We just launched our blog

Until today, berlin-chess.com was a single page about an app. It told you there were more than eighty places to play chess in Berlin and a calendar full of tournaments, and then it asked you to download something to see them.

That changes today, in three ways.

Every event has its own page

Every tournament, blitz evening and club night we list now has a page of its own: when it is next on, where, what to expect, and a link to the organiser's own page. Recurring events get one page that collects their dates — a club's weekly evening is one page, not fifty. The events overview lists everything coming up, month by month, and can be narrowed to tournaments, blitz or casual nights.

Every venue shows what is on there

The venue pages — clubs, cafés, park tables — now list what is coming up at each of them, so a club's page tells you not just where it is but when to turn up.

And now, this blog

Here we will write about what the listings cannot say on their own:

• Tournament reports — who won, what happened, and a link to the full results.
• New places to play as they join the map, and the ones that close.
• Changes worth knowing about. In October the Thursday Chess Grinder night moved from Belushi's at Alexanderplatz to Belushi's in Mitte, two kilometres away. A listing can be updated quietly; a post can tell you it happened.
• Round-ups of what is on over a season.

Where the listings come from

The events come from the Berliner Schachverband's calendar and from the clubs' own published calendars. Every one is read by a person before it appears — an event we cannot place at a real venue is set aside rather than shown in the wrong spot.

That also means we get things wrong sometimes. If your club's evening has moved, a tournament is missing, or you have results or news you would like to see here, write to us at berlinchessapp@gmail.com. The same address works if you would rather your event were not listed.

In your pocket

Everything here is also in the Berlin Chess app — the map of every place to play, the full calendar, and the venues you save. It is free on the App Store, and the Android version is on its way.

See you at the board.