{ "city": "Brussels", "country": "BE", "collected": "2026-10-14", "updated": "2026-10-14", "license": "CC BY 4.0", "cards": [ { "slug": "cercle-royal-des-echecs-de-bruxelles", "name": "Cercle Royal des Échecs de Bruxelles", "name_local": null, "kind": "club", "sections": [ "play" ], "municipality": "Bruxelles", "address": "Rue du Miroir 22, 1000 Bruxelles", "district": null, "lat": 50.840137, "lon": 4.347756, "coords_source": "geocoded_address", "indoor_outdoor": "indoor", "access": { "value": "unknown", "src": 0 }, "cost": { "value": "unknown", "amount": null, "src": 0 }, "equipment": { "boards": "unknown", "clocks": "unknown", "tables_count": null, "giant_pieces": "n/a", "src": 0 }, "audience": { "beginners_welcome": null, "kids": null, "adults_only": null, "languages": [], "src": 0 }, "formats": [ "rated_tournaments" ], "season": { "value": "unknown", "months": null, "src": 0 }, "federation": { "member": true, "body": "FRBE / FEFB", "src": 0 }, "training": { "offers": [], "ages": null, "languages": [], "price": { "value": "unknown", "amount": null, "src": 0 }, "trial_lesson": null, "group_size": null, "coaches": [], "branches": null, "src": 0 }, "sessions": [ { "organiser": "Cercle Royal des Échecs de Bruxelles", "weekday": "Sat", "time": "14:30-20:00", "note": "Hours printed in the federation register; the playing place is the Atelier Bois et Métal.", "live_page": null, "src": 1 } ], "status": { "value": "active", "evidence": "The federation register lists the club with Saturday hours from 14:30 to 20:00. The FIDE list of rated tournaments for September 2026 carries \"Rapides de Rentree du CREB 2026\" in Bruxelles, dated 5 September 2026. The register gives the playing place as Rue du Miroir 22 and also lists a separate seat address, which is not used here. The club website could not be read (it needs JavaScript). The FIDE list also carries the club's Easter tournament (from 14 March 2026) and spring tournament (from 23 May 2026). A guide updated in March 2025 gave the Saturday open tournament at 15:00 at the Palais du Midi, Rue Roger van der Weyden 3, whereas the register now gives the playing place as Rue du Miroir 22. The Mémorial Albert Dethiou and the Mémorial René Vannerom in the FIDE list have as chief organiser the person whom the register lists as the club's tournament director.", "evidence_date": "2026-09-05", "moved_to": null, "src": 3 }, "contacts": { "website": "http://www.creb.be", "email": null, "phone": null, "social": [] }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.frbe-kbsb-ksb.be/api/v1/clubs/anon/club/201", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "\"name_long\":\"CERCLE ROYAL DES ECHECS DE BRUXELLES ASBL\"" }, { "url": "https://www.frbe-kbsb-ksb.be/api/v1/clubs/anon/club/201", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "\"Saturday\":\"14h30 à 20h\"" }, { "url": "https://www.frbe-kbsb-ksb.be/api/v1/clubs/anon/club/201", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Rue du Miroir, 22" }, { "url": "https://ratings.fide.com/a_tournaments.php?country=BEL&period=2026-10-01", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Rapides de Rentree du CREB 2026" }, { "url": "https://brusselschessclub.be/contenu/Chess_in_Brussels%202024-2025.pdf", "kind": "directory", "flag": "secondary", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Local: « Palais du Midi », rue Roger van der Weyden, 3, 1000 Bruxelles" }, { "url": "https://ratings.fide.com/a_tournaments.php?country=BEL&period=2026-06-01", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "CREB Tournoi du Printemps 2026 Rondes 1-2" }, { "url": "https://ratings.fide.com/a_tournaments.php?country=BEL&period=2026-04-01", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "CREB Tournoi de Paques 2026 Rondes 1-3" } ], "geocode": { "query": "Rue du Miroir 22, 1000 Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium", "osm_type": "node", "osm_id": 12819202714, "display_name": "22, Rue du Miroir - Spiegelstraat, Marolles - Marollen, Pentagon, Brussels, Brussels-Capital, 1000, Belgium", "date": "2026-10-14" }, "edited": "2026-10-14" }, { "slug": "excelsior-ganshoren", "name": "Excelsior Ganshoren", "name_local": null, "kind": "club", "sections": [ "play", "learn" ], "municipality": "Ganshoren", "address": "Rue Zeyp 47, 1083 Ganshoren", "district": null, "lat": 50.873958, "lon": 4.31189, "coords_source": "geocoded_address", "indoor_outdoor": "indoor", "access": { "value": "unknown", "src": 0 }, "cost": { "value": "paid", "amount": "2025-2026 season: 80 EUR adults, 50 EUR ages 8 to 18, club tournaments included", "src": 8 }, "equipment": { "boards": "unknown", "clocks": "unknown", "tables_count": null, "giant_pieces": "n/a", "src": 0 }, "audience": { "beginners_welcome": true, "kids": null, "adults_only": null, "languages": [], "src": 9 }, "formats": [ "rated_tournaments", "lessons" ], "season": { "value": "unknown", "months": null, "src": 0 }, "federation": { "member": true, "body": "FRBE / FEFB", "src": 0 }, "training": { "offers": [ "group_classes" ], "ages": null, "languages": [], "price": { "value": "unknown", "amount": null, "src": 0 }, "trial_lesson": null, "group_size": null, "coaches": [ { "name": "Radu-Catalin Nica", "title_claimed": "none stated", "fide_profile": null, "fide_title_seen": null, "src": 6 } ], "branches": null, "src": 6 }, "sessions": [ { "organiser": "Excelsior Ganshoren", "weekday": "Wed", "time": null, "note": "Federation register hours: \"18h - 21h débutants 20h - 23h avancés\". The club chess school met on Wednesdays from 18:00 to 21:00 in the 2025-2026 school year.", "live_page": "https://excelsior-chess-club.com/", "src": 1 }, { "organiser": "Excelsior Ganshoren", "weekday": "Sun", "time": "14:00-20:00", "note": "Federation register: \"Open du club et des Interclubs\", 14h - 20h.", "live_page": null, "src": 2 } ], "status": { "value": "active", "evidence": "The club site publishes an \"Open FIDE de l'Automne en 5 rondes\" with round dates from 13 September to 25 October 2026 (second round 20 September 2026), and lists the club among the 2026-2027 national interclub teams. The chess school ran on Wednesdays from 3 September 2025 to 24 June 2026. For the 2025-2026 season the club's registration page gave a yearly fee of 80 EUR for adults and 50 EUR for ages 8 to 18, with the club tournaments included, and its chess school took beginners and experienced players. The FIDE list also carries \"David vs Goliath 2026\", dated 23 May 2026 in Ganshoren; its FIDE record names as chief organiser the person whom the federation register lists as tournament director of this club, and no page says who hosted it.", "evidence_date": "2026-09-20", "moved_to": null, "src": 4 }, "contacts": { "website": "https://excelsior-chess-club.com/", "email": null, "phone": null, "social": [] }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.frbe-kbsb-ksb.be/api/v1/clubs/anon/club/204", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "\"name_long\":\"Excelsior Ganshoren\"" }, { "url": "https://www.frbe-kbsb-ksb.be/api/v1/clubs/anon/club/204", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "\"Wednesday\":\"18h - 21h débutants 20h - 23h avancés \"" }, { "url": "https://www.frbe-kbsb-ksb.be/api/v1/clubs/anon/club/204", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "\"Sunday\":\"14h - 20h Open du club et des Interclubs \"" }, { "url": "https://www.frbe-kbsb-ksb.be/api/v1/clubs/anon/club/204", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "GC De Zeyp" }, { "url": "https://excelsior-chess-club.com/open-fide-de-lautomne-en-5-rondes/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "R1 13/9/26 R2 20/9/26" }, { "url": "https://excelsior-chess-club.com/ecole-dechecs-2/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "les cours débuteront le mercredi 03 septembre 2025" }, { "url": "https://excelsior-chess-club.com/ecole-dechecs-2/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Cette année nous proposons de cours avec NICA Radu-Catalin les mercredis de 18H00 à 21H00" }, { "url": "https://excelsior-chess-club.com/icn-2026-2027/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "5 204 Excelsior 1" }, { "url": "https://excelsior-chess-club.com/inscriptions-abonnements/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "80 euros (60 euro affiliation + 20 euro tous les tournois du club compris)" }, { "url": "https://excelsior-chess-club.com/ecole-dechecs-2/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Ces cours sont ouverts à tous les niveaux, que vous soyez débutant" }, { "url": "https://ratings.fide.com/a_tournaments.php?country=BEL&period=2026-07-01", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "David vs Goliath 2026" }, { "url": "https://ratings.fide.com/tournament_information.phtml?event=475339", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Criquillion, Guillaume (BEL)" }, { "url": "https://www.frbe-kbsb-ksb.be/api/v1/clubs/anon/club/204", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "\"last_name\":\"Criquillion\"" } ], "geocode": { "query": "Rue Zeyp 47, 1083 Ganshoren, Ganshoren, Belgium", "osm_type": "way", "osm_id": 240157274, "display_name": "47, Rue Zeyp - Zeypstraat, Het Heideken, Ganshoren, Brussels-Capital, 1083, Belgium", "date": "2026-10-14" }, "edited": "2026-10-14" }, { "slug": "les-deux-fous-d-etterbeek", "name": "Les Deux Fous d'Etterbeek", "name_local": null, "kind": "club", "sections": [ "play" ], "municipality": "Etterbeek", "address": "Rue des Champs 69, 1040 Etterbeek", "district": null, "lat": 50.830446, "lon": 4.393434, "coords_source": "geocoded_address", "indoor_outdoor": "indoor", "access": { "value": "unknown", "src": 0 }, "cost": { "value": "unknown", "amount": null, "src": 0 }, "equipment": { "boards": "unknown", "clocks": "unknown", "tables_count": null, "giant_pieces": "n/a", "src": 0 }, "audience": { "beginners_welcome": null, "kids": null, "adults_only": null, "languages": [], "src": 0 }, "formats": [ "blitz", "rated_tournaments" ], "season": { "value": "unknown", "months": null, "src": 0 }, "federation": { "member": true, "body": "FRBE / FEFB", "src": 0 }, "training": { "offers": [], "ages": null, "languages": [], "price": { "value": "unknown", "amount": null, "src": 0 }, "trial_lesson": null, "group_size": null, "coaches": [], "branches": null, "src": 0 }, "sessions": [ { "organiser": "Les Deux Fous d'Etterbeek", "weekday": "Wed", "time": "17:00-19:30", "note": "Hours printed in the federation register for the Espadon pool, salle Orca (2nd floor).", "live_page": "https://www.lesdeuxfousdetterbeek.be/", "src": 1 }, { "organiser": "Les Deux Fous d'Etterbeek", "weekday": "Sat", "time": "14:00-16:30", "note": "Hours printed in the federation register for the Espadon pool, salle Orca (2nd floor).", "live_page": "https://www.lesdeuxfousdetterbeek.be/", "src": 2 } ], "status": { "value": "active", "evidence": "The club site reports that its Open -20 (seven rounds of blitz) filled up on Saturday 10 October 2026, and lists a blitz open to all on Saturday 17 October 2026 at 14:30 in the salle Orca, piscine de l'Espadon, Etterbeek. The same room (salle Orca, Espadon pool) hosted a one-day masterclass for teachers on chess and strategy games in the classroom on 8 November 2025, led by members of the European Chess Union Education Commission (ticketing page of the company ChessPlus; fee 40 EUR). The FIDE list carries youth events in Etterbeek in 2026 (CEJB stage 1 on 17 January, JEF stage 5 on 27 June); their FIDE records name as chief organiser the person whom the federation register lists as president and tournament director of this club, and no page says who hosted them. A March 2025 guide lists the club as Les 2 Fous de Diogène, and the link \"2 Fous Diogène\" on the Excelsior Ganshoren list of Brussels clubs leads to the club's website.", "evidence_date": "2026-10-10", "moved_to": null, "src": 4 }, "contacts": { "website": "http://www.lesdeuxfousdetterbeek.be", "email": null, "phone": null, "social": [] }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.frbe-kbsb-ksb.be/api/v1/clubs/anon/club/207", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "\"name_long\":\"Les Deux Fous d'Etterbeek\"" }, { "url": "https://www.frbe-kbsb-ksb.be/api/v1/clubs/anon/club/207", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "\"Wednesday\":\"17h00-19h30\"" }, { "url": "https://www.frbe-kbsb-ksb.be/api/v1/clubs/anon/club/207", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "\"Saturday\":\"14h-16h30\"" }, { "url": "https://www.frbe-kbsb-ksb.be/api/v1/clubs/anon/club/207", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "69 rue des Champs" }, { "url": "https://www.lesdeuxfousdetterbeek.be/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Samedi 10 octobre, l'Open -20 des Deux Fous d'Etterbeek a fait le plein" }, { "url": "https://www.lesdeuxfousdetterbeek.be/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Blitz ouvert à tous ce samedi 17 octobre" }, { "url": "https://www.tickettailor.com/events/chessplus/1913936", "kind": "directory", "flag": "secondary", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Rue des Champs, 69 1040 Bruxelles Piscine Espadon, Salle Orca, 2e étage" }, { "url": "https://ratings.fide.com/a_tournaments.php?country=BEL&period=2026-02-01", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "CEJB 2026 - Etape 1" }, { "url": "https://ratings.fide.com/a_tournaments.php?country=BEL&period=2026-07-01", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "JEF 2026 - Etape 5" }, { "url": "https://ratings.fide.com/tournament_information.phtml?event=459361", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Toledo, Samuel (BEL)" }, { "url": "https://www.frbe-kbsb-ksb.be/api/v1/clubs/anon/club/207", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "\"last_name\":\"Toledo\"" }, { "url": "https://brusselschessclub.be/contenu/Chess_in_Brussels%202024-2025.pdf", "kind": "directory", "flag": "secondary", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "LES 2 FOUS DE DIOGENE (207)" }, { "url": "https://excelsior-chess-club.com/clubs-bruxelles/", "kind": "directory", "flag": "secondary", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "2 Fous Diogène" } ], "geocode": { "query": "Rue des Champs 69, 1040 Etterbeek, Etterbeek, Belgium", "osm_type": "node", "osm_id": 2384576570, "display_name": "69, Rue des Champs - Veldstraat, La Chasse - De Jacht, Etterbeek, Brussels-Capital, 1040, Belgium", "date": "2026-10-14" }, "edited": "2026-10-14" }, { "slug": "the-belgian-chess-club", "name": "The Belgian Chess Club", "name_local": null, "kind": "club", "sections": [ "play", "learn" ], "municipality": "Anderlecht", "address": "Place de la Vaillance 7, 1070 