The main sources are the FIDE list of rated tournaments for Argentina, whose city field names the club or venue, the tournament server chess-results.com, the news pages of the national chess federation and of the Argentine Football Association, municipal sports agendas, local press, and the websites of the clubs, schools and organisers themselves.
Each fact on an entry carries a small number linking to the page behind it, together with a short quotation in that page's language, mostly Spanish, and the date of reading. An entry's notes condense those quotations and never go beyond them.
Where two pages disagree, on a venue or a date for instance, the entry gives both rather than choosing one.
Three source marks
Official means the page belongs to the place, to whoever organises the event or to a chess federation. Secondary is a third-party report: the rating list, a tournament server, a newspaper, a directory. Unverified covers user posts and lone mentions that no other page repeats.
A mark records the speaker, not the truth of what is said: a federation list may still carry a club that stopped meeting long ago, which is why each trace also carries its date.
Gaps stay visible
Many clubs here publish their tournaments but not their opening hours, their fees or whether a visitor can walk in. Where no page answers a question the entry reads "not stated by sources"; an empty field never stands for a no.
A page that fills a gap can be sent through the form; it is checked and added, with its date, at the next revision of the guide.
What the guide does not judge
- Nothing here is scored: no club, school, coach, café or tournament gets a grade or a place in a ranking.
- No one visits the venues for the guide; every entry rests on what has been published.
- A fee appears in pesos as the page showed it on the day of reading, with no conversion or update.
- Playing strength, of a tournament field or of a teacher, is not assessed; a coach's title is checked only against FIDE.
- Building hours, wheelchair access and similar practical matters are outside what is checked.
- Turnout is unknown: an entry cannot tell how full a room gets on any night.
- Standings, results and rating changes stay on the tournament pages and are not reproduced.
- A blank field means only that the question found no answer on any page.
If an entry concerns you
Club officers, organisers, teachers, venue staff and players can correct an entry through the form. A link to a page that shows the right information makes a correction quick to check.
Every accepted correction is dated in guide updates and noted on the entry concerned. A place that would rather not be listed can say so through the same form, and its entry is taken off at the next revision.
Dates and revisions
Every page behind the present entries was opened between and , and the date beside each source tells the age of that particular piece of evidence.
A full re-reading of the guide comes round about every 6 months. In between, a club may move room or change its evening before its entry follows, and what the club publishes itself takes precedence.
Who is behind it
Chess in Buenos Aires is an independent editorial project. It takes no money from clubs, schools, organisers, cafés or shops, carries no advertising and has no tie to the national federation, the city federation or any other chess body.
It exists because the chess of Buenos Aires is spread across a rating list, tournament pages, club circulars, municipal agendas and social media, each holding a piece of it. The form is how players and organisers keep the guide right between revisions.
Reusing the data
The whole guide can be downloaded as a JSON dataset, one record per entry with every source, mark and date, under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence; please credit Chess in Buenos Aires when you reuse it.
Programs that read websites for people, language models among them, will find a short plain-text summary of the guide at llms.txt.
Looked at and left out
Entries considered and not listed: 11. The usual reasons are a club whose latest dated activity is more than two years old, a venue that hosted a single event, an organisation whose seat no page prints, or a list of park tables with no date and no second source.
Map pins
An entry has a pin when a source gives a map position or when its address is matched to a building by the OpenStreetMap address search; a pin from that search is marked approximate.
No pin is ever set by hand, and no map is drawn on the site itself: on an entry with a pin the map button opens openstreetmap.org, and on an entry with an address but no pin it runs a map search for that address. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (Open Database Licence).