What's New

Swap a player or team holding a bye

In the cockpit you can now swap a player or team that has an assigned bye with another entrant, and the bye point moves to whoever takes the seat. Requested byes (full, half or zero-point) stay locked, since they belong to the player who asked for them.

Add several players in a row without reopening the dialog

In the cockpit, adding a player from the search tab now keeps the Add Entry popup open and clears the search, ready for the next name. A running count shows how many you've added, and Done closes the popup and refreshes the list once.

Long matches: up to 1000 games per pairing and 1000 rounds

Round-robin tournaments now allow up to 1000 games per pairing and up to 1000 rounds, so long formats such as a 24-game world-championship match or a many-game blitz match can be set up as a two-player round-robin.

Recalculate a Points Challenge ranking

Recalculating the combined standings of a Points Challenge no longer fails with a security-validation error.

Festival groups: one entry across parallel tournaments

A new Festival group type lets you run several parallel tournaments (for example by rating or age section) where each player enters exactly one. Players pick their section during a single registration, and organizers can move a player from one section to another before pairings are made.

Tournament groups now appear in public listings

Published groups — festivals and challenges — now show up right alongside individual tournaments on the homepage and the Tournaments page, so visitors discover them where they already browse. Each group appears as a single stacked-card that hints at the events inside, and a new Publish button makes a group public when you're ready.

Reopen a completed tournament

Organizers can now reopen a tournament that was marked complete, to correct results, revert a round or continue play, and then complete it again — no need to ask an administrator.

Link a club (as an organization) to its national federation membership

A club organization can now be linked to its official national-federation club record (starting with the Belgian RBCF), shown on the club's profile. The link is picked from a search on the club form.

Friendlier error pages

If something goes wrong or a page can't be found, you now see a clear, chess-themed error page with a way back home or to the previous page, instead of a raw technical message.

Understand each group type as you create it

The Create group form now shows a short explanation of the selected type — Collection, Points Challenge or Festival — that updates as you change your choice, so it's clear which one fits your event.

Create an organization from the public directory

The public Organizations directory now has a Create Organization button, so signed-in users can add a club or organization without first going to My Organizations.

Players added at the desk are ready to pair

When a tournament manager adds a player through the cockpit, that player is now checked in automatically — adding someone at the desk implies they're present, so they can be paired right away without a separate check-in step.

Round-robin tournaments with just two players or teams

You can now run a round-robin (all-play-all) tournament with only two players or teams, instead of it being rejected for having too few entrants.

Linking a federation ID keeps a player's exact birth date

Linking a national-federation ID that only knows a birth year no longer overwrites a player's already-known full birth date with a January 1st placeholder.

Tournament Groups: link your events together

You can now group several tournaments under one banner. Create a Collection to showcase a series of related events on a single public page, or a Points Challenge to build a combined ranking across all the events — with per-event weightings, dropped scores and configurable tie-breaks. A new 'My groups' area, linked from My tournaments, lets you create and manage your groups and attach the tournaments you organize.

Stay logged in while a form is open in another tab

Submitting a form you'd left open in another tab or on an earlier page no longer bounces you to the login screen. You now stay signed in throughout your session.

Federation ID lookup ignores stray spaces

Searching for a player by federation ID now works even if the ID has leading or trailing spaces, instead of silently returning no results.

Faster page loads during live tournaments

We've made further behind-the-scenes performance improvements so pages stay fast and responsive even during busy live events.

Public organizations directory

A new public directory lets anyone browse the clubs and organizations on Chesstide, making it easier to discover who's running events.

Faster public pairings and standings during live events

The public pairings and standings pages now load near-instantly even when a crowd of spectators — signed in or not — keeps refreshing during a busy live tournament, and organizers stay logged in throughout.

More consistent form styling across the app

Input fields, dropdowns and checkboxes now share a single, consistent style site-wide for a cleaner, more uniform look.

Find and register any player already in the system

The player directory is now shared: you can search for, view and register any player who already exists, instead of hitting a dead-end when another organizer entered them first. Editing a player's details still stays restricted to whoever created the record.

Edit players directly from Players management

Admins can now edit a player's core details — including linking national-federation and FIDE IDs — straight from the Players management list, with full validation.

Dismiss recent players from 'My Players'

The profile's 'My Players' section now shows your recent players too, and lets you dismiss ones you don't manage. A dismissed player stays hidden — in both your profile and the registration finder — until they register again.

Clearer 'Edit player info' form

The per-tournament player override form has been redesigned to be input-first: each field is prefilled with the current value, and a changed field is highlighted with a 'Modified' badge and a one-click reset to the original. Linked national and FIDE ID fields now have clearly visible, evenly sized inputs.

Cockpit-added players no longer appear in 'My Players'

Players you add while managing a tournament through the cockpit — or import from a crosstable — no longer show up in your personal 'My Players' list.

