About the register

Area and scope

The area is the City of Zagreb, with its city districts from Podsused to Sesvete, and the towns and municipalities of Zagreb County whose clubs play in the same leagues: Velika Gorica, Samobor, Zaprešić, Sveta Nedelja, Jastrebarsko, Dugo Selo, Vrbovec, Ivanić-Grad, Rugvica, Jakovlje, Luka and Križ. Names of places, clubs and tournaments are written as they are written locally.

Nothing here is rated, ranked or paid for, and no club is placed ahead of another. In each list the entries with the newest evidence come first; places that closed or moved stay at the end of the page that lists every entry.

Where the facts come from

The starting points are the member register of the Croatian Chess Federation (Hrvatski šahovski savez) and the club list of the Zagreb Chess Association, which sorts the city's clubs by league section. Then come the site and reports of the Zagreb County Chess Association, the league tables of the Centar league, the chess-results tournament server, the FIDE list of rated tournaments for Croatia, the pages of the City Libraries and the University Student Centre, a business directory for clubs without a site, and the clubs' own websites.

Every fact in an entry ends in a small number that leads to its source: a short quotation in the page's own language, mostly Croatian, and the day the page was read. The text of an entry summarises those quotations and adds nothing that no page states.

Where two pages disagree, for example a club's registered seat and the hall where it actually plays, the entry gives both and does not quietly pick one.

Three kinds of source

Official means the page comes from the club, the organiser or a chess body; secondary means a third party reports it, such as a directory, a tournament server or a newspaper; unverified means a contribution from a reader or a single mention with nothing behind it.

The mark tells who is speaking, not whether they are right. A register line can outlive the club it names, so the date of a trace counts as much as its mark.

When the pages are silent

Many Zagreb clubs have no site of their own and appear only in registers and league tables, so their meeting days, fees and rooms are often unknown. Where no page answers a question, the entry shows "not stated by sources"; an empty field never means no.

If you know a page that fills a gap, send it through the form. It is checked and added, with its date, at the next revision of the register.

What is not judged

• No club, school, trainer or tournament receives a grade, a score or a rank.
• Entries rest on published pages; nobody visits the venues for the register.
• Fees are quoted as a page showed them on the day it was read and are not checked on site.
• A league table shows that a team played; it does not show where the club meets on other days.
• Teaching quality is not assessed; a trainer's title is only compared with the FIDE profile.
• Step-free access, building hours and similar practical points are not examined.
• Attendance is not counted: an entry cannot say how many players come on a given evening.
• A blank field says only that no page gave an answer, never that the answer is no.

If an entry concerns you

Club boards, organisers, trainers, venue staff and members can correct an entry through the form for clubs and corrections. A link to a page that shows the right fact makes the change quick.

Each accepted correction is dated in the register changes and noted on the entry it concerns. A club that prefers not to be listed can say so through the same form, and its entry is removed at the next revision.

Dates and revisions

The pages behind the current entries were read between 15 October 2026 and 15 October 2026. The date next to each source in an entry shows how old that piece of evidence is.

The whole register is read again about every 6 months. In between, a club may change its evening or its hall before the entry follows; the club's own page has the last word.

Who runs it

Chess in Zagreb is an independent editorial project. It takes no money from clubs, organisers, schools or venues, carries no advertising, and has no tie to the Croatian Chess Federation or to the city or county association.

It exists because Zagreb chess is spread over a federation register, two association lists, league tables, a tournament server and dozens of club pages that each hold one piece. The form is how players and clubs keep it accurate between revisions.

Reusing the data

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

For language models and other programs, a plain-text outline of the register is at llms.txt.

Checked and left out

Leads checked and not listed: 11. The usual reasons are a club from another county with no tie to Zagreb, a single event with no second edition, a hall that hosted one tournament, or a group that plays only online.

Map pins

An entry carries a pin when a source gives a map position or when its address is found as a building in OpenStreetMap's address search. A pin found by search is marked approximate.

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