About the list

What the list covers

The list covers the city of Seville and the municipalities of its metropolitan area, from the Aljarafe in the west to Alcalá de Guadaíra, Dos Hermanas and Utrera in the south and east and La Rinconada and Brenes to the north. It is written for a player who has just arrived, a parent looking for classes, a visitor with an evening free, and anyone wondering whether a club found online still exists.

No place is rated, ranked or recommended, and none pays to appear. Lists open with the places whose chess is confirmed or dated, newest evidence first, and end with those that could not be confirmed.

What is read for each card

In Seville the fullest record of who plays where is the tournament server used by the Delegación Sevillana and the Andalusian federation: its listings give organisers, venues, dates and often entry fees, and they show which clubs field teams in the Sevilla league. Clubs’ own sites, municipal pages, the list of centres of the Escuela Sevillana and a few press items fill in the rest.

Each 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 day the page was read. A card carries two status lines. The venue line says whether the place is open, closed or not known. The chess line gives the date of the newest sign of chess; a date that comes from a notice is shown as the date given, because a notice is not yet a game played.

When pages disagree, for example when two listings give different halls for one tournament, the card keeps both and says which page says what.

Three marks on sources

A source is marked official when it comes from the place itself, its organiser, a town hall or a federation body; secondary when a third party such as a newspaper or a listing site reports it; unverified when it is user-posted or found in one place only.

The mark says who is speaking, not whether they are right. A tournament listing can name a bar that has since closed, and an old municipal page can be the only one that gives opening hours. Read the mark together with its date.

Unknown stays unknown

Few Seville clubs publish their fees or say whether a visitor may simply turn up. Where no page states a fact, the card reads “not stated by sources”. That does not mean no, free or closed; it means nobody has written it where it can be read.

If you know a page that fills such a gap, send it through the form. The fact is added, with its date, at the next revision.

What the list does not judge

• No place, teacher or tournament receives a mark, a score or a rank.
• The cards rest on published pages only; nobody from the project visits the venues.
• Entry fees and prices are repeated as published on the day of reading and are not checked on site.
• Club hours come from the clubs’ pages and may change before the card does.
• Teaching quality is not assessed; a teacher’s title is checked only against the FIDE profile.
• Step-free access, safety, noise, parking and similar matters are not looked at.
• How many people turn up on a given evening is not counted.
• A blank field means the sources say nothing, never that the answer is no.

If a card is about you

Club officers, organisers, bar owners, teachers and players can all correct a card through the add or report form. A link to the page where the right information is published makes the change easy to confirm. Messages are read together at the next revision of the Seville list.

Each correction is dated in the latest changes and noted on the card it concerns. A club or venue that prefers not to be listed can ask for that, with its reasons, through the same form.

Reading dates and revisions

The pages behind the current cards were read up to 14 October 2026. The date beside each source on a card shows how old that fact is.

The whole list is due to be read again about every 6 months. Between revisions a club can change its evening or its room without the card following. Each revision of the data or of these rules is entered in the latest changes, newest first, and earlier entries stay as written.

Who runs it

Seville Chess is an independent editorial project. It takes no money from clubs, organisers, bars, schools or shops, carries no advertising and belongs to no federation, delegation or association.

It exists because the information is scattered across tournament listings, club sites and municipal pages that each hold one piece. The form on this site is the way to reach the project; no personal address is published.

Reusing the data

The full list is available as a JSON dataset, one record per place with every source, mark and date. The licence is stated inside the file.

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

Considered and left out

Leads considered and not listed: 12. The usual reasons are a one-off event or promotion with no second edition, a club or tournament in a town outside the metropolitan area, or a search hit that only shared a street name with Seville. Each one is named in the dataset with its reason.

Points on the map

A card shows a map point when a source gives one or when its address is found by the OpenStreetMap address search. A point found by address search is marked approximate, since it can fall a few numbers away from the real entrance.

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