Dear chess community,
We are excited to launch the official ChessPairings.org Community Forum — a place where tournament organizers, arbiters, players, and chess enthusiasts can connect, share experiences, and help shape the future of our platform.
What is ChessPairings.org?
ChessPairings.org is a free, web-based chess tournament management platform. It supports FIDE Dutch and Burstein pairing systems, handles Swiss and Round Robin tournaments, computes all official FIDE tiebreaks (Buchholz, Sonneborn-Berger, and more), and integrates directly with the FIDE rating database — currently over 1.8 million players.
What can you do here?
- Introductions — Say hello and tell us about your chess club or federation
- General Discussions — Chat about chess, tournament organization, and regulations
- Tournaments — Discuss pairings, tiebreaks, and share your tournament experiences
- Suggestions — Propose new features and improvements you'd like to see
- Bugs — Report any issues so we can fix them quickly
Forum Rules
- Be respectful and constructive
- Stay on topic within each category
- Use English in this section (other languages have their own forum)
- No spam or self-promotion unrelated to chess
- When reporting bugs, include as much detail as possible
We read every post and reply as quickly as we can. Your feedback directly influences our development roadmap.
Welcome aboard, and long live chess!