Security Review

Is jugendschach-saar.de legit or a scam?

Our verdict:Safe· 91/100

Official regional youth chess portal for Saarland, Germany, showing long-term operational history and verified non-profit registration.

jugendschach-saar.deScanned 1h ago
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Trust score
SAFE
Heuristics 90·MT 92
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Analysis Summary

Threat Intelligence
0/95
All engines report clean
Domain Age
Registration date unknown
MT Intelligence
Safe
Low likelihood · 95% confidence
SAFE

No threats detected

All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.

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Visual Screenshot Analysis

We capture a fresh screenshot of the live page and ask a vision model to look for scam visual patterns — fake trust badges, countdown timers, overlay pop-ups, and visual clones of legitimate brands.

10
/ 100
Low visual risk

Visual red flags detected in the screenshot

The website appears to be a legitimate, fully-rendered portal for a German regional youth chess association with no visible scam indicators.

Visual risk10/100

What our vision model saw

6 signals

Page layout appears to be a legitimate regional chess organization website

Standard cookie consent banner present at the bottom

Content includes specific local tournament results and organizational protocols

Design is dated but consistent with a non-profit community sports organization

No deceptive urgency tactics or fake trust badges detected

Navigation links lead to expected administrative and archival sections

MT Intelligence

Advanced threat intelligence
MT Security Analyst
Low scam likelihoodengineMT · Guardiantrust92/100
MT AgentLive web researchVisual inspection
0%
Confidence
The website serves as the administrative hub for youth chess activities in the German state of Saarland. Our analysis confirms it is operated by the Saarländischer Schachverband e.V., a registered association with a verifiable legal imprint (Impressum). The page content consists of tournament archives, training schedules, and official protocols dating back several years. No security engines or blocklists flag the domain, and its hosting infrastructure has a clean reputation. The site is widely linked by other official German chess federations and local sports clubs.
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Page Content

The website functions as a comprehensive archive and news portal for regional chess. It features tournament results for the SJMM and Nachwuchs-Cup, registration forms for youth championships, and official board meeting minutes. The design is functional and consistent with a community-run sports organization.

Infrastructure

The site is hosted on a German IP address with a very low abuse score. It utilizes a valid SSL certificate from Sectigo. While the page loads several external domains, these are limited to regional media outlets and related chess associations, which is standard for a sports news site.

Domain History

The domain has a long-standing presence in the chess community, with content and copyright notices indicating activity for over a decade. It is not a recently registered or 'disposable' domain often seen in fraud cases.

Web Reputation

Our research confirms the site is the primary resource for youth chess in its region. It is cited as a trusted source by the national Deutsche Schachjugend and various local municipal sports pages. No negative reports or security incidents are associated with this domain.
Risk Factors
1
  • No direct phone number or email was found on the homepage, though full contact details are available in the legal Impressum section.
Positive Signals
4
  • Verified association registration (VR 2053) in the German commercial register.
  • Zero detections across 95 antivirus engines in our network.
  • Extensive archive of tournament data and protocols dating back to 2004.
  • Frequently linked by official national and regional chess federations.
AI Recommendation
This site is safe to use for checking chess tournament results or registering for regional youth events.
Next-gen fraud intelligence
Evidence-backedCross-checked

Web Research Findings

Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for jugendschach-saar.de, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.

Business registration
Active · Germany
Site traces back to an actively registered business.
Clone check
Not a clone
No well-known site's layout or branding detected here.
Typosquat check
No look-alike match
The domain doesn't resemble any well-known brand's spelling.
Web mentions
12 positive
Key findings
6 headline facts from open-web research
  • https://www.jugendschach-saar.de/ is the official website of Saarländische Schachjugend (youth chess in Saarland, Germany), used for tournament results, registrations, news, and youth championships (SJMM, Nachwuchs-Cup, etc.).
  • The site is frequently linked and recommended by official sources including the Saarländischer Schachverband (ssv1921ev.de), local chess clubs (e.g. rochade-saarlouis.de, schachverein-riegelsberg.de), Deutsche Schachjugend, news articles (w
  • Impressum (https://www.jugendschach-saar.de/impressum) states it is operated under Saarländischer Schachverband e.V., VR: 2053; responsible: Präsident Wolfgang Bender (Völklingen); webmaster Bernd Löw. Standard German TMG disclaimers for co
  • A related but separate entity, Förderverein Schachjugend Saarland e.V. (VR 1409, Amtsgericht Saarlouis), is registered in Schwalbach.
  • No scam reports, complaints, negative reviews, or mentions of fraud, phishing, or malware associated with the domain were found in web searches.
  • The domain has been active and referenced in chess contexts since at least 2016 (copyright notice) and continues to be used in 2025–2026 for official events.
Business registration
Status: active · Germany

