Chess Tournament Manager

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About this app

Chess Tournament Manager

Run chess tournaments for your club, school, college, or community group — right from your Android device. Chess Tournament Manager handles everything from player registration to final standings, using a pairing engine built on the same principles as official Swiss, Round Robin, and Knockout systems.

Whether you're a school chess coach running a lunchtime ladder, a college club organizing an inter-hostel event, or a local chess club hosting a weekend tournament, this app takes the manual work out of pairings, scoring, and tiebreaks.

Tournament Formats
✔ Swiss System pairings
✔ Round Robin scheduling
✔ Knockout brackets

Set up a new tournament in minutes and manage every round from your phone — no laptop, no spreadsheets, no paper pairing sheets.

Smart Swiss Pairing Engine
Built around widely-used Swiss pairing principles, with features chess organizers actually need:
• Balanced color allocation and color preference handling
• Full color history tracking round to round
• Automatic bye allocation
• Mid-tournament withdrawal support
• Dummy-opponent tiebreak handling for withdrawn players
• Accurate Buchholz and Sonneborn-Berger tiebreak calculations
• Stable, repeatable, deterministic pairings every round

Player Database
Keep a reusable roster across all your tournaments:
• Ratings and titles
• Federation / school / club affiliation
• FIDE ID (optional, for reference only)
• Duplicate-player detection
• Fast search across large rosters
• Safe player removal that never breaks past tournament records

Everything You Need to Run a Tournament
• Round-by-round pairings
• Live standings and cross tables
• Automatic tiebreak calculations
• Printable/exportable tournament reports
• Round-by-round management
• Player withdrawal handling
• Backup and restore, with automatic conflict handling on restore

Built for Club, School & College Organizers
Chess Tournament Manager is designed for the tournaments that make up most real-world chess activity:
• Chess clubs and community groups
• School and scholastic chess programs
• College and university chess societies
• Academy and coaching-center events
• Casual and rated local tournaments

It's a practical tool for grassroots and amateur-level events — not a certified system for official FIDE-rated championships, so you get the flexibility to run things your way without the pressure of high-stakes, professionally-arbitrated play.

Your Data Stays With You
All tournament data is stored on your device. Back up any tournament at any time and restore it whenever you need — move between devices, recover an event, or archive past seasons with confidence.

Why Organizers Choose Chess Tournament Manager
✔ Fast, simple setup — no chess-software experience needed
✔ Reliable Swiss pairing logic with proper tiebreak math
✔ Built for clubs, schools, and colleges, not just big federations
✔ Clear standings and cross tables every round
✔ Local backup and restore, no cloud dependency
✔ Actively updated based on organizer feedback

We're continuously improving Chess Tournament Manager based on feedback from club organizers, school coaches, and everyday tournament directors.

Download today and run your next club, school, or college chess tournament with confidence.

What’s new

• Improved Swiss pairing engine and color balancing.
• Implemented FIDE C.07 Dummy Opponent tie-break calculations.
• Enhanced player withdrawal handling.
• Added duplicate player support and smarter duplicate resolution during tournament restore.
• Moved Restore Tournament to the Create Tournament screen.
• Added Player Discard workflow.
• Improved UI, localization and overall stability.
• Fixed multiple bugs and added extensive regression tests.