Behind this list
Tashkent Chess brings the academies, tournaments, clubs and open boards of the Uzbek capital into one register and ties each fact to a page that anyone can open.
What the register covers
It covers the places across Tashkent’s districts where chess is played or taught: academies and teaching centres, recurring tournaments, clubs, libraries and makhalla rooms, shops. A place needs a name that can be checked and at least one page that shows chess there. One-off cups of banks and ministries, and halls that hosted a single event, are left out.
No place is scored, ranked or recommended, and no card is paid for. Inside each list, the place with the most recent dated sign of chess comes first.
Which pages are read
The Uzbekistan Chess Federation keeps a club register, but it names very few places in the capital. Most cards therefore rest on the public tournament server chess-results.com, read for Tashkent from 2025 to 2027, and on the academies’ own websites, which print addresses, hours and fees. For an organiser known only from the server, the card gives the name, the tournaments and the newest date.
Business directories list many learning centres under a chess heading; such an entry becomes a card only when its category is chess itself, and stays unconfirmed until a page of the centre confirms it. Telegram channels and Instagram accounts were not read. Each fact ends in a small number that leads to its source, with a short quote in the original language and the day it was opened.
The three source marks
Official means the page comes from the place itself, its organiser, the federation or a government body. Secondary means a third party reports it, such as the tournament server, a directory or the press. Unverified means users posted it or it was found in one place only.
A mark says who is speaking, not whether they are right: a directory can keep a centre that has closed, and an academy’s site can lag behind its branches.
What stays empty
Few places in Tashkent print whether a visitor can simply sit down to play, what an evening costs or which days are fixed. Where no page answers, the card says “not stated by sources” instead of guessing from the kind of place.
If you know a page that answers one of these questions, send it through the form, and the fact will be added with that page as its source.
What the register does not judge
- No academy, club, coach or tournament receives a score, a grade or a place in a ranking.
- Cards rest on published pages; nobody visits a classroom or a tournament hall for the register.
- Fees are copied from the page that prints them; nobody checks them with the academy.
- Opening hours come from academies and directories and may change before the card does.
- Teaching quality is not assessed; a coach’s title is checked only against a linked FIDE profile.
- Step-free access, heating, cooling and noise are not checked.
- How many players come on a given day is not counted.
- An empty line means no page answers it, never that the answer is no.
If a card concerns you
Academy owners, club organisers, coaches, parents and players can correct a card through the form. A link to the page with the right information makes the change quick to confirm. Messages are read together at the next revision.
Every correction is dated in the entry log and shown on the card it concerns. An academy or club that prefers not to be listed can ask for that through the same form, with a reason.
When the pages were read, and revisions
The pages behind the present cards were opened between and . The date beside each source tells how old that particular fact is.
The whole register is due to be read again about every 6 months. Between readings, an academy may open a branch or a tournament may change its hall without the card following. Each revision of the data or of these rules is entered in the entry log, newest first, and older entries stay as written.
Who stands behind it
Tashkent Chess is an independent editorial project. It takes no money from academies, clubs or organisers, shows no advertising, and nobody pays to be listed or to be removed.
It exists because the city’s chess is scattered across academy sites, directory entries and hundreds of tournament rows, each with one name and one date. Read together they show where the game lives, and this register keeps that reading in one place with its sources.
Using the data
The full register can be downloaded as a JSON dataset: one record per place, with every source, mark and date. The licence is given inside the file.
For language models and other software, a plain-text outline of the site is kept at llms.txt.
Looked at and left out
Leads examined and not listed: 17. Typical reasons are a cup held once by a bank or a ministry, a kindergarten tagged with chess in a directory, an event outside the metropolitan area, or a name that could not be tied to a place. The dataset lists each lead with its reason.
Map pins
A card has a pin only when a source gives one or when the OpenStreetMap address search finds the building itself. Many Tashkent addresses are written by massif and block number, which the search seldom matches, so many cards have no pin.
No pin is set by hand. The site carries no map of its own; the map button opens openstreetmap.org, and OpenStreetMap pins are credited on the card.