Anderlecht", "district": null, "lat": 50.835634, "lon": 4.306786, "coords_source": "geocoded_address", "indoor_outdoor": "indoor", "access": { "value": "unknown", "src": 0 }, "cost": { "value": "unknown", "amount": null, "src": 0 }, "equipment": { "boards": "unknown", "clocks": "unknown", "tables_count": null, "giant_pieces": "n/a", "src": 0 }, "audience": { "beginners_welcome": true, "kids": null, "adults_only": null, "languages": [], "src": 3 }, "formats": [ "rated_tournaments", "lessons", "blitz" ], "season": { "value": "unknown", "months": null, "src": 0 }, "federation": { "member": true, "body": "FRBE / FEFB", "src": 0 }, "training": { "offers": [ "group_classes", "adult_classes" ], "ages": null, "languages": [], "price": { "value": "unknown", "amount": null, "src": 0 }, "trial_lesson": null, "group_size": null, "coaches": [], "branches": null, "src": 2 }, "sessions": [ { "organiser": "The Belgian Chess Club", "weekday": "Wed", "time": "16:15-19:45", "note": "Chess lessons for all levels, whatever the age.", "live_page": "https://thebelgianchessclub.com/", "src": 2 }, { "organiser": "The Belgian Chess Club", "weekday": "Fri", "time": "19:00-20:00", "note": "Chess lessons for beginners.", "live_page": "https://thebelgianchessclub.com/", "src": 3 }, { "organiser": "The Belgian Chess Club", "weekday": "Fri", "time": "20:30", "note": "FIDE-rated blitz on the last Friday of the month, per a March 2025 guide; the FIDE list shows \"Blitz The Belgian\" on the last Friday of January, February, April, May and June 2026.", "live_page": null, "src": 8 } ], "status": { "value": "active", "evidence": "The FIDE list of rated tournaments for September 2026 carries \"THE BELGIAN CHESS CLUB BLITZ SEPTEMBER 2026\" in Anderlecht, dated 25 September 2026. The club site lists Wednesday and Friday activities at De Rinck, rounds 5 and 6 of its \"Open No Surrender\" on Friday 16 and Friday 23 October 2026 and an annual Tonoli memorial. The federation register lists Friday hours 18:30-24:00 at Gemeenschapscentrum De Rinck, Dapperheidsplein 7. The FIDE list also carries a series of Friday FIDE opens in Brussels (the latest, \"Open The Sorcerer's Apprentice 2026\", from 8 May to 19 June 2026) and the monthly \"Blitz The Belgian\" from January to June 2026. The FIDE record of these opens names as chief organiser the person whom the federation register lists as president and tournament director of this club, and a March 2025 guide names the same person as the club's information contact; no FIDE page names the club itself as organiser, so the link rests on the name alone.", "evidence_date": "2026-09-25", "moved_to": null, "src": 4 }, "contacts": { "website": "https://thebelgianchessclub.com/", "email": null, "phone": "+32 476 22 97 45", "social": [] }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.frbe-kbsb-ksb.be/api/v1/clubs/anon/club/209", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "\"name_long\":\"THE BELGIAN CHESS CLUB\"" }, { "url": "https://thebelgianchessclub.com/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Place de la vaillance 7" }, { "url": "https://thebelgianchessclub.com/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Cours d’échecs pour tous les niveaux – qu’importe l’âge." }, { "url": "https://thebelgianchessclub.com/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Cours d’échecs pour débutants" }, { "url": "https://ratings.fide.com/a_tournaments.php?country=BEL&period=2026-10-01", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "THE BELGIAN CHESS CLUB BLITZ SEPTEMBER 2026" }, { "url": "https://thebelgianchessclub.com/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Notre tournoi annuel" }, { "url": "https://thebelgianchessclub.com/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Open No Surrender" }, { "url": "https://thebelgianchessclub.com/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "+ (32) 476-22-97-45" }, { "url": "https://brusselschessclub.be/contenu/Chess_in_Brussels%202024-2025.pdf", "kind": "directory", "flag": "secondary", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Blitz open FIDE le dernier vendredi du mois à 20 heures 30" }, { "url": "https://brusselschessclub.be/contenu/Chess_in_Brussels%202024-2025.pdf", "kind": "directory", "flag": "secondary", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Informations: Cédric Sohet" }, { "url": "https://ratings.fide.com/a_tournaments.php?country=BEL&period=2026-06-01", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Open The Sorcerer's Apprentice 2026 Rondes 1-4" }, { "url": "https://ratings.fide.com/a_tournaments.php?country=BEL&period=2026-07-01", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Blitz The Belgian 06-2026" }, { "url": "https://ratings.fide.com/tournament_information.phtml?event=478225", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Sohet, Cedric (BEL)" }, { "url": "https://www.frbe-kbsb-ksb.be/api/v1/clubs/anon/club/209", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "\"last_name\":\"Sohet\"" } ], "geocode": { "query": "Place de la Vaillance 7, 1070 Anderlecht, Anderlecht, Belgium", "osm_type": "node", "osm_id": 9664508625, "display_name": "7, Place de la Vaillance - Dapperheidsplein, Meir, Anderlecht, Brussels-Capital, 1070, Belgium", "date": "2026-10-14" }, "edited": "2026-10-14" }, { "slug": "europchess", "name": "Europchess", "name_local": null, "kind": "club", "sections": [ "closed_membership", "play" ], "municipality": "Etterbeek", "address": "Rue Van Maerlant 2, 1040 Bruxelles", "district": null, "lat": null, "lon": null, "coords_source": null, "indoor_outdoor": "indoor", "access": { "value": "staff_only", "src": 7 }, "cost": { "value": "unknown", "amount": null, "src": 0 }, "equipment": { "boards": "unknown", "clocks": "unknown", "tables_count": null, "giant_pieces": "n/a", "src": 0 }, "audience": { "beginners_welcome": true, "kids": null, "adults_only": null, "languages": [], "src": 4 }, "formats": [ "blitz", "rated_tournaments", "lessons" ], "season": { "value": "unknown", "months": null, "src": 0 }, "federation": { "member": true, "body": "FRBE / FEFB", "src": 0 }, "training": { "offers": [], "ages": null, "languages": [], "price": { "value": "unknown", "amount": null, "src": 0 }, "trial_lesson": null, "group_size": null, "coaches": [], "branches": null, "src": 0 }, "sessions": [ { "organiser": "Europchess", "weekday": "Tue", "time": "18:00-20:00", "note": "Club evening: club games, training sessions, historical lectures, blitz tournaments, club championship rounds.", "live_page": "https://europchess.eu/activities", "src": 2 }, { "organiser": "Europchess", "weekday": "Wed", "time": "13:00-14:00", "note": "Informal lunchtime blitz in a building of the European Commission.", "live_page": "https://europchess.eu/activities", "src": 3 } ], "status": { "value": "active", "evidence": "The FIDE list of rated tournaments for September 2026 carries \"4th Europchess Afterwork Blitz 09-2026\", dated 1 September 2026. The club site lists club evenings on Tuesdays and a lunchtime blitz on Wednesdays, with dated programme entries for 20 and 27 October 2026. The club says it welcomes players linked to the European Union project; the register places it at the Foyer CEE of the European Commission building, Rue Van Maerlant 2. A March 2025 guide calls it a club reserved for the staff of the European Union, while the club's own site says it welcomes players of all levels linked to the European Union project. The guide prints the street number as 22, the federation register as 2. The register also lists different hours (Wednesday 13:00-15:00 and Thursday 18:00-21:00) from the club site.", "evidence_date": "2026-09-01", "moved_to": null, "src": 5 }, "contacts": { "website": "http://europchess.eu/", "email": null, "phone": null, "social": [] }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.frbe-kbsb-ksb.be/api/v1/clubs/anon/club/226", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "\"name_long\":\"EUROPCHESS\"" }, { "url": "https://www.frbe-kbsb-ksb.be/api/v1/clubs/anon/club/226", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "2, rue Van Maerlant" }, { "url": "https://europchess.eu/activities", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Tuesdays, 18.00–20.00" }, { "url": "https://europchess.eu/activities", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Wednesdays, 13.00–14.00" }, { "url": "https://europchess.eu/about", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Europchess welcomes players of all levels linked to the European Union project." }, { "url": "https://ratings.fide.com/a_tournaments.php?country=BEL&period=2026-10-01", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "4th Europchess Afterwork Blitz 09-2026" }, { "url": "https://europchess.eu/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Training session: Basic endgames (Gregory Maraite)" }, { "url": "https://brusselschessclub.be/contenu/Chess_in_Brussels%202024-2025.pdf", "kind": "directory", "flag": "secondary", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Cercle réservé au personnel de l’Union Européenne." }, { "url": "https://brusselschessclub.be/contenu/Chess_in_Brussels%202024-2025.pdf", "kind": "directory", "flag": "secondary", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "rue Van Maerlant, 22, 1040" } ], "edited": "2026-10-14" }, { "slug": "caissa-woluwe", "name": "Caïssa Woluwé", "name_local": null, "kind": "club", "sections": [ "play" ], "municipality": "Woluwe-Saint-Pierre", "address": "Rue de la Limite 48, 1150 Woluwe-Saint-Pierre", "district": null, "lat": 50.845834, "lon": 4.463241, "coords_source": "geocoded_address", "indoor_outdoor": "indoor", "access": { "value": "unknown", "src": 0 }, "cost": { "value": "paid", "amount": "Membership 2026-2027: 55 EUR adults, 35 EUR under 20, 20 EUR for a second club", "src": 5 }, "equipment": { "boards": "unknown", "clocks": "unknown", "tables_count": null, "giant_pieces": "n/a", "src": 0 }, "audience": { "beginners_welcome": null, "kids": null, "adults_only": null, "languages": [], "src": 0 }, "formats": [ "rated_tournaments" ], "season": { "value": "unknown", "months": null, "src": 0 }, "federation": { "member": true, "body": "FRBE / FEFB", "src": 0 }, "training": { "offers": [], "ages": null, "languages": [], "price": { "value": "unknown", "amount": null, "src": 0 }, "trial_lesson": null, "group_size": null, "coaches": [], "branches": null, "src": 0 }, "sessions": [ { "organiser": "Caïssa Woluwé", "weekday": "Wed", "time": "19:00", "note": "Club evening at the Centre A.R.A (federation register hours: 19H00).", "live_page": "https://www.caissa.be/", "src": 1 } ], "status": { "value": "active", "evidence": "On 22 September 2026 the club site posted that the club would exceptionally be closed on Wednesday 30 September, and announced its Automnal 2026 tournament. The register gives the playing place as the Centre A.R.A, Rue de la Limite 48, and also lists a separate seat address, which is not used here.", "evidence_date": "2026-09-22", "moved_to": null, "src": 3 }, "contacts": { "website": "https://www.caissa.be/", "email": null, "phone": null, "social": [] }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.frbe-kbsb-ksb.be/api/v1/clubs/anon/club/229", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "\"name_long\":\"CAISSA WOLUWE\"" }, { "url": "https://www.frbe-kbsb-ksb.be/api/v1/clubs/anon/club/229", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "\"Wednesday\":\"19H00\"" }, { "url": "https://www.frbe-kbsb-ksb.be/api/v1/clubs/anon/club/229", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Centre A.R.A - Accueil Rencontre Amitié" }, { "url": "https://www.caissa.be/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Le club sera exceptionnellement fermé le mercredi 30/09" }, { "url": "https://www.caissa.be/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Tournoi Automnal 2026" }, { "url": "https://www.caissa.be/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "adulte = 55 €, -20 ans = 35 €, 2e cercle = 20 €." } ], "geocode": { "query": "Rue de la Limite 48, 1150 Woluwe-Saint-Pierre, Woluwe-Saint-Pierre, Belgium", "osm_type": "node", "osm_id": 11034195219, "display_name": "48, Rue de la Limite - Grensstraat / Grensstraat - Rue de la Limite, Woluwe-Saint-Pierre - Sint-Pieters-Woluwe, Kraainem, Brussels-Capital, Flemish Brabant, Brussels-Capital, 1150, Belgium", "date": "2026-10-14" }, "edited": "2026-10-14" }, { "slug": "schaakclub-richard-reti", "name": "Schaakclub Richard Réti", "name_local": null, "kind": "club", "sections": [ "play" ], "municipality": "Bruxelles", "address": "Frans Vekemansstraat 131, 1120 Brussel", "district": null, "lat": 50.894338, "lon": 4.386777, "coords_source": "geocoded_address", "indoor_outdoor": "indoor", "access": { "value": "unknown", "src": 0 }, "cost": { "value": "unknown", "amount": null, "src": 0 }, "equipment": { "boards": "unknown", "clocks": "unknown", "tables_count": null, "giant_pieces": "n/a", "src": 0 }, "audience": { "beginners_welcome": null, "kids": null, "adults_only": null, "languages": [], "src": 0 }, "formats": [ "rated_tournaments", "blitz" ], "season": { "value": "unknown", "months": null, "src": 0 }, "federation": { "member": true, "body": "VSF / FRBE", "src": 0 }, "training": { "offers": [], "ages": null, "languages": [], "price": { "value": "unknown", "amount": null, "src": 0 }, "trial_lesson": null, "group_size": null, "coaches": [], "branches": null, "src": 0 }, "sessions": [ { "organiser": "Schaakclub Richard Réti", "weekday": "Fri", "time": "19:30", "note": "Club evening at 't Hiembeeks Kotteer (federation register: 19u30).", "live_page": "https://www.reti.be/", "src": 1 } ], "status": { "value": "active", "evidence": "The club site reports the first evening of its FIDE blitz tournament on Friday 20 March 2026, organised with The Belgian Chess Club; the FIDE list for March 2026 carries \"Blitz 3rd The Meaning of Chess Day 1\" in Brussels. The FIDE list for September 2026 also carries \"SCRR Clubkampioenschap 2026 Ronde 1\" in Brussel on 25 September 2026 (matched by abbreviation only). The club site is titled \"Schaken in de Brusselse Noordrand\".", "evidence_date": "2026-03-20", "moved_to": null, "src": 3 }, "contacts": { "website": "https://www.reti.be/", "email": null, "phone": null, "social": [] }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.frbe-kbsb-ksb.be/api/v1/clubs/anon/club/240", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "\"name_long\":\"SC Richard Réti\"" }, { "url": "https://www.frbe-kbsb-ksb.be/api/v1/clubs/anon/club/240", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "\"Friday\":\"19u30-\"" }, { "url": "https://www.frbe-kbsb-ksb.be/api/v1/clubs/anon/club/240", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Frans