Sources and verification

What the register covers

The register covers Amman with Fuheis, Zarqa and the other towns of the metropolitan area: clubs that play chess, academies and centres that teach it, the federation, and championships that come back year after year. A single school or company tournament, a board-game café with no sign of chess, and clubs known only from other governorates are left out.

No entry is scored, ranked or recommended, and none is paid for. Each list opens with the entry whose pages show chess most recently.

Which pages were read

The federation’s website lists its first- and second-division clubs of 2023 and its affiliated centres and academies, by name only. The public tournament server chess-results.com was searched for Jordanian events from 2025 to 2027; its league tables and tournament pages name organisers and, now and then, a location. Olympic Committee pages, university news, a FIDE news item, one club’s own website and a visitor’s blog supply the rest.

An entry known only from the 2023 lists stays unconfirmed until a later dated page shows it at work. Each fact ends in a small number that leads to its source, with a short quotation in the original language and the date the page was opened.

Official, secondary and unverified sources

Official marks a page published by the place itself, its organiser, the federation or a public body. Secondary marks a report by someone else: the tournament server, a directory, a news site. Unverified marks something posted by users or seen in one place only.

The mark says who is speaking, not whether they are right: a league table can carry an old club name, and a federation list can lag years behind.

What stays unknown

Almost no club or academy in Amman prints when it meets, what membership or a lesson costs, or whether a visitor may sit down for a game. Where no page says, the entry reads “no source says” instead of an assumption drawn from the kind of place.

Anyone who knows a page answering one of these questions can send it through the form; the fact then goes in with that page as its source.

What the register does not judge

• No club, academy, coach or championship is given a rating, a grade or a rank.
• Entries rest on published pages only; no one visits the clubs for the register.
• Fees are copied from the page that prints them and not confirmed with the organiser.
• Days and hours come from published notices and can change before the entry does.
• Playing strength and the quality of teaching are not assessed.
• Step-free access, air conditioning and noise in the rooms are not checked.
• Nobody counts how many players turn up on a given day.
• A blank line means that no page answers it, never that the answer is no.

If an entry concerns you

Club officers, organisers, coaches, parents and players can correct any entry through the form. A link to a page that shows the correct information makes the change quick to confirm. Messages are reviewed together at the next revision.

Every change is dated in the register history and noted on the entry it concerns. A club or academy that prefers not to be listed can say so through the same form and give its reason.

When pages were opened, and what follows

The pages behind the current entries were opened between 15 October 2026 and 15 October 2026. The date beside each source shows how fresh that fact is.

The whole register is due to be read again about every 6 months. In between, a club may change rooms or a championship may lapse before its entry follows. Each revision of the data or of these rules is listed in the register history, newest first, and older lines are kept as written.

Who is behind it

Amman Chess is an independent editorial project. It accepts no money from clubs, academies, organisers or venues, shows no advertising, and nobody pays to be listed or to be removed.

It exists because Jordanian chess is scattered across federation lists, league tables and university news, each giving a name and a date and little else. Read side by side, they show where the game is played, and this register keeps that reading in one place with its sources.

Using the data

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

Programs and language models can read a plain-text summary at llms.txt.

Leads checked and left out

Leads checked and not listed: 8. The usual reasons are a club or academy outside the Amman area, a company or school tournament held once, a café where no page mentions chess, or a name that no page places. The dataset gives each lead with its reason.

Map markers

An entry receives a marker only when a source supplies coordinates or the OpenStreetMap address search finds the building itself. Very few Amman sources print a street address, and the search matched none of those that do, so the entries carry no marker for now.

No marker is placed by hand. The site has no map of its own: the map button opens openstreetmap.org, and markers taken from OpenStreetMap are credited on the entry.