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How to run a chess tournament

These guides walk you through running club tournaments on ChessLivo, from your first group to the final standings and ratings. Read them in order, or go straight to the task at hand.

  1. Getting started with club tournaments

    What groups are on ChessLivo, how to get an account, create your group and follow its checklist from the first players to a finalized tournament.

  2. Manage a group and its players

    Group settings, adding players with nicknames and initial ratings, showing full names with the players' consent, anonymizing a player and deleting a group.

  3. Run a round robin tournament

    Create a round robin, add the players, draw the starting order, pair every round from the FIDE Berger tables, publish rounds and handle withdrawals.

  4. Run a Swiss tournament

    Create a Swiss, pair each round by the FIDE Dutch system, check and publish it, and handle requested byes, withdrawals and late entries.

  5. Run a team tournament

    Teams, rosters and lineups for team round robins and team Swiss: boards per match, match and game points, publishing rounds and team standings.

  6. Results, finalizing and ratings

    Enter and correct results, read the standings, finalize a tournament or end a Swiss early, and how group ratings change by the FIDE rating formula.

  7. Co-organizers: owner, admins and arbiters

    Who may do what in a group, how to invite admins and arbiters by email, change their roles, leave a group and transfer its ownership.

  8. Ad-hoc tournaments without a club

    Run a one-off tournament with typed player names and no group: how to create it, what it can do, and why it stays unrated and private until you share it.

  9. Public pages, printing and TRF export

    What visitors see of your group and its tournaments, how visibility works, printing rounds and standings, and exporting a tournament as a TRF-2026 file.

  10. Broadcast your tournament live

    Show your over-the-board games live: create a broadcast, plan its rounds and send the boards from DGT, a PGN file, a public link or a script.

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