Set a name for your tournament!

Provide a brief description of your tournament, like who it's for and why they should join.

Choose Standard or Chess960.

Choose a standard start, a book opening, or a custom FEN position for all games in the tournament. Choosing a book opening or custom FEN makes the tournament unrated. This option is only available for Standard games.

This will be the time setting for all the games in the tournament, from 1 to 14 days.

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.

Select a maximum number of players to join your tournament, up to 250. The options go up in steps based on your group size.

Specify a range to limit your tournament to players within a certain rating range. Ratings must be between 600 and 2500, with at least 50 points between the minimum and maximum.

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.

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.

The time is in your own time zone, and you can set it once you pick a date.

Change this field if you want only players with fast move speeds to join: Above Average (under 12 hours), Fast (under 6 hours), or Very Fast (under 3 hours).

Use this field if you want members to have played a certain number of games before they can join your tournament.

Restrict players who exceed a certain timeout percentage. The default is 20%.

Each pairing will have two games, one where each player is White and one where they're Black. This setting lets you decide if players will play their games simultaneously or one at a time. By default, they play both at once.

Use this to make your tournament unrated. New tournaments are rated by default.

Decide if you want to use tie breaks. This is on by default for new tournaments.

Control whether the tournament starts when full or at a specific time. By default, new tournaments will start when they are full.

Allow or disallow players from using vacation time during the tournament. This is on by default. 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.

Restrict the tournament to only Premium Members. This setting is off by default.

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. When it's on, you can also let your friends join, or members of a club you're an admin of. This setting is off by default.

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.