Vekemansstraat 131" }, { "url": "https://www.reti.be/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Op vrijdag 20 maart organiseerden we de eerste avond van ons FIDE Blitztornooi" }, { "url": "https://ratings.fide.com/a_tournaments.php?country=BEL&period=2026-04-01", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Blitz 3rd The Meaning of Chess Day 1" } ], "geocode": { "query": "Frans Vekemansstraat 131, 1120 Brussel, Bruxelles, Belgium", "osm_type": "node", "osm_id": 2571575709, "display_name": "131, Rue François Vekemans - Frans Vekemansstraat, Over-Heembeek, Neder-Over-Heembeek, Brussels, Brussels-Capital, 1120, Belgium", "date": "2026-10-14" }, "edited": "2026-10-14" }, { "slug": "brussels-chess-club", "name": "Brussels Chess Club", "name_local": null, "kind": "club", "sections": [ "play", "learn" ], "municipality": "Uccle", "address": "Rue Egide Van Ophem 46, 1180 Uccle", "district": null, "lat": 50.792985, "lon": 4.330495, "coords_source": "geocoded_address", "indoor_outdoor": "indoor", "access": { "value": "unknown", "src": 0 }, "cost": { "value": "unknown", "amount": null, "src": 0 }, "equipment": { "boards": "unknown", "clocks": "unknown", "tables_count": null, "giant_pieces": "n/a", "src": 0 }, "audience": { "beginners_welcome": null, "kids": null, "adults_only": null, "languages": [], "src": 0 }, "formats": [ "rated_tournaments", "blitz", "lessons" ], "season": { "value": "unknown", "months": null, "src": 0 }, "federation": { "member": true, "body": "FRBE / FEFB / VSF", "src": 6 }, "training": { "offers": [ "group_classes" ], "ages": null, "languages": [], "price": { "value": "unknown", "amount": null, "src": 0 }, "trial_lesson": null, "group_size": null, "coaches": [], "branches": null, "src": 4 }, "sessions": [ { "organiser": "Brussels Chess Club", "weekday": "Mon", "time": "17:25-18:55", "note": "Group lessons (cours/lessen), from 7 September 2026 per the club site.", "live_page": "https://www.brusselschessclub.be/", "src": 3 }, { "organiser": "Brussels Chess Club", "weekday": "Mon", "time": "19:00-23:00", "note": "Tournaments (tournois/toernooien) at Het Huys.", "live_page": "https://www.brusselschessclub.be/", "src": 3 } ], "status": { "value": "active", "evidence": "The club site lists an Open FIDE every Monday from 31 August to 7 December 2026 (except 26 October and 2 November); the FIDE list for September 2026 carries \"Brussels Open Fall 2026\" round 5 dated 28 September 2026. The site also lists a Back2School FIDE blitz on 24 August 2026 and group lessons from 7 September 2026, with further courses on Wednesday and Saturday at the Parascolaire d'Uccle. The register gives the playing place as Het Huys, number 46, and also lists a different seat address, which is not used here.", "evidence_date": "2026-09-28", "moved_to": null, "src": 5 }, "contacts": { "website": "https://www.brusselschessclub.be/", "email": null, "phone": null, "social": [] }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.frbe-kbsb-ksb.be/api/v1/clubs/anon/club/244", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "\"name_long\":\"Brussels Chess Club\"" }, { "url": "https://www.brusselschessclub.be/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Het Huys, Rue Egide Van Ophem 46 à 1180 Uccle" }, { "url": "https://www.brusselschessclub.be/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Tous les lundis du 31 août au 7 décembre 2026" }, { "url": "https://www.frbe-kbsb-ksb.be/api/v1/clubs/anon/club/244", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "\"Monday\":\"17h25-18h55>Cours/Lessen 19h-23h>Tournois/Toernooien\"" }, { "url": "https://www.brusselschessclub.be/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Les cours collectifs le lundi (àpd 07/09/2026)" }, { "url": "https://ratings.fide.com/a_tournaments.php?country=BEL&period=2026-10-01", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Brussels Open Fall 2026 Round 5" }, { "url": "https://www.brusselschessclub.be/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Membre bruxellois de la FRBE (fédération belge)" } ], "geocode": { "query": "Rue Egide Van Ophem 46, 1180 Uccle, Uccle, Belgium", "osm_type": "node", "osm_id": 11780624445, "display_name": "46, Rue Égide Van Ophem - Égide Van Ophemstraat, Uccle - Ukkel, Brussels-Capital, 1180, Belgium", "date": "2026-10-14" }, "edited": "2026-10-14" }, { "slug": "club-d-echecs-de-watermael-boitsfort", "name": "Club d'échecs de Watermael-Boitsfort", "name_local": null, "kind": "club", "sections": [ "play", "learn" ], "municipality": "Watermael-Boitsfort", "address": "Avenue Delleur 39-43, 1170 Watermael-Boitsfort", "district": null, "lat": null, "lon": null, "coords_source": null, "indoor_outdoor": "indoor", "access": { "value": "unknown", "src": 0 }, "cost": { "value": "unknown", "amount": null, "src": 0 }, "equipment": { "boards": "unknown", "clocks": "unknown", "tables_count": null, "giant_pieces": "n/a", "src": 0 }, "audience": { "beginners_welcome": null, "kids": true, "adults_only": null, "languages": [], "src": 4 }, "formats": [ "rated_tournaments", "lessons" ], "season": { "value": "unknown", "months": null, "src": 0 }, "federation": { "member": true, "body": "FRBE / FEFB", "src": 0 }, "training": { "offers": [ "group_classes", "kids_classes", "adult_classes" ], "ages": "from 7 years", "languages": [], "price": { "value": "unknown", "amount": null, "src": 0 }, "trial_lesson": null, "group_size": null, "coaches": [], "branches": null, "src": 4 }, "sessions": [ { "organiser": "Club d'échecs de Watermael-Boitsfort", "weekday": "Thu", "time": "19:00-23:00", "note": "Weekly tournament evening at the Centre Culturel WABO.", "live_page": "http://www.cewb.eu/", "src": 1 }, { "organiser": "Club d'échecs de Watermael-Boitsfort", "weekday": "Wed", "time": null, "note": "Chess school lessons for children from 7, teenagers and adults.", "live_page": "http://www.cewb.eu/", "src": 3 } ], "status": { "value": "active", "evidence": "The FIDE list for September 2026 carries \"Boitsfort Autumn Open 2026 Rondes 1\" in Bruxelles, dated 24 September 2026 (matched by the word Boitsfort). The club site lists open tournaments from September to December and closed tournaments from February to May, with the club evening on Thursdays at the Centre Culturel - Gemeenschapscentrum WABO.", "evidence_date": "2026-09-24", "moved_to": null, "src": 5 }, "contacts": { "website": "http://www.cewb.eu/", "email": null, "phone": null, "social": [] }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.frbe-kbsb-ksb.be/api/v1/clubs/anon/club/239", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "\"name_long\":\"CERCLE DES ECHECS DE WATERMAEL-BOITSFORT\"" }, { "url": "http://www.cewb.eu/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "tous les jeudis de 19h00 à 23h00" }, { "url": "http://www.cewb.eu/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Avenue Delleur 39-43, 1170 Watermael-Boitsfort" }, { "url": "http://www.cewb.eu/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Les cours se déroulent tous les mercredis dans une ambiance calme et détendue." }, { "url": "http://www.cewb.eu/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Nos cours s'adressent aux enfants à partir de 7 ans" }, { "url": "https://ratings.fide.com/a_tournaments.php?country=BEL&period=2026-10-01", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Boitsfort Autumn Open 2026 Rondes 1" } ] }, { "slug": "ixelles-chess-club", "name": "Ixelles Chess Club", "name_local": null, "kind": "club", "sections": [ "play" ], "municipality": "Ixelles", "address": "Rue de la Digue 10, 1050 Ixelles", "district": null, "lat": 50.828083, "lon": 4.374039, "coords_source": "geocoded_address", "indoor_outdoor": "indoor", "access": { "value": "open_to_all", "src": 9 }, "cost": { "value": "paid", "amount": "2 EUR towards costs (games and clocks) for the weekly friendly tournaments", "src": 8 }, "equipment": { "boards": "unknown", "clocks": "unknown", "tables_count": null, "giant_pieces": "n/a", "src": 0 }, "audience": { "beginners_welcome": null, "kids": null, "adults_only": null, "languages": [], "src": 0 }, "formats": [ "blitz", "rapid", "chess960", "rated_tournaments" ], "season": { "value": "unknown", "months": null, "src": 0 }, "federation": { "member": true, "body": "FRBE / FEFB", "src": 0 }, "training": { "offers": [], "ages": null, "languages": [], "price": { "value": "unknown", "amount": null, "src": 0 }, "trial_lesson": null, "group_size": null, "coaches": [], "branches": null, "src": 0 }, "sessions": [ { "organiser": "Ixelles Chess Club", "weekday": "Tue", "time": "19:00", "note": "Friendly blitz tournament at the Toots Jazz Club (not FIDE-rated; the club advises registering 30 minutes before).", "live_page": "https://www.ixelleschessclub.com/", "src": 1 }, { "organiser": "Ixelles Chess Club", "weekday": "Sat", "time": "15:30", "note": "Friendly rapid and blitz tournament at the café Montmartre, Ixelles.", "live_page": "https://www.ixelleschessclub.com/", "src": 2 }, { "organiser": "Ixelles Chess Club", "weekday": "Thu", "time": "19:00", "note": "Chess 960 at La Tourelle, Ixelles, on the third Thursday of the month per the club text; another sentence on the same page says the second Thursday of the month is a Freestyle evening.", "live_page": "https://www.ixelleschessclub.com/", "src": 3 } ], "status": { "value": "active", "evidence": "The club site lists results of its rapid tournament dated 10 October 2026 and of a blitz tournament dated 6 October 2026, a calendar entry \"Chess 960 à la Tourelle\" on Thursday 15 October 2026 at 19:00, and 11 teams for the 2026-2027 national interclubs. The site says weekly friendly tournaments are open to all, with no obligation to belong to a club. Home interclub matches are at the Maison de Quartier Malibran, Rue de la Digue 10, 1050 Ixelles. The club was formerly named Cercle d'échecs le Pantin and became an ASBL on 3 September 2025. The Tuesday blitz is held at the Toots Jazz Club, Rue des Chapeliers 6 (address from a jazz venue directory), and the Saturday tournament at the café Le Montmartre, Chaussée de Boondael 344 (address from a guide updated in March 2025).", "evidence_date": "2026-10-10", "moved_to": null, "src": 5 }, "contacts": { "website": "https://www.ixelleschessclub.com/", "email": null, "phone": null, "social": [] }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.frbe-kbsb-ksb.be/api/v1/clubs/anon/club/278", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "\"name_long\":\"IXELLES CHESS CLUB\"" }, { "url": "https://www.ixelleschessclub.com/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "le mardi au Toots Jazz Club (Blitz)," }, { "url": "https://www.ixelleschessclub.com/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "le samedi au café le Montmartre (Rapide + blitz)" }, { "url": "https://www.ixelleschessclub.com/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "les 3e jeudis du mois un Chess 960 à la Tourelle (Ixelles)" }, { "url": "https://www.ixelleschessclub.com/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "le 2e du jeudis du mois (un Freestyle)" }, { "url": "https://www.ixelleschessclub.com/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Résultats Rapides 10/10/2026" }, { "url": "https://www.ixelleschessclub.com/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Maison de Quartier Malibran, 10 rue de la Digue" }, { "url": "https://www.ixelleschessclub.com/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Anciennement appelé \"Cercle d'échecs le Pantin\"" }, { "url": "https://www.ixelleschessclub.com/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Prévoyez 2€ pour la participation aux frais (jeux et pendules)" }, { "url": "https://www.ixelleschessclub.com/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "sont ouverts à toutes et tous, sans obligation d'être affilié à un club" }, { "url": "https://jazzinbelgium.be/en/venues/4231/toots-jazz-club", "kind": "directory", "flag": "secondary", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Rue des Chapeliers 6, Bruxelles, Belgique" }, { "url": "https://brusselschessclub.be/contenu/Chess_in_Brussels%202024-2025.pdf", "kind": "directory", "flag": "secondary", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Café « Le Montmartre », Chaussée de Boondael, 344, 1050 Ixelles" } ], "geocode": { "query": "Rue de la Digue 10, 1050 Ixelles, Ixelles, Belgium", "osm_type": "node", "osm_id": 13907224673, "display_name": "10, Rue de la Digue - Damstraat, Flagey, Ixelles - Elsene, Brussels-Capital, 1050, Belgium", "date": "2026-10-14" }, "edited": "2026-10-14" }, { "slug": "cercle-d-echecs-de-la-woluwe-1200", "name": "Cercle d'Echecs de la Woluwe 1200", "name_local": null, "kind": "club", "sections": [ "play", "learn" ], "municipality": "Woluwe-Saint-Lambert", "address": "Avenue Prekelinden 78, 1200 Woluwe-Saint-Lambert", "district": null, "lat": 50.842616, "lon": 4.409122, "coords_source": "geocoded_address", "indoor_outdoor": "indoor", "access": { "value": "unknown", "src": 0 }, "cost": { "value": "unknown", "amount": null, "src": 0 }, "equipment": { "boards": "unknown", "clocks": "unknown", "tables_count": null, "giant_pieces": "n/a", "src": 0 }, "audience": { "beginners_welcome": null, "kids": null, "adults_only": null, "languages": [], "src": 0 }, "formats": [ "rated_tournaments", "lessons" ], "season": { "value": "unknown", "months": null, "src": 0 }, "federation": { "member": true, "body": "FRBE / FEFB", "src": 0 }, "training": { "offers": [ "group_classes" ], "ages": null, "languages": [], "price": { "value": "unknown", "amount": null, "src": 0 }, "trial_lesson": null, "group_size": null, "coaches": [], "branches": null, "src": 2 }, "sessions": [ { "organiser": "Cercle d'Echecs de la Woluwe 1200", "weekday": "Tue", "time": "18:15-19:15", "note": "Courses at the Maison de la Jeunesse, per the federation register.", "live_page": null, "src": 1 }, { "organiser": "Cercle d'Echecs de la Woluwe 1200", "weekday": "Sat", "time": "10:30-12:15", "note": "Courses at the Maison de la Jeunesse, per the federation register.", "live_page": null, "src": 1 } ], "status": { "value": "active", "evidence": "The federation register lists the club with courses on Tuesday and Saturday and interclub matches at the Maison de la Jeunesse, Avenue Prekelinden 78. The 2026-2027 national interclub division list on the Excelsior Ganshoren site includes a team \"Woluwe 1200 2\". No dated event of the club itself was found.", "evidence_date": null, "moved_to": null, "src": 3 }, "contacts": { "website": null, "email": null, "phone": null, "social": [] }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.frbe-kbsb-ksb.be/api/v1/clubs/anon/club/202", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "\"name_long\":\"Cercle