About this directory
Jakarta Chess brings together the clubs, venues, tournament series, chess schools and Percasi boards of Jakarta and its satellite cities in one directory. This page explains what is read for each card, what its status lines mean and where the directory stops.
What it covers
The directory covers Jabodetabek: the five administrative cities of DKI Jakarta and the cities and regencies of Bogor, Depok, Tangerang, South Tangerang and Bekasi around them. It is written for a player new to the city, a parent looking for a chess school, a visitor with a free evening and anyone who wants to know whether a club found online still plays.
Nothing in it is rated, ranked or recommended, and no place pays to appear. Each list opens with the places whose chess is most recently confirmed and closes with those that could not be confirmed.
What is read for each card
Indonesia publishes no register of chess clubs, so the main record is the public tournament database chess-results.com, where organisers in Indonesia post their events. A card built from it gives the organiser or venue name as the database prints it, the newest event with its date, and the place written in the location line, which is often a club basecamp, a mall or a coffee shop rather than a street address. The FIDE list of rated tournaments, the site of Sekolah Catur Utut Adianto, a university club’s page, a mall’s own site and a few press reports complete the picture.
Every fact on a card ends in a small number that leads to the page stating it, with a short quote in the original language and the date the page was read. Each card carries two status lines: the venue line says whether the place is known to be open, closed or neither, and the chess line gives the date of the newest sign of chess. A date taken from a notice of an event still to come is shown as the date given, since a notice is not yet a game played.
Where no page states the city or regency, the card gives only Greater Jakarta rather than guessing from a club’s name or a venue.
Three source marks
A source is marked official when it comes from the place itself, its organiser or a chess body; secondary when a third party such as the tournament database, the FIDE list or a newspaper reports it; unverified when users posted it or it appears in one place only.
The mark tells who is speaking, not whether they are right. A tournament listing can print a venue the club has since left. Read each mark together with its date.
What is not stated stays blank
Very few clubs in Jakarta publish their playing days, membership fees or whether a visitor can simply sit down and play. Where no page states a fact, the card says “not stated by sources”. That never means no, free or closed; it means nobody has put the answer where it can be read.
If you know a page that answers one of these questions, send it through the form, and the fact is added with its date at the next revision.
What the directory does not judge
- No club, venue, school, coach or tournament receives a score, a grade or a rank.
- Cards rest on published pages only; nobody visits a basecamp or a mall on behalf of the project.
- Prices are repeated as a page prints them and are not confirmed with the school or organiser.
- Days and times come from the organisers and may change before the card does.
- Teaching is not assessed; an instructor’s title is checked only against a FIDE profile where one is linked.
- Access by wheelchair, parking, noise and lighting at a venue are not checked.
- How many people play on a given evening is not counted.
- An empty line on a card means no source answers it; it never means no.
If a card is about you
Club officers, organisers, school owners, instructors and players can correct a card through the form. A link to a page that shows the right information makes the change quick to confirm. Messages are read together at the next revision of the directory.
Each correction is dated under edits and noted on the card it concerns. A club or school that would rather not be listed can ask for that through the same form and say why.
Reading dates and revisions
The pages behind the current cards were read from to . The date beside each source on a card shows how old that fact is.
The whole directory is due to be read again about every 6 months. Between revisions a club can change its basecamp or its round night without the card following. Every revision of the data or of these rules is entered under edits, newest first, and older entries are left as written.
Who is behind it
Jakarta Chess is an independent editorial project. It takes no money from clubs, schools, malls, organisers or federation boards, carries no advertising and belongs to no federation, league or association.
It exists because the chess of Greater Jakarta is spread over thousands of tournament listings, each holding one piece of the picture. The form on this site is the way to reach the project; no personal address is published.
Using the data
The full directory can be downloaded 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 at llms.txt.
Looked at and left out
Leads examined and not listed: 10. Typical reasons are a hall or hotel that hosted a single tournament, a staff or company tournament, an online-only community, or a name that could not be tied to a 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, since it can land a few buildings from the real entrance; few addresses in Jabodetabek were found this way, so most cards have no pin.
No pin is ever placed by hand; the site has no map of its own, and the map button opens openstreetmap.org. The map data is © OpenStreetMap contributors and published under the Open Database License (ODbL).