Talk:Tag:sport=chess

Cafes

Ho to map a cafe which offers board games? sport=chess is a start, but it is not only for chess... How about sport=board games?

- User:Samden 00:57, 24 September 2012‎

Good question. Hmm. I was going to suggest board_games=yes but I'm quite surprised nobody's using that already. Looking at the stats: https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=board_games#values ...There's currently only 2 occurrences of sport=board_games, and 5 games=board_games . In the UK a lot of pubs have board games so I would have expected this to be a common thing to map, but not sure what everyone's using to tag this.

-- Harry Wood (talk) 14:30, 8 June 2015 (UTC)

A chess board is not a picnic table

leisure=picnic_table + sport=chess is a quite odd combination. Obviously the table is used for the game, not for picnic. The wiki statement was made by user 'Webmind', with very few contributions 2012/2013. The same-named OSM user (which might be a different person) has 0 edits. Thus I doubt that tagging is based on community consensus. --Polarbear w (talk) 12:42, 2 June 2021 (UTC)

There is amenity=table as an alternative. However, it seems like a less popular synonym for leisure=picnic_table. The question remains as to what would be the correct physical feature one should use in combination with sport=chess to map a public chess table? Currently the combination leisure=picnic_table + sport=chess is used over a 1000 times across the world, see overpass turbo.--Kjon (talk) 14:47, 2 June 2021 (UTC)

amenity=table appears to be a plausible alternative, correctly describing the physical feature. 1K of misguided use is not a reason to stick to a misleading semantic. Rendering in Carto was just rejects for this reason. --Polarbear w (talk) 09:05, 3 June 2021 (UTC)

I agree for dedicated chess tables, but there are also picnic tables with an integrated chess board (like this one: [1]) and they are used for both functions. The labeling leisure=picnic_table + sport=chess is correct in this case.--Martinh13 (talk) 08:37, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

How to tag whether the chess pieces are there or not?

At least in Munich, Germany, some places have (big) chess pieces stored next to the giant chess board. As this is important to someone that wants to check out these places, I would like to document / tag them. But I don't know which tag to use? :D