You can organise and participate in tournaments on the Playchess server. However, starting a tournament is restricted to properly registered users who have at least the rank of Bishop.

 

Starting a tournament

File Menu – New – Tournament

 

You can only hold a tournament in one of the tournament rooms.

 

Clicking File Menu - New - Tournament there will get you a dialog which allows you to start a tournament. A wizzard will lead you through the formalities.

 

 

Example for setting up a Knock out tournament with two rounds. The first 4 games are used to eliminate the weaker players and the second round is for the best out of 6. A description of the different types of tournaments can be read in the topic Tournament types.

 

The Next button will bring you to the time controls.

 

 

Note: You can give the extra playing time here (Playoff bonus) for White in the decisive game. After this you will get the Tournament assistent in which you can send out the announcement to the other players on the server.

 

 

After you have started the tournament you can decide which players can take part, adding or removing them from the list. To do so right-click a player and use "Add" or "Remove". You can Ctrl-click a number of players and then add them all to the tournament.

 

Note that List -> Chat publishes the current list of participants in the chat window. Broadcast resends the tournament announcement.

 

Once you have all the participants in the list you will get a tournament management dialog, where you can start rounds, send chat messages to the participants, correct results, etc. Do not close the tournament manager while the tournament is running.

 

Note that if there are connection problems in a board then both players should close their board windows. After that you can restart the game.

 

During the tournament a HTML tournament table is automatically generated and updated after every round. It is displayed in the Info window.

 

 

Note that it is possible to interrupt a tournament and continue it later. Simply close the tournament, and then, when you want to continue, click File Menu – Open – Tournament.