Release Notes 2020-10-20
I was a little bit slack with my release notes (preparing to win FIDE selection for World Youth & Cadets!) and didn’t share the updates we made last week. There…
Release Notes 2020-10-05
A major milestone was reached today with the release of our new Responsive Game Board. This will provide a massively improved player experience, allowing games to take place from phones,…
Ensuring Fair Play
I get this question a lot when Organisers and Arbiters are evaluating Tornelo as the platform for hosting their High Stakes chess tournament. “How can we ensure there is absolutely…
Can you be too agile?
The European Youth Online Chess Championships was a great opportunity to showcase the rich features of Tornelo to players and organisers around the world. But… The first time you do…
European Online Youth Chess Championship
Over the past decade Tornelo has been used to manage a wide variety of events; coaching classes, kids rapid play tournaments, interschool events, weekend congresses, FIDE rated events and even…
Release Notes 2020-09-17
Starting tomorrow we are hosting the European Chess Union’s Online Youth Championships. This will see over 750 of the best young players in Europe playing in a Hybrid style event.…
Release Notes 2020-09-10
Our release this week introduces a number of arbiter controls over clocks during a game. 1. Feature: Pause Clocks These settings are all optional and can be controlled from the Event Settings page. The ability to…
Our first experience with online chess cheating.
Our first experience with online cheating was traumatic to say the least. In the early Covid lockdowns we setup an online chess tournament, not expecting much and were blown away…
Why dealing with cheating in chess needs human input.
I’d like to unpack the cheating-in-chess-events phenomonen which is sweeping the globe even more quickly than Covid-19. And offer a solution. What is cheating and how do players do it?…
Fair Play report (Beta)
Tornelo today released a Fair Play report feature for Arbiters. This will provide round-by-round analysis of games to help Arbiters build trust in their community. We try not to call…