Can I run a private tournament on Chess.com?

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AaronOnChess

Hey - if anyone can help this would be great. I want to arrange a private chess tournament for my work as a charity event. It would be a private tournament. Is this something I can do through chess.com?

Shoveller762
If everyone is a chess.com member, you could host a daily tournament (if you have premium), and then make it invitation only.
I think you can do a similar thing with a live tourney in clubs.
Martin_Stahl
AaronOnChess wrote:

Hey - if anyone can help this would be great. I want to arrange a private chess tournament for my work as a charity event. It would be a private tournament. Is this something I can do through chess.com?

 

As mentioned, you could do a Daily Chess tourney, as a premium member. For Live Chess, the best way would likely be to create a private club, and once all the players are on site, have them join the club or directly invite them.

 

The Live tourney system isn't very flexible, so you would be left with using the automatic pairing system, or do manual pairings and have each player create unrated challenges to there opponents. I've done that before, though there are sometimes some issues.

goldenbeer
Would be nice if chess.com adds this feature for live tournaments as well as designing a payment method, so that according to some rules (that tournament creator defines), the money (which tournament creator put in) will be split among the winners. Chess.com may also take 1% of each tournament, thus overall quickly returns the cost of implementation and maintenance + extra benefits.