How the list is kept

What the list covers

The area is the city of Milan, the other comuni of its metropolitan city and the province of Monza e Brianza. The list is written for anyone looking for a game or a course: someone new to the city, a parent, a student, a visitor with a free evening, or a player wondering whether a club found online still meets.

There are no ratings, scores or rankings here, and no entry is paid for or sponsored. In every list the cards with recent dated evidence come first; cards that could not be confirmed follow them.

What is read for a card

The backbone is the Italian chess federation’s register of affiliated societies for the provinces of Milan and Monza e Brianza, which names each club and its registered address. The Lombardy regional committee’s calendar and tournament result servers show where events were actually held. Each club’s own site is read for its week, its courses and its news; local newspapers, park and university pages and city guides cover the few places that are not clubs.

Every fact carries a small number linking to the page that states it, with a short quotation in the original language and the date the page was read. Two status lines open each card: one for the venue (open, closed or unknown) and one for chess there, dated by the newest dated sign of play. A date taken from a notice is shown as the date given, not as a promise that the event will happen.

Where pages disagree, for example a register address and a different one on a club’s own site, the card keeps one of them and says which page gives the other.

Official, secondary, unverified

Official means the page comes from the place itself, its organiser or a federation body. Secondary means a third party reports it: a newspaper, a guide, a listing. Unverified marks material posted by users, or a claim found on a single page with nothing to back it.

The mark tells who is speaking, not whether they are right: a register can still carry a club that stopped meeting, and a city guide can be the only page that mentions chess in a bar. Read each mark together with its date.

Missing facts stay missing

Most clubs here do not publish their fees, and few state whether visitors may come without notice. The card then reads “not stated by sources”, which never means no, free or closed: it means that no page read gives the answer.

A link to a page that fills such a gap, sent through the form, goes onto the card with its date at the next revision.

What the list does not judge

• No club, course, coach or tournament receives a grade, a score or a place in a ranking.
• Cards are built from published pages; nobody from the project visits the venues.
• Fees are repeated as published on the day of reading and are not checked on site.
• Opening hours come from the clubs’ own pages and can change before the next revision.
• Teaching quality is not assessed; a coach’s title is compared only with the FIDE profile.
• Step-free access, safety, heating and parking are not looked into.
• Attendance is not counted, so a card cannot say how busy an evening will be.
• A blank field means that the sources are silent, not that the answer is no.

Your club on this site

Anyone connected with a listed place, from a club president to a regular player, can correct its card through the correction form. A link to the page where the right information appears makes the change quick to confirm. Messages are handled together at the next revision of the Milan list.

Each accepted correction is dated under what is new and shown on the card it concerns. A club or venue that would rather not be listed can ask for that through the same form, giving its reasons.

Reading dates and revisions

The pages behind the current cards were read between 14 October 2026 and 14 October 2026; the date beside each source shows the age of that one fact.

The whole list is meant to be read again about every 6 months, so a club may move or change its evening before the card catches up. Every change to the data or to these rules is recorded in the change log, newest first, and earlier lines stay as written.

Who runs the site

Chess in Milan is an independent editorial project. It takes no money from clubs, schools, organisers or shops, carries no advertising and is not part of any federation or association.

It exists because what a player needs to know is spread across a register, several calendars and dozens of club sites. The form is the only way to reach the project; no personal address is published.

Reusing the data

The full list is available as a JSON file, one record per entry with its sources, marks and dates; the licence is stated inside the file.

A plain-text summary of the site for language models and other software is kept at llms.txt.

Considered and left out

Leads examined and not listed: 9. The usual reasons are a single event with no second edition, a group that meets only online, a club whose seat lies outside the two provinces, a duplicate, or a page that could not be opened or carried no date. The dataset names each of them with its reason.

Map points

A card shows a map point only when a source gives one or when its address is found by the OpenStreetMap address search; a point from an address search is marked approximate.

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