How the list is checked

What the list covers

The list covers the districts of Metropolitan Lima and the Constitutional Province of Callao, from Carabayllo and Comas in the north to Chorrillos, San Juan de Miraflores and Pachacámac in the south, and east to Ate, Santa Anita and La Molina. It is meant for a player new to the city, a parent looking for an academy, a visitor with a free evening, and anyone checking whether a club found online is still active.

No place is rated, ranked or recommended here, and none pays to appear. Each list starts with the places whose chess is most recently confirmed and ends with those that could not be confirmed.

What is read for each card

Lima has no club register online that could be read, so the main record is the national tournament server: its listings name the organiser and the hall, give a date and often an entry fee and a number for information. The tournament search of the same server gives the street address an organiser typed. Resolutions of the national sports registry and a rules sheet published by the Callao council of the engineers’ college fill in a few cards.

Every fact on a card ends in a small number that leads to the page stating it, with a short quote in the original Spanish and the date the page was read. Each card carries two status lines: the place line says whether the venue is known to be open, closed or neither, and the chess line gives the date of the newest sign of chess. A date that comes from a notice of a coming event is shown as the date given, since a notice is not yet a game played.

When two pages disagree, for instance when a club’s tournaments list two different halls in two seasons, the card keeps both addresses and says which page gives which.

Three marks on sources

A source is marked official when it comes from the place itself, its organiser, a council or a sports body; secondary when a third party such as a tournament server or a newspaper reports it; unverified when it is posted by users or found in one place only.

The mark tells who is speaking, not whether they are right. A tournament listing can give a hall the club has since left, and a registry entry can be the only trace of an association. Read the mark together with its date.

Unknown stays unknown

Few clubs in Lima publish their opening hours, their fees for members or whether a visitor can simply walk in. Where no page states a fact, the card says “not stated by sources”. That does not mean no, free or closed; it means nobody has put it in writing where it can be read.

If you know a page that fills one of these gaps, send it through the form, and the fact is added with its date at the next revision.

What the list does not judge

• No club, academy, coach or tournament gets a score, a mark or a position in a ranking.
• The cards rest on published pages only; nobody visits the halls on behalf of the project.
• Entry fees are repeated as printed on the listing and are not confirmed with the organiser.
• Days and hours come from the organisers’ pages and may change before the card does.
• Nobody grades the teaching; a coach’s title is only set against the FIDE profile.
• Whether a hall has steps, parking, quiet or good light is not checked.
• Attendance on a given evening is not counted.
• An empty field means that the sources are silent, never that the answer is no.

If a card is about you

Club officers, organisers, academy owners, coaches and players can correct a card through the form. A link to the page where the right information is published makes a change quick to confirm. Messages are read together at the next revision of the Lima list.

Every correction is dated in the latest edits and noted on the card concerned. A club or academy 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 present cards were read between October 14, 2026 and October 14, 2026. The date beside each source on a card tells how old that fact is.

The whole list is due to be read again about every 6 months. Between revisions a club can move hall or change its evening without the card following. Each revision of the data or of these rules goes into the latest edits, newest first, and earlier entries stay as they were written.

Who is behind it

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

It exists because Lima’s chess is scattered over hundreds of tournament listings that each hold one piece of the picture. The form on this site is the way to reach the project; no personal address is published.

Reusing the data

The whole register can be downloaded as a JSON dataset, one record per place with every source, mark and date; the licence is stated in the file.

An outline of the site in plain text for language models and other software is kept at llms.txt.

Considered and left out

Leads looked at and not listed: 19. The usual reasons are a school or hall that hosted a single tournament day, an organiser outside Lima and Callao, or a name that could not be tied to any place. Each lead is named in the dataset with its reason.

Map pins

A card shows a map pin only when a source gives one or when its address is found by the OpenStreetMap address search. A pin from the address search is marked approximate, because it can fall a few doors from the real entrance; in Lima few addresses were found this way.

Pins are never placed by hand; the site has no map of its own, and the map button opens openstreetmap.org. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, under the Open Database License (ODbL).