- July 15, 2022
New Design for the Registration process on Tornelo online platform. Share your thoughts and help us improve your experience.
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- July 5, 2022
Set up rules for your half-point byes requst, award trophies for players and enjoy other improved features.
- June 9, 2022
Limburg Open with 450 players chose Tornelo cloud-based management system and was able to start the 1st round in record time!
- May 1, 2022
A group of German pioneers made a history running the first ever hybrid league on e-boards! 6 strong German teams are meeting in their local venues every second Wednesday to play their opponents via Tornelo.
- April 27, 2022
After 4+ months of rigorous testing by the World Chess Federation (FIDE), today Tornelo received official FIDE endorsement as a software pairing program / tournament manager.
- April 20, 2022
You can now print all your tournament data, nicely formatted by using our new Print button!
- April 5, 2022
Updates this week to FIDE Mode restrict your ability to set custom scoring.
- March 30, 2022
We released a little early this week because we were just too excited to make …
- March 16, 2022
Today’s release was another Major Milestone with some significant changes and huge new features! There …
- February 9, 2022
Player profiles, forbidden pairs and new look for Organizations Our release this week is mostly …
- January 21, 2022
e-Boards for Hybrid chess tournaments or Broadcasting chess games live We provide an incredibly convenient …
- December 10, 2021
FIDE Endorsement of a software Pairings Program Today’s release is specially dedicated to the International …
- December 8, 2021
Publishing pairings in an OTB chess tournament, void invoices and fair play report updates A …
- December 3, 2021
Check in process for chess tournaments After the major release last week it’s good to …
- November 24, 2021
Live online pairings program, multiple tie-breaks and ratings from 15 Federations It has been just …
- August 19, 2021
Connect external player profiles Our release this week is mostly bug fixes, performance updates and …
- August 5, 2021
This week we released a number of changes “under the hood”. You may not even …
- July 31, 2021
1. Feature: Smart cheating mode on Fair Play report The Fair Play report has some …
- July 26, 2021
This week you may have noticed some new options in your Tournament Settings, which will …
- July 15, 2021
1. Feature: Restart a finished game Let’s imagine a game ended in a draw, or …
- June 27, 2021
Some more minor updates this week as we finished the integration with the FIDE Rating …
- June 10, 2021
A minor update went live today, mostly fixing outstanding logic issues or sneaky bugs from …
- June 3, 2021
Our vision is to become the easiest, most beautiful and best chess tournament management system …
- May 31, 2021
Get ready for some major changes and very cool new features on Tornelo. In the …
- May 23, 2021
The Court of Arbitration in Sport (CAS), and international sports law in general, has long …
- April 30, 2021
This has been a challenging week for our users and I’d like to thank everyone …
- April 24, 2021
The year is 2026, the Melbourne Chess Club annual club championships is starting in a …
- April 22, 2021
1. Feature: Fair Play “smart cheating” mode The Fair Play report is designed to give …
- March 26, 2021
By far and away our most requested feature from players has been the ability to …
- March 20, 2021
Our theme for this post is Bullets. In a controversial week for Tornelo our first …
- March 17, 2021
Tick-tock! 1. Feature: Multiple game periods on clocks Clock settings on Tornelo now offer multiple …
- March 16, 2021
Tornelo does something quite unique in the world of online chess platforms. We have the …
- March 2, 2021
This month our focus was on speed! We are hosting the World Universities Online Chess …
- February 21, 2021
Way back in August I was listening to Adam Raoof’s The Chess Circuit podcast and …
- January 31, 2021
It’s been nearly 3 months since we last released changes to Tornelo, but you’re about …
- January 19, 2021
A landmark announcement today with FIDE declaring that Hybrid Chess Tournaments (played online) will now …
- January 2, 2021
Think of cheating in online chess tournaments like a virus, and catching a cheater is …
- December 21, 2020
Waiting until the end of an event and sending a PGN file to Ken might …
- December 10, 2020
A lot has been said about how to identify players who may be getting unfair …
- November 11, 2020
It’s been another busy few weeks with some fairly major features to report, including our …
- October 20, 2020
I was a little bit slack with my release notes (preparing to win FIDE selection …
- October 16, 2020
It’s a funny story after the fact…. but at the time I feel for the …
- October 5, 2020
A major milestone was reached today with the release of our new Responsive Game Board. …
- September 26, 2020
I get this question a lot when Organisers and Arbiters are evaluating Tornelo as the …
- September 21, 2020
The European Youth Online Chess Championships was a great opportunity to showcase the rich features …
- September 20, 2020
Over the past decade Tornelo has been used to manage a wide variety of events; …
- September 17, 2020
Starting tomorrow we are hosting the European Chess Union’s Online Youth Championships. This will see …
- September 9, 2020
Our release this week introduces a number of arbiter controls over clocks during a game. 1. Feature: …
- August 26, 2020
Our first experience with online cheating was traumatic to say the least. In the early …
- August 23, 2020
Young Sparks is a community initiative by Max Biocare for children of MBc family and …