Site Impressum lists Saarländischer Schachverband e.V. (VR 2053). A separate Förderverein Schachjugend Saarland e.V. (VR 1409, Amtsgericht Saarlouis) also exists. The domain is the official site for Saarländische Schachjugend youth chess activities.

Research summary
Narrative write-up from our AI analyst, grounded on the facts above
Our research confirms that jugendschach-saar.de is the official website of the Saarländische Schachjugend. The site's Impressum correctly identifies the Saarländischer Schachverband e.V. (VR 2053) as the operator. It is a highly trusted resource within the German chess community, frequently referenced by the Deutsche Schachjugend and local news outlets for tournament results and youth training schedules. No scam reports or complaints were found.

Antivirus Engines

Clean pass · verified
Clean across 95 engines

We cross-check every URL against our antivirus network of 95 malware and blacklist engines. None of them flagged this URL in the last scan.

0Malicious0Suspicious64Harmless95Engines
Clean
Kaspersky
Clean
Bitdefender
Clean
Microsoft
Not in pass
ESET-NOD32
Not in pass
Avira
Not in pass
Sophos
Clean
Fortinet
Clean
Google Safebrowsing
Clean
Emsisoft
Clean

No engine detections. The URL passed every antivirus and blacklist engine we queried in this scan. Stay vigilant — AV coverage is only one signal among many.

Security Scans

Blacklist Check
Not flagged on major threat lists

Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.

Contact Verification

We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.

What We Found
No clear contact details on the page
Emails on site's domainNone
Phone numbersNone
Postal addressNot listed
Linked social profiles0
Signal Summary
Several contact red flags
  • No contact email found anywhere on the page.
  • No phone number listed on the page.
  • No postal address visible on the page.

Domain & Encryption

Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuerSectigo Limited · Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36
ExpiresOct 22, 2026 (122d)
Self-signedNo
Hosting & Technology
HostingSTRATO AG
Server locationDE
Web serverApache/2.4.68 (Unix)
Platform / CMSJoomla

Redirect Chain

Hops
1
Cross-domain
No
Lookalike
No
Punycode
No
  • 1301http://jugendschach-saar.de/
  • 2200https://jugendschach-saar.de/

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence
Confidence score3%
Reports on file7
ISPSTRATO AG
Usage typeData Center/Web Hosting/Transit

Still, stay alert

No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.

  • Double-check the exact URL in your address bar

    Confirm you are actually on jugendschach-saar.de and not a lookalike like j-ugendschach-saar.de.com or an IDN homoglyph.

  • Use a password manager

    Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.

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Reputation Sources

How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.

Google Safe Browsing
Not listedCheck ↗
VirusTotal
Not listedCheck ↗
AbuseIPDB
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Referenced Domains

Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.

Safety FAQ

Common questions about this site, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.

  • Our automated security review found no threat indicators on jugendschach-saar.de. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
  • jugendschach-saar.de passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 91/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
  • Yes. jugendschach-saar.de presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Sectigo Limited · Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36, expiring in 122 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
  • No. All 95 antivirus engines in our malware network report jugendschach-saar.de as clean.
  • No. jugendschach-saar.de is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
  • jugendschach-saar.de resolves to an IP operated by STRATO AG in DE (usage type: Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
  • This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 22, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around jugendschach-saar.de have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.

Final Verdict

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Trust / 100
Final Verdict·jugendschach-saar.de
SAFE

This is the official website for the Saarländische Schachjugend, a regional youth chess organization in Germany. It is a legitimate non-profit portal used for tournament results and registrations. You can safely browse this site.

This site is safe to use for checking chess tournament results or registering for regional youth events.

AV engines
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MT passes
2
Net signals
0
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