Re-register a player already entered by someone else

When you register a player during an open check-in window who is already actively registered by a different user, the registration now transfers to you and the player is checked in, instead of hitting a dead-end 'already registered' error. Payment, pairing and scoring state are preserved and the change is recorded in the audit log.

Record unrated results

Results can now be marked as unrated, so games that shouldn't count toward ratings are handled correctly.

Light/dark theme toggle for presenter mode

The full-screen projector view now has a light/dark theme toggle, so you can match the room's lighting.

One column chooser now drives the players table, sort and export

On the individual players tab, the column chooser now controls both what you see on screen and what's exported, and feeds a client-side sort dropdown that reorders rows instantly. New Club Number and Club Name columns are available (populated for Belgian players today), alongside optional gender, birth year, national ID, FIDE ID and withdrawn columns.

Linking a national ID now fills in FIDE ID and player details

When you link a player's national federation ID, their FIDE ID and demographic details (such as gender and birth year) are now pulled in automatically.

Birthdate-mismatch warning now shown in team registration

The warning that flags a difference between an entered birthdate and the federation's records now appears in the team registration flow too, not just individual registration.

Federation labels now shown in your language

Federation names and labels are now translated per locale, so they display in your selected language.

Cleaner per-round controls for round-robin tournaments

The per-round 'generate pairings' button is now hidden for round-robin events, where all rounds are generated together — removing a control that didn't apply.

Affiliated players now show their club after registration

Players registered by FIDE ID — including those already in the system from an earlier import — now have their national federation linked automatically, so their club appears in the cockpit instead of showing blank. Existing affected players have been backfilled.

Linked national and FIDE IDs now stay visible when editing a player

The Edit Player Info modal previously hid an official ID once it was linked, which could look like the ID was missing. Linked national and FIDE IDs now stay visible as clickable links to the federation fiche and FIDE profile, and the 'Check' lookup only appears for federations Chesstide can look up.

Swap mode no longer turns on by default in pairings

The pairings view no longer auto-enables swap mode for manual or 'Other' pairing systems. It now stays off by default everywhere; enable it with the existing toggle when you need it.

Action buttons no longer collide with long page titles

On the Manage Tournament and tournament detail pages, a long tournament name no longer overflows into the action buttons — the buttons now wrap onto their own row below the title.

Pairings toolbar no longer jumps around

The buttons in the pairings toolbar now stay in stable rows instead of shifting position as the toolbar wraps on narrower screens.

Editing a player keeps your place in the list

Saving an edited player, or refreshing their data from the federation, no longer scrolls the players list back to the top.

Black-player marker now visible in dark mode

In the presenter view's dark theme, the dot indicating the player with the black pieces is now clearly visible.

Correct round dates in rating report exports

When a round's games were entered with mixed or missing dates, the exported rating report could pick the wrong date for the round. Each round's date is now chosen reliably from the games actually played.

Pin a team to a fixed table

Teams can now be pinned to a specific board/table for pairings, the same way individual players can. Set it from the new 'Fixed table' action in the players tab; a board badge shows the pinned position.

Warning when handicap tournaments aren't rating-eligible

Enabling handicap on a tournament marked for FIDE or national rating now shows a warning that handicap time controls generally aren't rating-eligible. It's informational only and doesn't block saving.

Player registration is easier to use on phones

The player registration flow has been reworked for narrow screens: tabs, search and ID-lookup controls, and form fields now fit without horizontal clipping or zoom-on-focus, with larger tap targets, and the page scrolls to results and the selected player automatically. Team registration gets the same improvements.

Standings flagged as out of date after any ranking setting change

Standings are now marked stale whenever a ranking-affecting setting changes — tie-break order, board tie-breaks, team scoring system, categories, or fictitious ratings — through any path, even if no new results were entered. Recalculate to refresh them.

Clearer label for national IDs without a federation name

When a federation has no specific name, a player's national ID now shows a 'National ID' label qualified by country (for example 'National ID (FR)') instead of a bare country code, so different countries' IDs stay distinguishable.

No flash of completed boards on the pairings screen

With 'Show only remaining' turned on, completed boards no longer briefly appear when the pairings page loads or reloads — they're now hidden before the page first paints.

Clearer "not authorized" messages

When an action is blocked because you don't have permission, the message again names what you were trying to reach — a team, tournament, organisation, or registration — instead of a generic "Unauthorized".

Round-robin pairings for team tournaments

Team events can now be paired as a round-robin (all-play-all), with the same options as individual round-robins — including multiple games per pairing and an optional manual ordering step. Start it from 'Generate All Rounds' on a team tournament.

Regenerate the boards of a team match

Arbiters can now refill a team match's boards (or a whole round's) from the current line-up without losing results already entered — useful after a late line-up change, an absence, or a reserve swap. New 'Regenerate boards' buttons appear per match and per round.

