All Daily tournaments on Chess.com are simultaneous round-robin knockout tournaments with groups. As TD, you will select how many players are per group, and the computer will decide who plays who.
Players advance through the groups until there is a single group remaining. The winner of the final group is the tournament champion, regardless of their overall points in the standings.
📝 Since players earn points each round, the final tournament winner may not have the most points overall.
Requirements to create a tournament
To create a tournament, you must be a Premium Member and meet the following criteria:
Win ratio: At least a 10% win ratio.
Timeout ratio: No more than a 15% timeout ratio.
If you want to create a Live (Bullet, Blitz, or Rapid) tournament, you must also be a Coordinator, Admin, or Super Admin of a Club.
📚 Check out this article to learn how to create a Live tournament: How can I create a Live (Blitz, Bullet, Rapid) Tournament?
Creating a Daily tournament
Click ‘Play’ on the left-side menu of any Chess.com page and select 'Tournaments' from the appearing menu
From the tournaments page, on the right sidebar click ‘Create Daily Tournament’
This will bring you to a new window with a list of options for your tournament. Once you have customized your tournament you can click 'Create' to bring your tournament to life!
Setting |
Details
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Tournament name | Set a name for your tournament! |
Days per move | This will be the time setting for all the games in the tournament. |
Group size | This is the number of players who will play each other in each round. Choose between two and 12.
A higher number here means more simultaneous games for each player. |
Max players | Select a maximum number of players to join your tournament, ranging from five to 250. |
Advance per group | This is the number of players who will move on to the next round from each group, choose one, two, or three.
The maximum number of players who can advance from a group is equal to (group size/2) rounded down. So, for a group of three, the max who can advance is one. For a group of five, the maximum number of people who can advance is two, and so on. |
Rating | Specify a range to limit your tournament to players within a certain rating range. |
Description box | Provide a brief description of your tournament, like who it's for and why they should join. |
Advanced options (Optional)
Click ‘Show Advanced Options’ to reveal the below options:
Setting
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Details |
Start date and time | By default, tournaments will auto-start whenever registration is full. Fill out these fields if you want the tournament to start at a specific date and time, whether it is full or not. |
Concurrent games per opponent | Each pairing will have two games, one where each player is black, and one for white. This setting allows you to decide if players will play their games simultaneously or sequentially. |
Minimum games | Use this field if you want players to have played a certain number of games before they can join your tournament. |
Max timeout % | Restrict players who exceed a certain timeout percentage. |
Player move speed | Change this field if you want only players with fast-move speeds to join. |
Game type | Choose standard chess, Chess960, or a specific opening for all games in the tournament to start with. |
Games are rated | Use it to choose if you want your tournament to be un-rated. New tournaments are set to be rated by default. |
Use tie breaks | Decide if you want to use tie breaks. This is on by default for new tournaments. 📚 Check out this article to learn more about tie-breaks: How do ties in tournaments work? |
Auto-start tournament when registration is full | Control whether the tournament starts when full or at a specific time. By default, new tournaments will start when they are full. |
Allow players to use vacation time | Allow or disallow players from using vacation time during the tournament. Many tournament hosts choose to turn this off because one or more players using all their vacation time can delay the tournament by weeks or months. |
Only allow premium members to participate | Restrict the tournament to only Premium Members. This setting is off by default. |
This is an invite-only tournament | Make the tournament invite-only to control who can join. If this is on all players will have to be invited by you to join. This setting is off by default. |
Use custom trophies | Enable this if you want to use your own images for the first, second, and third-place trophies.
Click on the images to upload your own image from your computer. |