How entries are checked

The area and what counts

The register covers the city of Vilnius, the Vilnius district municipality around it, and the nearby towns of Trakai and Lentvaris, where some of the same organisers teach and play. An entry names a settlement such as Grigiškės or Pagiriai wherever a page prints one.

Nothing here is scored, ranked or paid for. Inside each list the entries with the newest dated trace stand first; moved or closed places are kept at the end of the full register so that an old link still explains itself.

Which pages are read

Vilnius chess is unusually well documented by one club: the site of Vilniaus šachmatų klubas publishes a dated calendar, prices, halls and rules. Next comes the chess-results tournament server, whose lists for Lithuania give the organiser and the hall of each event; events are grouped into series and venues by those fields, and the entry cites the pages that show the newest and older editions.

The Lithuanian Chess Federation lists places to play and places to learn. The timetable of Lietuvos šachmatų mokykla gives each school circle with its address, weekday and hour. The sites of academies, schools, universities and community centres, and the public register of institutions, fill in the rest.

Each fact in an entry ends in a small number that leads to its page, with a short quotation in the page’s own language and the day it was opened. When two pages disagree, as they do on the Panorama hotel’s address, the entry gives both and says which page says what.

What the source marks mean

A page is marked official when the place, its organiser or a federation published it; secondary when someone else reports it, such as the tournament server or a listing; and unverified when it rests on users or a single stray mention.

The mark says who is speaking, not whether they are right. A timetable row shows that a circle is planned for the school year, not that it met last week; circles known only from the provider’s timetable are therefore shown as not confirmed.

Gaps that stay visible

Few Vilnius places publish a fee, a weekly hour or whether a visitor may simply walk in. Where no page answers, the entry says “not stated by sources”; a blank never means no.

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

What the register does not judge

• No club, studio, school, trainer or tournament gets a grade, a score or a position in a ranking.
• Entries rest on published pages; nobody visits the rooms for the register.
• Prices are copied as printed on the day a page was opened and may have changed since.
• School timetables are redrawn each September and can change before an entry does.
• Teaching quality is not assessed; a trainer’s title is only compared with the FIDE profile.
• Step-free access, heating, parking and similar practical details are not checked.
• Nobody counts attendance, so an entry cannot tell how many players turn up.
• A line in a public register shows that an organisation exists on paper, not that it meets today.

If an entry is about you

Club organisers, trainers, school staff, parents and players can correct an entry through the update form. A link to a page that shows the right information makes the change quick.

Each accepted correction is dated under entry changes and noted on the entry concerned. A club, school or person who would rather not be listed can say so through the same form, and the entry is removed at the next revision.

Dates and revisions

The pages behind the present entries were opened between 15 October 2026 and 15 October 2026. The date beside each source shows how old that piece of evidence is.

The whole register is due to be read again about every 6 months. In between, an evening may change bars or a circle may change its day before the entry catches up; the organiser’s own page has the final word.

Who is behind it

Vilnius Chess is an independent editorial project. It takes no money from clubs, academies, schools, organisers or venues, carries no advertising for them, and has no tie to the Lithuanian Chess Federation, the city club or the provider of the school circles.

It exists because Vilnius chess is spread across a club calendar, a tournament server, federation lists and a school timetable, each showing one part of the picture. The form is how players, parents and organisers can keep it right between revisions.

Reusing the data

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

Language models and other software can read a plain-text outline of the site at llms.txt.

Looked at and left out

Candidates looked at and not listed: 17. Most are halls, hotels and squares that hosted a single event, venues of the city club’s tournaments in towns beyond the Vilnius area, duplicates of an existing entry, and online teams with no place to meet.

Pins on the map

An entry has a pin only when its address was found as a building in the OpenStreetMap address search, or when a source gives a map position; a pin found by search is marked approximate. Entries whose pages give no street have none.

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