d'Echecs de la Woluwe 1200\"" }, { "url": "https://www.frbe-kbsb-ksb.be/api/v1/clubs/anon/club/202", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "\"Saturday\":\"maison Jeunesse-10h30 à 12h15\"" }, { "url": "https://www.frbe-kbsb-ksb.be/api/v1/clubs/anon/club/202", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "avenue Prekelinden,78 1200 WSL" }, { "url": "https://excelsior-chess-club.com/icn-2026-2027/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "1 202 Woluwe 1200 2" } ], "geocode": { "query": "Avenue Prekelinden 78, 1200 Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, Belgium", "osm_type": "way", "osm_id": 223674773, "display_name": "78, Avenue Prekelinden - Prekelindenlaan, Woluwe-Saint-Lambert - Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe, Brussels-Capital, 1200, Belgium", "date": "2026-10-14" }, "edited": "2026-10-14" }, { "slug": "royale-la-silencieuse-de-bruxelles", "name": "Royale La Silencieuse de Bruxelles", "name_local": null, "kind": "club", "sections": [ "play" ], "municipality": "Saint-Josse-ten-Noode", "address": "Rue Verte 50, 1210 Saint-Josse-ten-Noode", "district": null, "lat": 50.857259, "lon": 4.364602, "coords_source": "geocoded_address", "indoor_outdoor": "indoor", "access": { "value": "unknown", "src": 0 }, "cost": { "value": "unknown", "amount": null, "src": 0 }, "equipment": { "boards": "unknown", "clocks": "unknown", "tables_count": null, "giant_pieces": "n/a", "src": 0 }, "audience": { "beginners_welcome": null, "kids": null, "adults_only": null, "languages": [], "src": 0 }, "formats": [], "season": { "value": "unknown", "months": null, "src": 0 }, "federation": { "member": null, "body": null, "src": 0 }, "training": { "offers": [], "ages": null, "languages": [], "price": { "value": "unknown", "amount": null, "src": 0 }, "trial_lesson": null, "group_size": null, "coaches": [], "branches": null, "src": 0 }, "sessions": [], "status": { "value": "unconfirmed", "evidence": "Listed among the chess clubs on the sport.brussels discipline page (undated). It does not appear in the federation club register read on 14 October 2026 and no club page, schedule or dated event was found, so it is not known whether it is still active.", "evidence_date": null, "moved_to": null, "src": 0 }, "contacts": { "website": null, "email": null, "phone": null, "social": [] }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.sport.brussels/en/disciplines/chess", "kind": "directory", "flag": "secondary", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Royale \"La Silencieuse\" de Bruxelles Rue Verte, 50 1210 - Saint-Josse-Ten-Noode" } ], "geocode": { "query": "Rue Verte 50, 1210 Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, Belgium", "osm_type": "node", "osm_id": 13038934997, "display_name": "50, Rue Verte - Groenstraat, Saint-Josse-ten-Noode - Sint-Joost-ten-Node, Brussels-Capital, 1210, Belgium", "date": "2026-10-14" }, "edited": "2026-10-14" }, { "slug": "le-pantin", "name": "Le Pantin", "name_local": null, "kind": "cafe_bar", "sections": [ "play" ], "municipality": "Ixelles", "address": "Chaussée d'Ixelles 355, 1050 Ixelles", "district": null, "lat": 50.828075, "lon": 4.370998, "coords_source": "geocoded_address", "indoor_outdoor": "indoor", "access": { "value": "unknown", "src": 0 }, "cost": { "value": "unknown", "amount": null, "src": 0 }, "equipment": { "boards": "unknown", "clocks": "unknown", "tables_count": null, "giant_pieces": "n/a", "src": 0 }, "audience": { "beginners_welcome": null, "kids": null, "adults_only": null, "languages": [], "src": 0 }, "formats": [], "season": { "value": "unknown", "months": null, "src": 0 }, "federation": { "member": null, "body": null, "src": 0 }, "training": { "offers": [], "ages": null, "languages": [], "price": { "value": "unknown", "amount": null, "src": 0 }, "trial_lesson": null, "group_size": null, "coaches": [], "branches": null, "src": 0 }, "sessions": [], "status": { "value": "moved", "evidence": "An Inside Brussels guide updated on 10 October 2018 says the café hosted blitz tournaments every Tuesday from 18:30, and a guide updated in March 2025 still gave it as the Tuesday blitz venue of the Ixelles Chess Club and as a place for free play all day. The Ixelles Chess Club site says the club was formerly named after this bar, where it was created in the 1990s, and now holds its Tuesday blitz at the Toots Jazz Club, so the club's chess evening has left this café. No current chess activity at the café was found, and whether free play continues here is not stated.", "evidence_date": "2026-10-06", "moved_to": "toots-jazz-club", "src": 4 }, "contacts": { "website": null, "email": null, "phone": null, "social": [] }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.sport.brussels/en/disciplines/chess", "kind": "directory", "flag": "secondary", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Le Pantin Chaussée d'Ixelles, 355 1050 - Ixelles" }, { "url": "https://en.insidebrussels.be/V2/Brussels/play-chess-in-brussels/", "kind": "press", "flag": "secondary", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Every Tuesday from 18:30 PM, Pantin hosts Blitz tournaments." }, { "url": "https://www.ixelleschessclub.com/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Anciennement appelé \"Cercle d'échecs le Pantin\"" }, { "url": "https://brusselschessclub.be/contenu/Chess_in_Brussels%202024-2025.pdf", "kind": "directory", "flag": "secondary", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Local : Café « Le Pantin », Chaussée d’Ixelles, 355, 1050 Ixelles" }, { "url": "https://www.ixelleschessclub.com/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Blitz au Toots Jazz Club" } ], "geocode": { "query": "Chaussée d'Ixelles 355, 1050 Ixelles, Ixelles, Belgium", "osm_type": "way", "osm_id": 137474128, "display_name": "355, Chaussée d'Ixelles - Elsense Steenweg, Flagey, Ixelles - Elsene, Brussels-Capital, 1050, Belgium", "date": "2026-10-14" }, "edited": "2026-10-14" }, { "slug": "halles-saint-gery", "name": "Halles Saint-Géry", "name_local": null, "kind": "cafe_bar", "sections": [ "play" ], "municipality": "Bruxelles", "address": "Place Saint-Géry 1, 1000 Bruxelles", "district": null, "lat": 50.848115, "lon": 4.347447, "coords_source": "geocoded_address", "indoor_outdoor": "indoor", "access": { "value": "unknown", "src": 0 }, "cost": { "value": "unknown", "amount": null, "src": 0 }, "equipment": { "boards": "unknown", "clocks": "unknown", "tables_count": null, "giant_pieces": "n/a", "src": 0 }, "audience": { "beginners_welcome": null, "kids": null, "adults_only": null, "languages": [], "src": 0 }, "formats": [], "season": { "value": "unknown", "months": null, "src": 0 }, "federation": { "member": null, "body": null, "src": 0 }, "training": { "offers": [], "ages": null, "languages": [], "price": { "value": "unknown", "amount": null, "src": 0 }, "trial_lesson": null, "group_size": null, "coaches": [], "branches": null, "src": 0 }, "sessions": [], "status": { "value": "unconfirmed", "evidence": "An Inside Brussels guide updated on 10 October 2018 names the café among those in the centre of Brussels that chess players have flocked to, and gives its opening hours as every day from 10:00 to 01:00. No current source for chess there was found. A guide to chess in Brussels updated in March 2025 lists the Café des Halles in these halls: free play all day, with boards, pieces and clocks lent against an identity document. No later source was found.", "evidence_date": "2025-03", "moved_to": null, "src": 2 }, "contacts": { "website": null, "email": null, "phone": null, "social": [] }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://en.insidebrussels.be/V2/Brussels/play-chess-in-brussels/", "kind": "press", "flag": "secondary", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Address: 1 Place Saint-Géry, 1000 Brussels" }, { "url": "https://en.insidebrussels.be/V2/Brussels/play-chess-in-brussels/", "kind": "press", "flag": "secondary", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "the halls are open every day from 10:00 AM to 1:00 AM" }, { "url": "https://brusselschessclub.be/contenu/Chess_in_Brussels%202024-2025.pdf", "kind": "directory", "flag": "secondary", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Possibilité de jouer librement toute la journée." }, { "url": "https://brusselschessclub.be/contenu/Chess_in_Brussels%202024-2025.pdf", "kind": "directory", "flag": "secondary", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "On y reçoit échiquiers, pièces et horloges sur remise d’un document d’identité." } ], "geocode": { "query": "Place Saint-Géry 1, 1000 Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium", "osm_type": "node", "osm_id": 11390036398, "display_name": "1, Place Saint-Géry - Sint-Goriksplein, Quartier Saint-Géry - Sint-Gorikswijk, Pentagon, Brussels, Brussels-Capital, 1000, Belgium", "date": "2026-10-14" }, "edited": "2026-10-14" }, { "slug": "athenee-ixelles", "name": "Athénée", "name_local": null, "kind": "cafe_bar", "sections": [ "play" ], "municipality": "Ixelles", "address": null, "district": null, "lat": null, "lon": null, "coords_source": null, "indoor_outdoor": "indoor", "access": { "value": "unknown", "src": 0 }, "cost": { "value": "unknown", "amount": null, "src": 0 }, "equipment": { "boards": "unknown", "clocks": "unknown", "tables_count": null, "giant_pieces": "n/a", "src": 0 }, "audience": { "beginners_welcome": null, "kids": null, "adults_only": null, "languages": [], "src": 0 }, "formats": [], "season": { "value": "unknown", "months": null, "src": 0 }, "federation": { "member": null, "body": null, "src": 0 }, "training": { "offers": [], "ages": null, "languages": [], "price": { "value": "unknown", "amount": null, "src": 0 }, "trial_lesson": null, "group_size": null, "coaches": [], "branches": null, "src": 0 }, "sessions": [], "status": { "value": "unconfirmed", "evidence": "An Inside Brussels guide updated on 10 October 2018 describes a café in the Saint-Boniface district of Ixelles where chess players mix with students and locals. The guide gives no street address and no chess evening; no current source was found.", "evidence_date": "2018-10-10", "moved_to": null, "src": 0 }, "contacts": { "website": null, "email": null, "phone": null, "social": [] }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://en.insidebrussels.be/V2/Brussels/play-chess-in-brussels/", "kind": "press", "flag": "secondary", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "The athenaeum in Ixelles. Chess in Saint-Boniface" } ] }, { "slug": "cafe-montmartre-ixelles", "name": "Café Montmartre", "name_local": null, "kind": "cafe_bar", "sections": [ "play" ], "municipality": "Ixelles", "address": "Chaussée de Boondael 344, 1050 Ixelles", "district": null, "lat": 50.818299, "lon": 4.385288, "coords_source": "geocoded_address", "indoor_outdoor": "indoor", "access": { "value": "unknown", "src": 0 }, "cost": { "value": "unknown", "amount": null, "src": 0 }, "equipment": { "boards": "unknown", "clocks": "unknown", "tables_count": null, "giant_pieces": "n/a", "src": 0 }, "audience": { "beginners_welcome": null, "kids": null, "adults_only": null, "languages": [], "src": 0 }, "formats": [], "season": { "value": "unknown", "months": null, "src": 0 }, "federation": { "member": null, "body": null, "src": 0 }, "training": { "offers": [], "ages": null, "languages": [], "price": { "value": "unknown", "amount": null, "src": 0 }, "trial_lesson": null, "group_size": null, "coaches": [], "branches": null, "src": 0 }, "sessions": [ { "organiser": "Ixelles Chess Club", "weekday": "Sat", "time": "15:30", "note": "Friendly rapid and blitz tournament held by the Ixelles Chess Club at the café.", "live_page": "https://www.ixelleschessclub.com/", "src": 0 } ], "status": { "value": "active", "evidence": "The Ixelles Chess Club site says its Saturday rapid and blitz tournament is held at the café Montmartre in Ixelles and that players are often found there; the club lists rapid results dated 10 October 2026. The site gives no street address for the café. A guide updated in March 2025 gives the address as Chaussée de Boondael 344, 1050 Ixelles and says free play is possible all day.", "evidence_date": "2026-10-10", "moved_to": null, "src": 2 }, "contacts": { "website": null, "email": null, "phone": null, "social": [] }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.ixelleschessclub.com/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "le samedi au café le Montmartre (Rapide + blitz)" }, { "url": "https://www.ixelleschessclub.com/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Vous trouverez souvent des joueurs au Café Montmartre." }, { "url": "https://www.ixelleschessclub.com/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Résultats Rapides 10/10/2026" }, { "url": "https://brusselschessclub.be/contenu/Chess_in_Brussels%202024-2025.pdf", "kind": "directory", "flag": "secondary", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Café « Le Montmartre », Chaussée de Boondael, 344, 1050 Ixelles" } ], "geocode": { "query": "Chaussée de Boondael 344, 1050 Ixelles, Ixelles, Belgium", "osm_type": "way", "osm_id": 134396915, "display_name": "344, Chaussée de Boondael - Boondaalse Steenweg, Petite Suisse - Klein-Zwitserland, Ixelles - Elsene, Brussels-Capital, 1050, Belgium", "date": "2026-10-14" }, "edited": "2026-10-14" }, { "slug": "la-tourelle-ixelles", "name": "La Tourelle", "name_local": null, "kind": "cafe_bar", "sections": [ "play" ], "municipality": "Ixelles", "address": null, "district": null, "lat": null, "lon": null, "coords_source": null, "indoor_outdoor": "indoor", "access": { "value": "unknown", "src": 0 }, "cost": { "value": "unknown", "amount": null, "src": 0 }, "equipment": { "boards": "unknown", "clocks": "unknown", "tables_count": null, "giant_pieces": "n/a", "src": 0 }, "audience": { "beginners_welcome": null, "kids": null, "adults_only": null, "languages": [], "src": 0 }, "formats": [ "chess960" ], "season": { "value": "unknown", "months": null, "src": 0 }, "federation": { "member": null, "body": null, "src": 0 }, "training": { "offers": [], "ages": null, "languages": [], "price": { "value": "unknown", "amount": null, "src": 0 }, "trial_lesson": null, "group_size": null, "coaches": [], "branches": null, "src": 0 }, "sessions": [ { "organiser": "Ixelles Chess Club", "weekday": "Thu", "time": "19:00", "note": "Chess 960 evening, monthly (third Thursday per the club text; second Thursday per another sentence on the same page).", "live_page": "https://www.ixelleschessclub.com/", "src": 0 } ], "status": { "value": "active", "evidence": "The