​More control over your online, hybrid or OTB chess tournaments & events

243+ Organisations and 953+ arbiters are running better chess events in 2020 ...

Australia
​​8,916+ events
​74,530+ players

New Zealand
​1,767+ events
​21,911+ players

United Kingdom
32+ events
​182+ players

We are proud to be the Official Tournament Management Platform of the European Chess Union - the peak body for 54 countries in Europe.

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Official Platform of the European Online Youth Chess Championship

European Online Youth Chess Championship
(18-20 September)
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European Online Corporate Chess Championship
​(3-4 October)

Built for Organisers

More control over your online, hybrid or OTB chess tournaments & events.

Thank you as a chesser for designing such a platform. This tournament was a great experience for me. After receiving the IA title in 2015, I have been the chief arbiter many times. Everything was now automatic for me. I was doing my arbiter duties without thinking, reflexively. But with this tournament, I felt the excitement of the early days again. Something was both old and very new.

Before the pandemic process, I was using chess.com and lichess sites for my players in my clubs. After the pandemic process, we started using it more like the whole world. But Tornelo cannot be compared to any other gaming platform. You designed it great. I am sure it will develop further. Whether the pandemic process is over or not in the world, Tornelo will be used much more in the future. Because it's no different from a real tournament. Everything is under control. I think, you will soon receive offers from many countries to use Tornelo. I am sure that will come from my country (Turkey). I think, Tornelo will be the number one gaming platform that is widely used. After EOYCC, many arbiters and organizers from my country asked me what the system was how. I said I liked it very much and it was useful. 
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Melih ÇİÇEK  IA, FI and IO

Tornelo is an amazing platform that is perfect for all online tournaments! It is very easy to use and makes things easy for participants. It is also safety-focused so no one is able to message any of my participants. I switched to Tornelo and all of my students had a blast!

The Zoom feature allowed me to easily connect with the players in between rounds so no one was ever bored. The staff at Tornelo is also extremely helpful - David answered all of my questions and even gave me some great ideas on how to make my tournaments more fun.

I highly recommend Tornelo for all your tournament needs.
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- Melissa Miller (lifelongchessacademy.com)

Tornelo was built to make the lives of chess tournament organsiers easier. Efficiently setup, manage and run an event with just minutes of effort!

Tornelo gives the power to arbiters and organisers. Run the event YOUR way.   This improves the event experience for players - ultimately ensuring more players, play more chess, more often.

The only platform where anonymity is prohibited, but privacy is protected. Online events and OTB events run the same way!

Perfect for:
✓  Coaches
✓  Tournament Directors
✓  Arbiters
✓  Club managers
✓  Scholastic programs

Simple and powerful, eliminates any problems with users not being able to log-in, using a wrong account or having multiple accounts.

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Watch this in depth walkthrough of how to run your first event using Tornelo.

Simple and beautiful

Arbiters and Organisers can maintain full control over all your events!

Dealing With Cheating

Powerful Features

For Arbiters

✓  Online, offline or hybrid events
✓  Swiss or Round-robin
✓  Share results
✓  Live games
✓  Public or private events
✓  Multiple divisions
✓  Import/Export TRF files
✓  Import/Export PGN files
✓  Manage player FIDE ID's
✓  Easily share upcoming, in progress or completed events 
✓  Unlimited players and rounds
✓  Anti-cheating "Fair Play" screening

For Coaches

✓  Strong privacy features
✓  Online games
✓  Multiple parents can manage a single player
✓  One parent can manage multiple children
✓  Live games
✓  Team events
✓  ​Easy integration with Video Conferencing platforms

For Organisations

✓  Create events, appoint arbiters
✓  Collect entry fees
✓  Build your database by collecting email and phone
✓  Create and view a series of events
✓  Own Branding
✓  Player profiles and ratings
✓  Archive of events, results, games
✓  Sophisticated privacy compliance

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For Players

✓  Call Arbiter during online games
✓  Live updates to ratings
✓  ​Privacy controls, take control over who sees your name online
✓  Arbiter can pause your clock to deal with issues so you don't lose on time

For Spectators

✓  All games broadcast live
✓  All results and pairings broadcast
✓  Choose to watch any game

Online, Offline or Hybrid events

Tornelo was created on the cloud in 2008 as a web-based pairing program for over-the-board chess tournaments.

In early 2020 we added the capability for arbiters to run online events.

This makes us the natural choice for running hybrid chess events!

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