Free/basic members are only allowed one active member created tournament at a time.They can be part of an unlimited number of Official Chess.com tournaments.
You could always set up manual tournaments within your group, if that would be a problem. Just create a forum topic for the tournament, with the pairings, and have a player in each pairing start a new game with the appropriate settings.
Hi,
I'm starting a small school chess club (20-30 members) and was hoping to set up some small tournaments on chess.com. Is this possible?
I don't mind paying for a premium membership for myself if this will allow me to set up the tournaments but will my school kids be able to play in the tournaments if I get them to sign up with free accounts?
How would they be restricted as free members? Can they only play in one tournament at a time or will they permitted to play just a single tournament and then be blocked?
I was planning to set up a "Group" that I would restrict to the students and run the online section of the club there. Then I could have the regular fun/practice games in the school at lunchtime.
Any thoughts/ideas would be hugely appreciated as I've never run a chess club before!
Thanks,
John.