Ixelles Chess Club site says the club holds a Chess 960 evening at La Tourelle in Ixelles on the third Thursday of the month, and its calendar for October 2026 lists \"Chess 960 à la Tourelle\" on Thursday 15 October at 19:00. Another sentence on the same page calls the second Thursday of the month a Freestyle evening. No dated report of a past evening and no street address were found.", "evidence_date": null, "moved_to": null, "src": 0 }, "contacts": { "website": null, "email": null, "phone": null, "social": [] }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.ixelleschessclub.com/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "les 3e jeudis du mois un Chess 960 à la Tourelle (Ixelles)" }, { "url": "https://www.ixelleschessclub.com/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Chess 960 à la Tourelle" } ] }, { "slug": "memorial-jose-et-hilda-tonoli", "name": "Memorial Jose & Hilda Tonoli", "name_local": null, "kind": "tournament", "sections": [ "play" ], "municipality": "Anderlecht", "address": "Place de la Vaillance 7, 1070 Anderlecht", "district": null, "lat": 50.835634, "lon": 4.306786, "coords_source": "geocoded_address", "indoor_outdoor": "indoor", "access": { "value": "unknown", "src": 0 }, "cost": { "value": "paid", "amount": "25 EUR on the day, 20 EUR for under 16 and over 65, 5 EUR less with online pre-registration and payment before 22 August (2026 edition)", "src": 6 }, "equipment": { "boards": "unknown", "clocks": "unknown", "tables_count": null, "giant_pieces": "n/a", "src": 0 }, "audience": { "beginners_welcome": null, "kids": null, "adults_only": null, "languages": [], "src": 0 }, "formats": [ "rapid", "rated_tournaments" ], "season": { "value": "unknown", "months": null, "src": 0 }, "federation": { "member": null, "body": null, "src": 0 }, "training": { "offers": [], "ages": null, "languages": [], "price": { "value": "unknown", "amount": null, "src": 0 }, "trial_lesson": null, "group_size": null, "coaches": [], "branches": null, "src": 0 }, "sessions": [], "status": { "value": "active", "evidence": "The 19th edition, titled Belgian Championship Rapid Chess on chess-results.com, is dated 30 August 2026 in the FIDE list; the 18th edition is listed for 31 August 2025. The club site of The Belgian Chess Club calls it its annual tournament and leaves the next date open (\"__/08/2027\"). The event page and the club website do not give the venue. The chess-results tournament search lists the organiser as THE BELGIAN CHESS CLUB (209) and the venue as De Rinck, Place de la Vaillance 7, Anderlecht, the club's own playing place. The club's registration page shows entry at 25 EUR on the day, 20 EUR for under 16 and over 65, and 5 EUR less for online pre-registration and payment before 22 August.", "evidence_date": "2026-08-30", "moved_to": null, "src": 2 }, "contacts": { "website": null, "email": null, "phone": null, "social": [] }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://thebelgianchessclub.com/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Mémorial tonoli Chaque année" }, { "url": "https://s2.chess-results.com/tnr1488552.aspx?lan=1", "kind": "directory", "flag": "secondary", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "19th MEMORIAL JOSE & HILDA TONOLI - BELGIAN CHAMPIONSHIP RAPID CHESS" }, { "url": "https://ratings.fide.com/a_tournaments.php?country=BEL&period=2026-10-01", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "19th Memorial Jose" }, { "url": "https://ratings.fide.com/a_tournaments.php?country=BEL&period=2025-10-01", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "18th Memorial Jose" }, { "url": "https://s2.chess-results.com/TurnierSuche.aspx?lan=1", "kind": "directory", "flag": "secondary", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "De Rinck - Place de la Vaillance 7 - Dapperheidsplein 7" }, { "url": "https://s2.chess-results.com/TurnierSuche.aspx?lan=1", "kind": "directory", "flag": "secondary", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "THE BELGIAN CHESS CLUB (209)" }, { "url": "https://thebelgianchessclub.com/tonoli/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "25€ sur place." }, { "url": "https://thebelgianchessclub.com/tonoli/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Préinscriptions via internet ET paiement avant le 22 aout: - 5 €" }, { "url": "https://thebelgianchessclub.com/tonoli/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "20€ (-16 et +65 ans)" } ], "geocode": { "query": "Place de la Vaillance 7, 1070 Anderlecht, Anderlecht, Belgium", "osm_type": "node", "osm_id": 9664508625, "display_name": "7, Place de la Vaillance - Dapperheidsplein, Meir, Anderlecht, Brussels-Capital, 1070, Belgium", "date": "2026-10-14" }, "edited": "2026-10-14" }, { "slug": "paul-marcus-memorial", "name": "Paul Marcus Memorial FIDE Grand Rapid", "name_local": null, "kind": "tournament", "sections": [ "play" ], "municipality": "Uccle", "address": "Rue Egide Van Ophem 46, 1180 Uccle", "district": null, "lat": 50.792985, "lon": 4.330495, "coords_source": "geocoded_address", "indoor_outdoor": "indoor", "access": { "value": "unknown", "src": 0 }, "cost": { "value": "unknown", "amount": null, "src": 0 }, "equipment": { "boards": "unknown", "clocks": "unknown", "tables_count": null, "giant_pieces": "n/a", "src": 0 }, "audience": { "beginners_welcome": null, "kids": null, "adults_only": null, "languages": [], "src": 0 }, "formats": [ "rapid", "rated_tournaments" ], "season": { "value": "unknown", "months": null, "src": 0 }, "federation": { "member": null, "body": null, "src": 0 }, "training": { "offers": [], "ages": null, "languages": [], "price": { "value": "unknown", "amount": null, "src": 0 }, "trial_lesson": null, "group_size": null, "coaches": [], "branches": null, "src": 0 }, "sessions": [], "status": { "value": "active", "evidence": "The Brussels Chess Club site gives the Paul Marcus Memorial FIDE Grand Rapid 2026 as Monday 6 April 2026, from 11:00 to 17:00, nine rounds of 10 minutes plus 5 seconds, held with The Belgian Chess Club at Het Huys in Uccle. The FIDE list shows the 2026 edition on 6 April 2026 and the 2025 edition on 21 April 2025.", "evidence_date": "2026-04-06", "moved_to": null, "src": 3 }, "contacts": { "website": null, "email": null, "phone": null, "social": [] }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.brusselschessclub.be/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "le lundi 6 avril de 11 à 17 heures, 9 rondes" }, { "url": "https://www.brusselschessclub.be/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Adresse: \"Het Huys\", Rue Egide Van Ophem 46 à 1180 Uccle" }, { "url": "https://ratings.fide.com/a_tournaments.php?country=BEL&period=2025-05-01", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Paul Marcus Memorial FIDE Grand Rapid 2025" }, { "url": "https://ratings.fide.com/a_tournaments.php?country=BEL&period=2026-05-01", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Paul Marcus Memorial FIDE Grand Rapid 2026" } ], "geocode": { "query": "Rue Egide Van Ophem 46, 1180 Uccle, Uccle, Belgium", "osm_type": "node", "osm_id": 11780624445, "display_name": "46, Rue Égide Van Ophem - Égide Van Ophemstraat, Uccle - Ukkel, Brussels-Capital, 1180, Belgium", "date": "2026-10-14" }, "edited": "2026-10-14" }, { "slug": "interclubs-bruxellois", "name": "Interclubs Bruxellois", "name_local": null, "kind": "tournament", "sections": [ "play" ], "municipality": "Woluwe-Saint-Lambert", "address": "Salle La Rotonde, Avenue Jean-François Debecker 54, 1200 Woluwe-Saint-Lambert", "district": null, "lat": null, "lon": null, "coords_source": null, "indoor_outdoor": "indoor", "access": { "value": "unknown", "src": 0 }, "cost": { "value": "unknown", "amount": null, "src": 0 }, "equipment": { "boards": "unknown", "clocks": "unknown", "tables_count": null, "giant_pieces": "n/a", "src": 0 }, "audience": { "beginners_welcome": null, "kids": null, "adults_only": null, "languages": [], "src": 0 }, "formats": [ "rapid", "blitz" ], "season": { "value": "unknown", "months": null, "src": 0 }, "federation": { "member": null, "body": null, "src": 0 }, "training": { "offers": [], "ages": null, "languages": [], "price": { "value": "unknown", "amount": null, "src": 0 }, "trial_lesson": null, "group_size": null, "coaches": [], "branches": null, "src": 0 }, "sessions": [], "status": { "value": "active", "evidence": "Team championships of Brussels clubs: a Rapid edition on 19 September 2026 (23 teams of four, six of them from the Ixelles Chess Club, according to that club's site) and a Blitz edition on 19 January 2025, both listed on chess-results.com and in the FIDE list. The venues differ between editions and the event pages do not give them. The chess-results tournament search lists the Rapid edition of 19 September 2026 at the Salle La Rotonde, Avenue Jean-François Debecker 54, 1200 Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, the address given here as the most recent, and the Blitz edition of 19 January 2025 at the Maison communale d'Etterbeek, 1040 Etterbeek. The same listing names as organiser of both a person it describes as from Europchess, whom a March 2025 guide names as the information contact of Europchess.", "evidence_date": "2026-09-19", "moved_to": null, "src": 2 }, "contacts": { "website": null, "email": null, "phone": null, "social": [] }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://s2.chess-results.com/tnr1500149.aspx?lan=1", "kind": "directory", "flag": "secondary", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Interclubs Bruxellois - Rapides - 2026" }, { "url": "https://www.ixelleschessclub.com/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Beau succès pour le Championnat Interclubs Bruxellois Rapides 2026 : 23 équipes" }, { "url": "https://ratings.fide.com/a_tournaments.php?country=BEL&period=2026-10-01", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Interclubs Bruxellois Rapides 2026" }, { "url": "https://s2.chess-results.com/tnr1102355.aspx?lan=1", "kind": "directory", "flag": "secondary", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Interclubs Bruxellois Blitz 2025" }, { "url": "https://s2.chess-results.com/TurnierSuche.aspx?lan=1", "kind": "directory", "flag": "secondary", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Salle La Rotonde, Av. Jean-Francois Debecker 54" }, { "url": "https://s2.chess-results.com/TurnierSuche.aspx?lan=1", "kind": "directory", "flag": "secondary", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Maison communale d'Etterbeek - 1040 Etterbeek" }, { "url": "https://s2.chess-results.com/TurnierSuche.aspx?lan=1", "kind": "directory", "flag": "secondary", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Johannes Bertram (Europchess)" }, { "url": "https://brusselschessclub.be/contenu/Chess_in_Brussels%202024-2025.pdf", "kind": "directory", "flag": "secondary", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Johannes Bertram" } ], "edited": "2026-10-14" }, { "slug": "dworpse-schaakkring", "name": "Dworpse Schaakkring", "name_local": null, "kind": "club", "sections": [ "play" ], "municipality": "Halle", "address": "Kasteelstraat 96, 1500 Halle", "district": null, "lat": 50.719374, "lon": 4.256742, "coords_source": "geocoded_address", "indoor_outdoor": "indoor", "access": { "value": "guests_welcome", "src": 5 }, "cost": { "value": "unknown", "amount": null, "src": 0 }, "equipment": { "boards": "unknown", "clocks": "unknown", "tables_count": null, "giant_pieces": "n/a", "src": 0 }, "audience": { "beginners_welcome": null, "kids": null, "adults_only": null, "languages": [], "src": 0 }, "formats": [ "rapid", "rated_tournaments" ], "season": { "value": "unknown", "months": null, "src": 0 }, "federation": { "member": true, "body": "VSF / FRBE", "src": 0 }, "training": { "offers": [], "ages": null, "languages": [], "price": { "value": "unknown", "amount": null, "src": 0 }, "trial_lesson": null, "group_size": null, "coaches": [], "branches": null, "src": 0 }, "sessions": [ { "organiser": "Dworpse Schaakkring", "weekday": "Fri", "time": "20:00", "note": "Club evening at 't Oud Kasteel, Halle (the register lists 19h00-24h00).", "live_page": "https://www.skdworp.be/", "src": 2 } ], "status": { "value": "active", "evidence": "The club site says the club has played in Halle since 1984, meets on Friday evenings from 20:00 at 't Oud Kasteel and organises the Memorial Debast rapid tournament each September. The FIDE list for September 2026 carries \"11de Memorial Debast\" dated 12 September 2026, in Huizingen (the list does not name the organiser). The register gives the playing place as Oud Kasteel Essenbeek, Kasteelstraat 96, 1500 Halle.", "evidence_date": "2026-09-12", "moved_to": null, "src": 4 }, "contacts": { "website": "https://www.skdworp.be/", "email": null, "phone": null, "social": [] }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.frbe-kbsb-ksb.be/api/v1/clubs/anon/club/228", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "\"name_long\":\"Dworpse Schaakkring\"" }, { "url": "https://www.frbe-kbsb-ksb.be/api/v1/clubs/anon/club/228", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Kasteelstraat 96" }, { "url": "https://www.skdworp.be/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Je kunt ons vinden op vrijdagavond vanaf 20u00" }, { "url": "https://www.skdworp.be/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "organiseren we sinds enkele jaren in september het snelschaaktornooi" }, { "url": "https://ratings.fide.com/a_tournaments.php?country=BEL&period=2026-10-01", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "11de Memorial Debast" }, { "url": "https://www.skdworp.be/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Bij ons is iedereen welkom voor een schaakje en een drankje." } ], "geocode": { "query": "Kasteelstraat 96, 1500 Halle, Halle, Belgium", "osm_type": "way", "osm_id": 748634683, "display_name": "96, Kasteelstraat, Halle, Halle-Vilvoorde, Flemish Brabant, Flanders, 1500, Belgium", "date": "2026-10-14" }, "edited": "2026-10-14" }, { "slug": "schaakkring-de-zwarte-dame", "name": "Schaakkring De Zwarte Dame", "name_local": null, "kind": "club", "sections": [ "play", "learn" ], "municipality": "Halle", "address": "Kanaalbrugstraat 5D, 1500 Halle", "district": null, "lat": 50.740372, "lon": 4.24304, "coords_source": "geocoded_address", "indoor_outdoor": "indoor", "access": { "value": "guests_welcome", "src": 4 }, "cost": { "value": "paid", "amount": "35 EUR a year (25 EUR for young members), plus 3 EUR for each Saturday afternoon attended", "src": 8 }, "equipment": { "boards": "unknown", "clocks": "unknown", "tables_count": null, "giant_pieces": "n/a", "src": 0 }, "audience": { "beginners_welcome": true, "kids": null, "adults_only": null, "languages": [], "src": 4 }, "formats": [ "casual", "rated_tournaments", "lessons" ], "season": { "value": "unknown", "months": null, "src": 0 }, "federation": { "member": true, "body": "VSF / FRBE", "src": 0 }, "training": { "offers": [ "group_classes" ], "ages": null, "languages": [], "price": { "value": "unknown", "amount": null, "src": 0 }, "trial_lesson": null, "group_size": null, "coaches": [], "branches": null, "src": 2 }, "sessions": [ { "organiser": "Schaakkring De Zwarte Dame", "weekday": "Sat", "time": "14:00-18:00", "note": "Chess afternoons in the school year: one hour of lessons, then play, at the club room on the Sociale Campus.", "live_page": "http://www.schaakkringdezwartedame.be/", "src": 2 } ], "status": { "value": "active", "evidence": "The club site describes a chess circle in Halle for visually impaired players and sympathisers, playing every Saturday of the school year from 14:00 to 18:00. The FIDE list for May 2026 and chess-results.com carry \"Zwarte Dame 29ste Open\", dated 2 May 2026 in Halle.", "evidence_date": "2026-05-02", "moved_to": null, "src": 5 }, "contacts": { "website": "http://www.schaakkringdezwartedame.be/", "email": null, "phone": null, "social": [] }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.frbe-kbsb-ksb.be/api/v1/clubs/anon/club/233", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "\"name_long\":\"Schaakkring De Zwarte Dame\"" }, { "url": "https://www.frbe-kbsb-ksb.be/api/v1/clubs/anon/club/233", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Kanaalbrugstraat 5D" }, { "url": "https://www.frbe-kbsb-ksb.be/api/v1/clubs/anon/club/233", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "\"Saturday\":\"14u-18u\"" }, { "url": "http://www.schaakkringdezwartedame.be/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Wij zijn een schaakkring in Halle voor visueel gehandicapten en sympathisanten." }, { "url": "http://www.schaakkringdezwartedame.be/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Jong of oud, je bent welkom bij De Zwarte Dame!" }, { "url": "https://ratings.fide.com/a_tournaments.php?country=BEL&period=2026-06-01", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Zwarte Dame 29ste Open" }, { "url": "https://s2.chess-results.com/tnr1407073.aspx?lan=1", "kind": "directory", "flag": "secondary", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Zwarte Dame 29ste Open" }, { "url": "http://www.schaakkringdezwartedame.be/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Je kan lid worden van onze club voor €35 per jaar." }, { "url": "http://www.schaakkringdezwartedame.be/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Daarnaast vragen we een kleine bijdrage van €3 per keer dat je aanwezig bent" } ], "geocode": { "query": "Kanaalbrugstraat 5D, 1500 Halle, Halle, Belgium", "osm_type": "node", "osm_id": 6627047426, "display_name": "Huis van het Kind;Spel- en ontmoetingsruimte Speelwolk, 5D, Kanaalbrugstraat, Nederhem, Stroppen, Halle, Halle-Vilvoorde, Flemish Brabant, Flanders, 1500, Belgium", "date": "2026-10-14" }, "edited": "2026-10-14" }, { "slug": "schaakclub-jerevan-zaventem", "name": "Schaakclub Jerevan-Zaventem", "name_local": null, "kind": "club", "sections": [ "play" ], "municipality": "Zaventem", "address": "Imperiastraat 14, 1930 Zaventem", "district": null, "lat": 50.878852, "lon": 4.454167, "coords_source": "geocoded_address", "indoor_outdoor": "indoor", "access": { "value": "unknown", "src": 0 }, "cost": { "value": "unknown", "amount": null, "src": 0 }, "equipment": { "boards": "unknown", "clocks": "unknown", "tables_count": null, "giant_pieces": "n/a", "src": 0 }, "audience": { "beginners_welcome": null, "kids": null, "adults_only": null, "languages": [], "src": 0 }, "formats": [], "season": { "value": "unknown", "months": null, "src": 0 }, "federation": { "member": true, "body": "VSF / FRBE", "src": 0 }, "training": { "offers": [], "ages": null, "languages": [], "price": { "value": "unknown", "amount": null, "src": 0 }, "trial_lesson": null, "group_size": null, "coaches": [], "branches": null, "src": 0 }, "sessions": [ { "organiser": "Schaakclub Jerevan-Zaventem", "weekday": "Sat", "time": "13:00", "note": "Hour as printed in the federation register.", "live_page": null, "src": 1 } ], "status": { "value": "unconfirmed", "evidence": "The federation register lists the club with a Saturday meeting at 13h at Imperiastraat 14, 1930 Zaventem. No club page and no dated event of the club were found.", "evidence_date": null, "moved_to": null, "src": 1 }, "contacts": { "website": null, "email": null, "phone": null, "social": [] }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.frbe-kbsb-ksb.be/api/v1/clubs/anon/club/237", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "\"name_long\":\"Schaakclub Jerevan-Zaventem\"" }, { "url": "https://www.frbe-kbsb-ksb.be/api/v1/clubs/anon/club/237", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "\"Saturday\":\"13h\"" }, { "url": "https://www.frbe-kbsb-ksb.be/api/v1/clubs/anon/club/237", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Imperiastraat 14" } ], "geocode": { "query": "Imperiastraat 14, 1930 Zaventem, Zaventem, Belgium", "osm_type": "way", "osm_id": 29417956, "display_name": "14, Imperiastraat, Keiberg, Zaventem, Halle-Vilvoorde, Flemish Brabant, Flanders, 1930, Belgium", "date": "2026-10-14" }, "edited": "2026-10-14" }, { "slug": "schaakclub-panorama", "name": "Schaakclub Panorama", "name_local": null, "kind": "club", "sections": [ "play" ], "municipality": "Overijse", "address": "Hengstenberg 77, 3090 Overijse", "district": null, "lat": 50.777441, "lon": 4.501211, "coords_source": "geocoded_address", "indoor_outdoor": "indoor", "access": { "value": "unknown", "src": 0 }, "cost": { "value": "unknown", "amount": null, "src": 0 }, "equipment": { "boards": "unknown", "clocks": "unknown", "tables_count": null, "giant_pieces": "n/a", "src": 0 }, "audience": { "beginners_welcome": null, "kids": null, "adults_only": null, "languages": [], "src": 0 }, "formats": [], "season": { "value": "unknown", "months": null, "src": 0 }, "federation": { "member": true, "body": "VSF / FRBE", "src": 0 }, "training": { "offers": [], "ages": null, "languages": [], "price": { "value": "unknown", "amount": null, "src": 0 }, "trial_lesson": null, "group_size": null, "coaches": [], "branches": null, "src": 0 }, "sessions": [ { "organiser": "Schaakclub Panorama", "weekday": "Sat", "time": "09:00-11:00", "note": "Hours as printed in the federation register; playing place the Panorama Hotel.", "live_page": null, "src": 1 } ], "status": { "value": "unconfirmed", "evidence": "The federation register lists the club with a Saturday meeting from 9u to 11u at the Panorama Hotel, Hengstenberg 77, 3090 Overijse; the register also lists a separate registered address, which is not used here. No club page and no dated event of the club were found.", "evidence_date": null, "moved_to": null, "src": 1 }, "contacts": { "website": null, "email": null, "phone": null, "social": [] }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.frbe-kbsb-ksb.be/api/v1/clubs/anon/club/236", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "\"name_long\":\"Schaakclub Panorama\"" }, { "url": "https://www.frbe-kbsb-ksb.be/api/v1/clubs/anon/club/236", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "\"Saturday\":\"9u-11u\"" }, { "url": "https://www.frbe-kbsb-ksb.be/api/v1/clubs/anon/club/236", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Panorama Hotel" } ], "geocode": { "query": "Hengstenberg 77, 3090 Overijse, Overijse, Belgium", "osm_type": "way", "osm_id": 1019767633, "display_name": "77, Hengstenberg, Jezus-Eik, Overijse, Halle-Vilvoorde, Flemish Brabant, Flanders, 3090, Belgium", "date": "2026-10-14" }, "edited": "2026-10-14" }, { "slug": "cercle-d-echecs-de-wavre", "name": "Cercle d'échecs de Wavre", "name_local": null, "kind": "club", "sections": [ "play" ], "municipality": "Wavre", "address": "Rue Charles Jaumotte 156, 1300 Limal", "district": null, "lat": 50.700532, "lon": 4.581241, "coords_source": "geocoded_address", "indoor_outdoor": "indoor", "access": { "value": "unknown", "src": 0 }, "cost": { "value": "unknown", "amount": null, "src": 0 }, "equipment": { "boards": "unknown", "clocks": "unknown", "tables_count": null, "giant_pieces": "n/a", "src": 0 }, "audience": { "beginners_welcome": null, "kids": null, "adults_only": null, "languages": [], "src": 0 }, "formats": [ "rated_tournaments" ], "season": { "value": "unknown", "months": null, "src": 0 }, "federation": { "member": true, "body": "FRBE / FEFB", "src": 0 }, "training": { "offers": [], "ages": null, "languages": [], "price": { "value": "unknown", "amount": null, "src": 0 }, "trial_lesson": null, "group_size": null, "coaches": [], "branches": null, "src": 0 }, "sessions": [ { "organiser": "Cercle d'échecs de Wavre", "weekday": "Thu", "time": "20:00-23:30", "note": "Hours as printed in the federation register; playing place the Centre sportif de Limal.", "live_page": null, "src": 1 } ], "status": { "value": "active", "evidence": "The FIDE list for September 2026 carries \"Championnat de Wavre 2026 - 2nd semestre 2026 Ronde 1\" dated 24 September 2026 in Wavre (the list does not name the organiser, so it is matched to the club by the town name only); the federation register lists the club with Thursday hours from 20h00 to 23h30 at the Centre sportif de Limal. The register gives the playing place as the Centre sportif de Limal and also lists a separate seat address, which is not used here. The club website named in the register could not be reached.", "evidence_date": "2026-09-24", "moved_to": null, "src": 3 }, "contacts": { "website": "http://www.wavre-echecs.be/", "email": null, "phone": null, "social": [] }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.frbe-kbsb-ksb.be/api/v1/clubs/anon/club/952", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "\"name_long\":\"Cercle d'échecs de Wavre\"" }, { "url": "https://www.frbe-kbsb-ksb.be/api/v1/clubs/anon/club/952", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "\"Thursday\":\"20h00-23h30\"" }, { "url": "https://www.frbe-kbsb-ksb.be/api/v1/clubs/anon/club/952", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Rue Charles Jaumotte 156" }, { "url": "https://ratings.fide.com/a_tournaments.php?country=BEL&period=2026-10-01", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Championnat de Wavre 2026 - 2nd semestre 2026 Ronde 1" } ], "geocode": { "query": "Rue Charles Jaumotte 156, 1300 Limal, Wavre, Belgium", "osm_type": "way", "osm_id": 746017492, "display_name": "156, Rue Charles Jaumotte, Limal, Wavre, Nivelles, Walloon Brabant, Wallonia, 1301, Belgium", "date": "2026-10-14" }, "edited": "2026-10-14" }, { "slug": "cercle-royal-d-echecs-de-lasne-waterloo", "name": "Cercle Royal d'Échecs de Lasne-Waterloo", "name_local": null, "kind": "club", "sections": [ "play" ], "municipality": "Lasne", "address": "Route d'Ohain 9, 1380 Lasne", "district": null, "lat": null, "lon": null, "coords_source": null, "indoor_outdoor": "indoor", "access": { "value": "unknown", "src": 0 }, "cost": { "value": "unknown", "amount": null, "src": 0 }, "equipment": { "boards": "unknown", "clocks": "unknown", "tables_count": null, "giant_pieces": "n/a", "src": 0 }, "audience": { "beginners_welcome": null, "kids": null, "adults_only": null, "languages": [], "src": 0 }, "formats": [], "season": { "value": "unknown", "months": null, "src": 0 }, "federation": { "member": true, "body": "FRBE / FEFB", "src": 0 }, "training": { "offers": [], "ages": null, "languages": [], "price": { "value": "unknown", "amount": null, "src": 0 }, "trial_lesson": null, "group_size": null, "coaches": [], "branches": null, "src": 0 }, "sessions": [ { "organiser": "Cercle Royal d'Échecs de Lasne-Waterloo", "weekday": "Mon", "time": "20:00", "note": "Hour as printed in the federation register; playing place the Complexe sportif de Lasne.", "live_page": null, "src": 1 } ], "status": { "value": "unconfirmed", "evidence": "The federation register lists the club with a Monday meeting at 20h00 at the Complexe sportif de Lasne, route d'Ohain 9. The club website named in the register (echecslasne.net) could not be reached, and no dated event of the club was found.", "evidence_date": null, "moved_to": null, "src": 1 }, "contacts": { "website": "http://www.echecslasne.net", "email": null, "phone": null, "social": [] }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.frbe-kbsb-ksb.be/api/v1/clubs/anon/club/951", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "\"name_long\":\"CERCLE ROYAL D'ECHECS DE LASNE-WATERLOO\"" }, { "url": "https://www.frbe-kbsb-ksb.be/api/v1/clubs/anon/club/951", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "\"Monday\":\"20h00\"" }, { "url": "https://www.frbe-kbsb-ksb.be/api/v1/clubs/anon/club/951", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Complexe sportif de Lasne" } ] }, { "slug": "braine-echecs", "name": "Braine Échecs", "name_local": null, "kind": "club", "sections": [ "play", "learn" ], "municipality": "Braine-l'Alleud", "address": "Avenue de Menden 21, 1420 Braine-l'Alleud", "district": null, "lat": null, "lon": null, "coords_source": null, "indoor_outdoor": "indoor", "access": { "value": "unknown", "src": 0 }, "cost": { "value": "unknown", "amount": null, "src": 0 }, "equipment": { "boards": "unknown", "clocks": "unknown", "tables_count": null, "giant_pieces": "n/a", "src": 0 }, "audience": { "beginners_welcome": null, "kids": null, "adults_only": null, "languages": [], "src": 0 }, "formats": [ "lessons" ], "season": { "value": "unknown", "months": null, "src": 0 }, "federation": { "member": true, "body": "FRBE / FEFB", "src": 0 }, "training": { "offers": [ "group_classes" ], "ages": null, "languages": [], "price": { "value": "unknown", "amount": null, "src": 0 }, "trial_lesson": true, "group_size": null, "coaches": [], "branches": null, "src": 2 }, "sessions": [ { "organiser": "Braine Échecs", "weekday": "Fri", "time": "17:15-22:30", "note": "Hours as printed in the federation register; courses and play at the Athénée Royal.", "live_page": "http://www.braineechecs.be/", "src": 1 } ], "status": { "value": "active", "evidence": "The club site posted a summer 2026 calendar of public chess animations in Braine-l'Alleud on 2 July 2026, opened registration for pupils from outside the club, and announced that courses resume on Friday 11 September 2026 at the Athénée Royal, Avenue de Menden 21.", "evidence_date": "2026-07-02", "moved_to": null, "src": 3 }, "contacts": { "website": "http://www.braineechecs.be/", "email": null, "phone": null, "social": [] }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.frbe-kbsb-ksb.be/api/v1/clubs/anon/club/961", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "\"name_long\":\"Braine