Staff and arbiter access

Tournament staff records who officiates your event — and it's what ends up in the FIDE report. Access to the cockpit itself is a separate matter, covered below.

Recording tournament staff

In the cockpit's Configuration tab, the Tournament Staff section lists your officials with their role and FIDE/national IDs. Three roles exist:

• Chief Arbiter — exactly one per tournament.
• Deputy Arbiter — as many as you need.
• Organizer — as many as you need.

Click Add Staff Member, pick the role, and search for the person by name or FIDE/federation ID. If they're not found, use Create new to add them with their name and identifiers. Remove staff with the trash icon.

The chief and deputy arbiters recorded here are exported in the FIDE TRF report — see Exports, TPNs and the poster.

Each staff row also shows whether that person is linked to a Chesstide account — the account's email, or No account. That link matters: see below.

Who can use the cockpit

The cockpit is available to:

• the tournament's creator,
• administrators of the organization the tournament belongs to,
• staff members whose person record is linked to their Chesstide account,
• Chesstide administrators.

That third case is the one that surprises people. Recording someone as staff grants nothing on its own — the access comes from the link between the person record and a real account, which the person creates themselves with Link your chess profile on their account page (see Your account and profile). Until they do, the staff row reads No account and they can't open the cockpit; once they have, the row shows their email and they can manage the tournament in full.

So to give your arbiter working access, either add their Chesstide account as an administrator of your organization (see Managing your organization), or have them link their profile and record them as Chief Arbiter — which gets the paperwork right at the same time.

Tip: The two lists still answer different questions: staff answers "who officiated?" (for players and FIDE), organization administrators answers "who can click the buttons?" — with linked staff accounts as the overlap.