Échecs asbl\"" }, { "url": "https://www.frbe-kbsb-ksb.be/api/v1/clubs/anon/club/961", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "\"Friday\":\"17h15-22h30\"" }, { "url": "http://www.braineechecs.be/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Les cours reprendront le vendredi 11 septembre 2026" }, { "url": "http://www.braineechecs.be/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Calendrier estival 2026" }, { "url": "http://www.braineechecs.be/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Un club d'échecs pour tous à Braine-l'Alleud" }, { "url": "http://www.braineechecs.be/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Séances d’essai gratuites" } ] }, { "slug": "toots-jazz-club", "name": "Toots Jazz Club", "name_local": null, "kind": "cafe_bar", "sections": [ "play" ], "municipality": "Bruxelles", "address": "Rue des Chapeliers 6, 1000 Bruxelles", "district": null, "lat": 50.846122, "lon": 4.352806, "coords_source": "geocoded_address", "indoor_outdoor": "indoor", "access": { "value": "open_to_all", "src": 3 }, "cost": { "value": "paid", "amount": "2 EUR towards costs (games and clocks) for the weekly friendly tournaments", "src": 4 }, "equipment": { "boards": "unknown", "clocks": "unknown", "tables_count": null, "giant_pieces": "n/a", "src": 4 }, "audience": { "beginners_welcome": null, "kids": null, "adults_only": null, "languages": [], "src": 3 }, "formats": [ "blitz" ], "season": { "value": "unknown", "months": null, "src": 1 }, "federation": { "member": null, "body": null, "src": 1 }, "training": { "offers": [], "ages": null, "languages": [], "price": { "value": "unknown", "amount": null, "src": 0 }, "trial_lesson": null, "group_size": null, "coaches": [], "branches": null, "src": 1 }, "sessions": [ { "organiser": "Ixelles Chess Club", "weekday": "Tue", "time": "19:00", "note": "Friendly blitz tournament (not FIDE-rated); the club asks players to register 30 minutes before the announced time.", "live_page": "https://www.ixelleschessclub.com/", "src": 1 } ], "status": { "value": "active", "evidence": "The Ixelles Chess Club holds its weekly friendly blitz tournament on Tuesdays at this jazz club, according to the club's own site, which also posts the results of the blitz of 6 October 2026. The club's calendar lists \"Blitz au Toots Jazz Club\" on Tuesday evenings. The address comes from a Belgian jazz venue directory.", "evidence_date": "2026-10-06", "moved_to": null, "src": 2 }, "contacts": { "website": null, "email": null, "phone": null, "social": [] }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://jazzinbelgium.be/en/venues/4231/toots-jazz-club", "kind": "directory", "flag": "secondary", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Rue des Chapeliers 6, Bruxelles, Belgique" }, { "url": "https://www.ixelleschessclub.com/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Blitz au Toots Jazz Club" }, { "url": "https://www.ixelleschessclub.com/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Résultats Blitz 06/10/2026" }, { "url": "https://www.ixelleschessclub.com/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "sont ouverts à toutes et tous, sans obligation d'être affilié à un club" }, { "url": "https://www.ixelleschessclub.com/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Prévoyez 2€ pour la participation aux frais (jeux et pendules)" } ], "geocode": { "query": "Rue des Chapeliers 6, 1000 Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium", "osm_type": "node", "osm_id": 6262113744, "display_name": "6, Rue des Chapeliers - Hoedenmakersstraat, Quartier du Centre - Centrumwijk, Pentagon, Brussels, Brussels-Capital, 1000, Belgium", "date": "2026-10-14" }, "edited": "2026-10-14" }, { "slug": "muntpunt-schaakclub", "name": "Muntpunt Schaakclub", "name_local": null, "kind": "library_community", "sections": [ "play", "community" ], "municipality": "Bruxelles", "address": "Munt 6, 1000 Brussel", "district": null, "lat": 50.849437, "lon": 4.353465, "coords_source": "geocoded_address", "indoor_outdoor": "indoor", "access": { "value": "open_to_all", "src": 2 }, "cost": { "value": "free", "amount": null, "src": 1 }, "equipment": { "boards": "provided", "clocks": "provided", "tables_count": null, "giant_pieces": "n/a", "src": 6 }, "audience": { "beginners_welcome": true, "kids": true, "adults_only": false, "languages": [], "src": 5 }, "formats": [ "casual" ], "season": { "value": "unknown", "months": null, "src": 0 }, "federation": { "member": null, "body": null, "src": 0 }, "training": { "offers": [], "ages": null, "languages": [], "price": { "value": "unknown", "amount": null, "src": 0 }, "trial_lesson": null, "group_size": null, "coaches": [], "branches": null, "src": 0 }, "sessions": [ { "organiser": "Muntpunt", "weekday": "Wed", "time": "16:00-19:00", "note": "Weekly chess meeting, from loose games to analysis and tournaments (the page says Agora; the place line says Literair Salon S1).", "live_page": "https://muntpunt.be/activiteit/muntpunt-schaakclub", "src": 0 } ], "status": { "value": "active", "evidence": "The Muntpunt library page for its chess club lists a weekly meeting every Wednesday from 16:00 to 19:00, with dated sessions announced from 14 October to 23 December 2026, and the library's home page lists the same recurring activity. Entry is free without registration, for ages 3 to 99. The page names the Literair Salon S1 as the place and the Agora in its description.", "evidence_date": null, "moved_to": null, "src": 0 }, "contacts": { "website": "https://muntpunt.be/activiteit/muntpunt-schaakclub", "email": null, "phone": null, "social": [] }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://muntpunt.be/activiteit/muntpunt-schaakclub", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "elke woensdag, 16:00 - 19:00" }, { "url": "https://muntpunt.be/activiteit/muntpunt-schaakclub", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Gratis, zonder inschrijving" }, { "url": "https://muntpunt.be/activiteit/muntpunt-schaakclub", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Iedereen is welkom aan onze borden." }, { "url": "https://muntpunt.be/activiteit/muntpunt-schaakclub", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Munt 6" }, { "url": "https://muntpunt.be/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Muntpunt Schaakclub" }, { "url": "https://muntpunt.be/activiteit/muntpunt-schaakclub", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "van beginners tot meesters, van 3 tot 99 jaar" }, { "url": "https://brusselschessclub.be/contenu/Chess_in_Brussels%202024-2025.pdf", "kind": "directory", "flag": "secondary", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "avec beaux échiquiers et pendules officielles." } ], "geocode": { "query": "Munt 6, 1000 Brussel, Bruxelles, Belgium", "osm_type": "node", "osm_id": 1324666421, "display_name": "6, Place de la Monnaie - Munt, Quartier du Centre - Centrumwijk, Pentagon, Brussels, Brussels-Capital, 1000, Belgium", "date": "2026-10-14" }, "edited": "2026-10-14" }, { "slug": "maison-des-echecs", "name": "Maison des Échecs", "name_local": null, "kind": "shop", "sections": [ "shop" ], "municipality": "Bruxelles", "address": "Rue de Belle Vue 60, 1000 Bruxelles", "district": null, "lat": 50.819743, "lon": 4.37146, "coords_source": "geocoded_address", "indoor_outdoor": "indoor", "access": { "value": "unknown", "src": 0 }, "cost": { "value": "purchase_expected", "amount": null, "src": 3 }, "equipment": { "boards": "unknown", "clocks": "unknown", "tables_count": null, "giant_pieces": "n/a", "src": 0 }, "audience": { "beginners_welcome": null, "kids": null, "adults_only": null, "languages": [], "src": 0 }, "formats": [], "season": { "value": "unknown", "months": null, "src": 0 }, "federation": { "member": null, "body": null, "src": 0 }, "training": { "offers": [], "ages": null, "languages": [], "price": { "value": "unknown", "amount": null, "src": 0 }, "trial_lesson": null, "group_size": null, "coaches": [], "branches": null, "src": 0 }, "sessions": [], "status": { "value": "active", "evidence": "The shop's site presents a chess and strategy games shop in Brussels since 1981, prints opening hours from Monday to Saturday, 10:30 to 18:00, with Sunday closed, a phone number and the address Rue de Belle Vue 60, 1000 Bruxelles, and carries a 2025 copyright line. A March 2025 guide to chess in Brussels also lists it, with boards, pieces, clocks, notation books, books and software, open every day from 10:30 to 18:00 except Sunday. The site prints postcode 1000 for this address.", "evidence_date": null, "moved_to": null, "src": 4 }, "contacts": { "website": "https://maisondesechecs.be/", "email": null, "phone": "+32 (0) 2 649 39 97", "social": [] }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://maisondesechecs.be/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Boutique à Bruxelles depuis 1981" }, { "url": "https://maisondesechecs.be/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Rue de Belle Vue, 60" }, { "url": "https://maisondesechecs.be/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "1000 Bruxelles, Belgium" }, { "url": "https://maisondesechecs.be/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Paiement sécurisé" }, { "url": "https://maisondesechecs.be/", "kind": "own_site", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "VISITEZ NOTRE Boutique à Bruxelles !" }, { "url": "https://brusselschessclub.be/contenu/Chess_in_Brussels%202024-2025.pdf", "kind": "directory", "flag": "secondary", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Boutique ouverte tous les jours de 10h30 à 18h (sauf le dimanche)" } ], "geocode": { "query": "Rue de Belle Vue 60, 1000 Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium", "osm_type": "node", "osm_id": 13708736054, "display_name": "60, Rue de Belle Vue - Bellevuestraat, La Cambre - Ter Kameren, south extension of Brussels, Brussels, Brussels-Capital, 1000, Belgium", "date": "2026-10-14" }, "edited": "2026-10-14" }, { "slug": "galerie-de-la-bascule", "name": "Galerie de la Bascule", "name_local": null, "kind": "other", "sections": [ "play" ], "municipality": "Uccle", "address": "Chaussée de Waterloo 715, 1180 Uccle", "district": null, "lat": 50.815526, "lon": 4.36677, "coords_source": "geocoded_address", "indoor_outdoor": "indoor", "access": { "value": "unknown", "src": 0 }, "cost": { "value": "unknown", "amount": null, "src": 0 }, "equipment": { "boards": "unknown", "clocks": "unknown", "tables_count": null, "giant_pieces": "n/a", "src": 0 }, "audience": { "beginners_welcome": null, "kids": null, "adults_only": null, "languages": [], "src": 0 }, "formats": [ "casual" ], "season": { "value": "unknown", "months": null, "src": 0 }, "federation": { "member": null, "body": null, "src": 0 }, "training": { "offers": [], "ages": null, "languages": [], "price": { "value": "unknown", "amount": null, "src": 0 }, "trial_lesson": null, "group_size": null, "coaches": [], "branches": null, "src": 0 }, "sessions": [ { "organiser": "Galerie de la Bascule", "weekday": "Sat", "time": "14:00-18:00", "note": "Free games (parties libres), as listed in the March 2025 guide; not confirmed on the venue's own site.", "live_page": null, "src": 0 } ], "status": { "value": "unconfirmed", "evidence": "The only source is a guide to playing chess in Brussels published by the Brussels Chess Club and updated in March 2025. It says free games are possible every Saturday from 14:00 to 18:00 in the Bascule gallery at Chaussée de Waterloo 715, Uccle. The Bascule village website, read in October 2026, does not mention chess, and no current trace was found.", "evidence_date": "2025-03", "moved_to": null, "src": 0 }, "contacts": { "website": "https://www.basculevillage.be/", "email": null, "phone": null, "social": [] }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://brusselschessclub.be/contenu/Chess_in_Brussels%202024-2025.pdf", "kind": "directory", "flag": "secondary", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "il y a moyen de jouer des parties libres, de 14 à 18 heures" }, { "url": "https://brusselschessclub.be/contenu/Chess_in_Brussels%202024-2025.pdf", "kind": "directory", "flag": "secondary", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "chaussée de Waterloo, 715, 1180 Uccle" } ], "geocode": { "query": "Chaussée de Waterloo 715, 1180 Uccle, Uccle, Belgium", "osm_type": "node", "osm_id": 2323689618, "display_name": "715, Chaussée de Waterloo - Waterloosesteenweg, Uccle - Ukkel, Brussels-Capital, 1180, Belgium", "date": "2026-10-14" }, "edited": "2026-10-14" }, { "slug": "cafe-saint-jacques", "name": "Café St-Jacques", "name_local": null, "kind": "cafe_bar", "sections": [ "play" ], "municipality": "Bruxelles", "address": "Rue du Marché au Charbon 73, 1000 Bruxelles", "district": null, "lat": 50.845924, "lon": 4.348309, "coords_source": "geocoded_address", "indoor_outdoor": "indoor", "access": { "value": "unknown", "src": 0 }, "cost": { "value": "unknown", "amount": null, "src": 0 }, "equipment": { "boards": "unknown", "clocks": "unknown", "tables_count": null, "giant_pieces": "n/a", "src": 0 }, "audience": { "beginners_welcome": null, "kids": null, "adults_only": null, "languages": [], "src": 0 }, "formats": [], "season": { "value": "unknown", "months": null, "src": 0 }, "federation": { "member": null, "body": null, "src": 0 }, "training": { "offers": [], "ages": null, "languages": [], "price": { "value": "unknown", "amount": null, "src": 0 }, "trial_lesson": null, "group_size": null, "coaches": [], "branches": null, "src": 0 }, "sessions": [], "status": { "value": "unconfirmed", "evidence": "The only source is a guide to playing chess in Brussels published by the Brussels Chess Club and updated in March 2025. It describes this café as frequented by chess players, with boards available on request from the owner, who sometimes organises small tournaments. It gives no schedule, and no later source was found.", "evidence_date": "2025-03", "moved_to": null, "src": 0 }, "contacts": { "website": null, "email": null, "phone": null, "social": [] }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://brusselschessclub.be/contenu/Chess_in_Brussels%202024-2025.pdf", "kind": "directory", "flag": "secondary", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Un café fréquenté par des joueurs d'échecs" }, { "url": "https://brusselschessclub.be/contenu/Chess_in_Brussels%202024-2025.pdf", "kind": "directory", "flag": "secondary", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Rue du Marché au Charbon, 73, 1000 Bruxelles" }, { "url": "https://brusselschessclub.be/contenu/Chess_in_Brussels%202024-2025.pdf", "kind": "directory", "flag": "secondary", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "y organise de temps en temps des petits tournois." } ], "geocode": { "query": "Rue du Marché au Charbon 73, 1000 Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium", "osm_type": "node", "osm_id": 2631878816, "display_name": "73, Rue du Marché au Charbon - Kolenmarkt, Quartier du Centre - Centrumwijk, Pentagon, Brussels, Brussels-Capital, 1000, Belgium", "date": "2026-10-14" }, "edited": "2026-10-14" }, { "slug": "le-paws-ixelles", "name": "Le PAWS", "name_local": null, "kind": "academy", "sections": [ "learn" ], "municipality": "Ixelles", "address": "Place de la Petite Suisse 15, 1050 Ixelles", "district": null, "lat": 50.817486, "lon": 4.38516, "coords_source": "geocoded_address", "indoor_outdoor": "indoor", "access": { "value": "unknown", "src": 0 }, "cost": { "value": "unknown", "amount": null, "src": 0 }, "equipment": { "boards": "unknown", "clocks": "unknown", "tables_count": null, "giant_pieces": "n/a", "src": 0 }, "audience": { "beginners_welcome": null, "kids": null, "adults_only": null, "languages": [], "src": 0 }, "formats": [ "lessons" ], "season": { "value": "unknown", "months": null, "src": 0 }, "federation": { "member": null, "body": null, "src": 0 }, "training": { "offers": [ "group_classes" ], "ages": null, "languages": [], "price": { "value": "unknown", "amount": null, "src": 0 }, "trial_lesson": null, "group_size": null, "coaches": [], "branches": null, "src": 0 }, "sessions": [ { "organiser": "Le PAWS", "weekday": "Fri", "time": "16:40-17:25", "note": "Beginners' lessons (a second group for intermediate players, 17:30-18:30), as listed in the March 2025 guide.", "live_page": null, "src": 0 } ], "status": { "value": "unconfirmed", "evidence": "The only source is a guide to playing chess in Brussels published by the Brussels Chess Club and updated in March 2025. It lists chess lessons on Fridays at the cultural centre Le PAWS in Ixelles: beginners from 16:40 to 17:25 and intermediate players from 17:30 to 18:30. The programme of the association Les Arts Vifs, which runs activities at Le PAWS, read in October 2026, does not mention chess, so the lessons are not confirmed.", "evidence_date": "2025-03", "moved_to": null, "src": 0 }, "contacts": { "website": null, "email": null, "phone": null, "social": [] }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://brusselschessclub.be/contenu/Chess_in_Brussels%202024-2025.pdf", "kind": "directory", "flag": "secondary", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Débutants : 16 heures 40 à 17 heures 25" }, { "url": "https://brusselschessclub.be/contenu/Chess_in_Brussels%202024-2025.pdf", "kind": "directory", "flag": "secondary", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "15 Place de la Petite Suisse à 1050 Ixelles" } ], "geocode": { "query": "Place de la Petite Suisse 15, 1050 Ixelles, Ixelles, Belgium", "osm_type": "node", "osm_id": 2471554613, "display_name": "15, Place de la Petite Suisse - Klein-Zwitserlandplein, Petite Suisse - Klein-Zwitserland, Ixelles - Elsene, Brussels-Capital, 1050, Belgium", "date": "2026-10-14" }, "edited": "2026-10-14" }, { "slug": "centre-culturel-imagine-wezembeek-oppem", "name": "Centre culturel Imagine", "name_local": null, "kind": "academy", "sections": [ "learn" ], "municipality": "Wezembeek-Oppem", "address": "Chaussée de Malines 77, 1970 Wezembeek-Oppem", "district": null, "lat": null, "lon": null, "coords_source": null, "indoor_outdoor": "indoor", "access": { "value": "unknown", "src": 0 }, "cost": { "value": "unknown", "amount": null, "src": 0 }, "equipment": { "boards": "unknown", "clocks": "unknown", "tables_count": null, "giant_pieces": "n/a", "src": 0 }, "audience": { "beginners_welcome": null, "kids": true, "adults_only": null, "languages": [], "src": 0 }, "formats": [ "lessons" ], "season": { "value": "unknown", "months": null, "src": 0 }, "federation": { "member": null, "body": null, "src": 0 }, "training": { "offers": [ "kids_classes" ], "ages": null, "languages": [], "price": { "value": "unknown", "amount": null, "src": 0 }, "trial_lesson": null, "group_size": null, "coaches": [], "branches": null, "src": 0 }, "sessions": [ { "organiser": "Centre culturel Imagine", "weekday": "Sat", "time": "15:00-16:00", "note": "Chess course for young people, as listed in the March 2025 guide.", "live_page": null, "src": 0 } ], "status": { "value": "unconfirmed", "evidence": "The only source is a guide to playing chess in Brussels published by the Brussels Chess Club and updated in March 2025. It lists a chess course for young people on Saturdays from 15:00 to 16:00 at the cultural centre Imagine in Wezembeek-Oppem. No page of the centre itself was found, and no later source was found.", "evidence_date": "2025-03", "moved_to": null, "src": 0 }, "contacts": { "website": null, "email": null, "phone": null, "social": [] }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://brusselschessclub.be/contenu/Chess_in_Brussels%202024-2025.pdf", "kind": "directory", "flag": "secondary", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "15 à 16 heures, Centre culturel « IMAGINE », Chaussée de Malines, 77," } ], "edited": "2026-10-14" }, { "slug": "memorial-albert-dethiou", "name": "Mémorial Albert Dethiou", "name_local": null, "kind": "tournament", "sections": [ "play" ], "municipality": "Bruxelles", "address": null, "district": null, "lat": null, "lon": null, "coords_source": null, "indoor_outdoor": "indoor", "access": { "value": "unknown", "src": 0 }, "cost": { "value": "unknown", "amount": null, "src": 0 }, "equipment": { "boards": "unknown", "clocks": "unknown", "tables_count": null, "giant_pieces": "n/a", "src": 0 }, "audience": { "beginners_welcome": null, "kids": null, "adults_only": null, "languages": [], "src": 0 }, "formats": [ "classical", "rated_tournaments" ], "season": { "value": "unknown", "months": null, "src": 0 }, "federation": { "member": true, "body": "FIDE-rated (Belgian list)", "src": 3 }, "training": { "offers": [], "ages": null, "languages": [], "price": { "value": "unknown", "amount": null, "src": 0 }, "trial_lesson": null, "group_size": null, "coaches": [], "branches": null, "src": 0 }, "sessions": [], "status": { "value": "active", "evidence": "The FIDE list of rated tournaments carries the 31st edition in Brussels with 11 rounds from 20 September to 6 December 2025, the 30th edition in December 2024, and the 32nd edition from 19 September 2026; the 2025 edition is rated as standard time at 90 minutes plus 30 seconds. The list gives no venue. The FIDE record of the 2025 edition names as chief organiser the person whom the federation register lists as tournament director of the Cercle Royal des Échecs de Bruxelles; neither page says that the club runs the tournament. The Deux Fous d'Etterbeek club site mentions a player's result at the tournament.", "evidence_date": "2026-09-19", "moved_to": null, "src": 2 }, "contacts": { "website": null, "email": null, "phone": null, "social": [] }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://ratings.fide.com/a_tournaments.php?country=BEL&period=2025-10-01", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "31eme Memorial Albert Dethiou 2025 Ronde 1" }, { "url": "https://ratings.fide.com/a_tournaments.php?country=BEL&period=2026-01-01", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "31eme Memorial Albert Dethiou 2025 Ronde 11" }, { "url": "https://ratings.fide.com/a_tournaments.php?country=BEL&period=2026-10-01", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "32eme Memorial Albert Dethiou Rondes 1-2" }, { "url": "https://ratings.fide.com/tournament_information.phtml?event=440834", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "31eme Memorial Albert Dethiou 2025 Ronde 1" }, { "url": "https://ratings.fide.com/tournament_information.phtml?event=440834", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Cornil, Etienne (BEL)" }, { "url": "https://www.frbe-kbsb-ksb.be/api/v1/clubs/anon/club/201", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "\"first_name\":\"Etienne\",\"last_name\":\"Cornil\"" } ] }, { "slug": "memorial-rene-vannerom", "name": "Mémorial René Vannerom", "name_local": null, "kind": "tournament", "sections": [ "play" ], "municipality": "Bruxelles", "address": null, "district": null, "lat": null, "lon": null, "coords_source": null, "indoor_outdoor": "indoor", "access": { "value": "unknown", "src": 0 }, "cost": { "value": "unknown", "amount": null, "src": 0 }, "equipment": { "boards": "unknown", "clocks": "unknown", "tables_count": null, "giant_pieces": "n/a", "src": 0 }, "audience": { "beginners_welcome": null, "kids": null, "adults_only": null, "languages": [], "src": 0 }, "formats": [ "classical", "rated_tournaments" ], "season": { "value": "unknown", "months": null, "src": 0 }, "federation": { "member": true, "body": "FIDE-rated (Belgian list)", "src": 3 }, "training": { "offers": [], "ages": null, "languages": [], "price": { "value": "unknown", "amount": null, "src": 0 }, "trial_lesson": null, "group_size": null, "coaches": [], "branches": null, "src": 0 }, "sessions": [], "status": { "value": "active", "evidence": "The FIDE list of rated tournaments carries the 6th edition in Brussels with nine weekly rounds from 4 January to 1 March 2025 and the 7th edition with rounds from 10 January to 28 February 2026, rated as standard time at 90 minutes plus 30 seconds. The list gives no venue. The FIDE record of the 2026 edition names as chief organiser the person whom the federation register lists as tournament director of the Cercle Royal des Échecs de Bruxelles; neither page says that the club runs the tournament.", "evidence_date": "2026-02-28", "moved_to": null, "src": 2 }, "contacts": { "website": null, "email": null, "phone": null, "social": [] }, "sources": [ { "url": "https://ratings.fide.com/a_tournaments.php?country=BEL&period=2025-02-01", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "6eme Memorial Rene Vannerom Ronde 1" }, { "url": "https://ratings.fide.com/a_tournaments.php?country=BEL&period=2025-04-01", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "6eme Memorial Rene Vannerom Ronde 9" }, { "url": "https://ratings.fide.com/a_tournaments.php?country=BEL&period=2026-03-01", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "7eme Memorial Rene Vannerom 2026 Rondes 5-7" }, { "url": "https://ratings.fide.com/tournament_information.phtml?event=459351", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "7eme Memorial Rene Vannerom 2026 Rondes 1-3" }, { "url": "https://ratings.fide.com/tournament_information.phtml?event=459351", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "Cornil, Etienne (BEL)" }, { "url": "https://www.frbe-kbsb-ksb.be/api/v1/clubs/anon/club/201", "kind": "federation", "flag": "official", "opened": true, "seen": "2026-10-14", "quote": "\"first_name\":\"Etienne\",\"last_name\":\"Cornil\"" } ] } ], "chess960": { "searched": [ "Chess960 OR \"Fischer Random\" OR Freestyle échecs Bruxelles tournoi 2026 (web search)", "FIDE rated-tournament list for Belgium, every month January 2025 to October 2026, scanned for 960, Fischer, Freestyle in event names (none)", "Chess-results.com search, country BEL, 2025-2026 (120 events), scanned for the same words (none)", "Club pages read for the same words: Brussels Chess Club, The Belgian Chess Club, Caïssa Woluwé, Europchess, CEWB, Richard Réti, Les Deux Fous, Ixelles Chess Club" ], "found": [ { "what": "Monthly Chess 960 evening at La Tourelle, Ixelles (Ixelles Chess Club)", "where_slug": "la-tourelle-ixelles", "when": "Third Thursday of the month, 19:00; calendar entry Thursday 15 October 2026", "url": "https://www.ixelleschessclub.com/", "quote": "les 3e jeudis du mois un Chess 960 à la Tourelle (Ixelles)" } ], "note": "One recurring over-the-board Chess960 evening was found, run by the Ixelles Chess Club. The same page also says the second Thursday of the month is a Freestyle evening (\"le 2e du jeudis du mois (un Freestyle)\"), so the exact week is stated two ways. No Chess960 or Freestyle event appears in the FIDE or chess-results listings for Belgium." }, "not_included": [ { "name": "The Otium Bar (members lounge near Place Poelaert)", "reason": "one-off chess evening on 10 September 2026, restricted to members of the lounge; no recurring chess found" }, { "name": "Café Greenwich (Brussels centre)", "reason": "the guide that names it (updated 10 October 2018) says chess players gradually left it; no current source" }, { "name": "Cercle d'Echecs de Rixensart (Genval)", "reason": "outside the named periphery; no chess source read ties it to Brussels" }, { "name": "Schaakkring Het Wit Paard (Kapelle-op-den-Bos)", "reason": "outside the metro area; no source ties it to Brussels" }, { "name": "Gambiet Opwijk", "reason": "outside the metro area; no source ties it to Brussels" }, { "name": "Schaakclub Leuven Centraal vzw", "reason": "Leuven, outside the metro area" }, { "name": "Dolle Toren Leuven", "reason": "Leuven, outside the metro area" }, { "name": "Zichemse Schaakclub", "reason": "Scherpenheuvel-Zichem, outside the metro area" }, { "name": "Het Pientere Paard (Schiplaken)", "reason": "Boortmeerbeek area, outside the metro area" }, { "name": "Boutersemse SK", "reason": "Boutersem, outside the metro area; the register gives no hours" }, { "name": "Chess Club BraBant Est (Jodoigne)", "reason": "Jodoigne, outside the metro area" }, { "name": "Cercle Royal d'Échecs de Nivelles, le Pion du Roi", "reason": "Nivelles, outside the metro area" }, { "name": "L'Echiquier de la Haute Senne (Soignies)", "reason": "Soignies, outside the metro area" }, { "name": "Pilar chess initiation (pilar.brussels)", "reason": "event page no longer exists (404); one-off event" }, { "name": "ChessPlus masterclass for teachers (Espadon pool, Etterbeek)", "reason": "one-off teacher-training day on 8 November 2025 run by a UK company with the European Chess Union Education Commission; recorded only as a dated trace of the venue under Les Deux Fous d'Etterbeek" }, { "name": "Meetup group \"Rencontres d'échecs\" (Knight Clubbers)", "reason": "listed on meetup.com for Paris; its events are in French cities (La Rochelle, Dijon, Paris, Rochefort), none in Brussels" }, { "name": "Animation Echecs tout public, bibliothèque municipale (macommune.info)", "reason": "Paray-le-Monial, France, dated 21 May 2025; not Brussels" }, { "name": "Chess & Mates Festival (Brussels, 5 September 2026)", "reason": "a single dated festival (5 September 2026, KBR and Palais de Charles de Lorraine); no source read establishes that it recurs. Its edition count is recorded under leads_unresolved" } ] }