Team and board tie-breaks no longer come back as zero

Team tournaments with an under-rostered team — fewer players than the boards being played — could show every team and board tie-break as 0.00. Sonneborn-Berger and the board tie-breaks now compute correctly in these cases; recalculate standings to refresh an affected event.

Status and payment badges stay in sync across screen sizes

After editing a registration's status or payment badge in the cockpit, switching between the mobile and desktop layouts (for example by resizing the window) could briefly show a stale value. Both layouts now update together.

More player detail columns in standings

Standings tables (public and cockpit) can now show Title, Gender, Birth year, FIDE ID, and National ID as optional columns, picked from the column chooser. They appear only where a row maps to a single player; off by default.

Presenter mode now supports team tournaments

The full-screen projector view works for team events too, showing one compact row per team match (home — score — away, plus byes) and cycling through them automatically like the individual view.

Prompt for a full birthdate when FIDE registration needs one

On FIDE-homologated tournaments, players without a FIDE ID who only have a birth year (no full date of birth) are now flagged with an amber badge in the players tab and on the FIDE export page, so arbiters can collect the missing date before registering them.

Projector display follows the latest published round

Left unattended, the presenter view now automatically advances to the newest published round as the arbiter publishes it — no reload needed. Pinning a specific round with the round selector still holds that round.

Warning when a configured tie-break can't be calculated

If the tie-break engine is unavailable when standings are computed, a configured tie-break could silently fall back to zero and stop breaking ties. The standings page now shows a clear warning naming the affected tie-break(s) so you can restore the engine and recalculate.

Tournaments can no longer be saved ending before they start

Editing a tournament now rejects an end date earlier than the start date with a clear message, and country codes are stored consistently so they no longer slip past search and federation lookups.

FIDE export no longer double-reports catch-up games

When a postponed or late-played game was exported in a later batch, it could be reported to FIDE twice. The team and individual TRF exports now attribute each game to its export and emit catch-up games at the correct grain, so re-exporting never duplicates or drops them.

Unrated players no longer treated as 0-rated

A federation rating of 0 (the 'unrated' convention) could leak in as a genuine 0 Elo, affecting pairings, acceleration, and ordering. Such values are now normalised to unrated everywhere they're read.

Safer CSV exports

Player, standings, cross-table, and SWAR CSV exports now neutralise cell values that spreadsheet apps could interpret as formulas, protecting against 'CSV formula injection' from user-entered names and other free-text fields. Numbers, ratings, and IDs are unaffected.

Confirmation messages on tournament management pages

Publishing, cancelling, completing, copying, editing, or deleting a tournament now shows the success banner on the Manage and My Tournaments pages, which previously stayed silent after these actions.

Projector mode for live pairings

A new full-screen presenter view turns the pairings page into an unattended projector display: it fills the screen with the round's boards in readable columns and automatically cycles through them on a timer, with a countdown ring showing when the next page is due. Open it from the new 'Presenter mode' button on a pairings page; results entered during the round refresh automatically. (Individual tournaments for now.)

Recalculate standings on demand

Arbiters can now force a standings recompute at any time from a Recalculate button in the standings toolbar — previously it was only reachable from the 'standings out of date' warning. A failed recalculation now reports an error instead of silently looking like success.

Standings count results from the round in progress

Standings now include results already entered for the current, in-progress round instead of waiting until the round is fully completed — so live rankings and a manual recalculation reflect the latest results.

Edit extra points from the player menu

Manual extra-points editing has moved into each player's ⋮ context menu via an 'Edit Extra Points' action that opens a modal, consistent with the other per-player actions. The amber +X.X badge remains as a read-only indicator.

Clearer screen reader support for detail pop-ups

The detail and tie-break pop-ups (on pairings, standings, the cross-table, and player lists) now announce a descriptive name to screen readers and correctly report their open/closed state, making them easier to use with assistive technology.

Postponed team matches included in the FIDE export

Team matches played in an earlier round but not yet exported (for example a postponed match) are now folded into the FIDE TRF team export, matching how individual tournaments already handle catch-up games.

No more random sign-outs during busy events

Players were occasionally logged out mid-session — most often during login and registration surges at the start of a tournament. The underlying server-side session handling has been fixed so one person signing in no longer disturbs other users' sessions.

Helpful message when no teams are checked in

Trying to generate team pairings with no checked-in teams now shows a clear, actionable message instead of a raw internal error, matching the individual-tournament behaviour.

See how a player's tie-breaks were calculated

A new cockpit page breaks down how each of a player's sum-based tie-breaks (Buchholz, Cut-1, Median, Sonneborn-Berger, Progressive) was computed — round by round, including dropped rounds and FIDE adjustments for unplayed games. Open it from the 'see full calculation' link in the standings popover or by clicking a tie-break cell in the standings table.

Tie-breaks no longer break when a future round is published early

If a later round had already been published and assigned a player a full-point pairing-allocated bye, the standings tie-breaks for the current round could silently fail and show as zero. Standings now compute correctly in this situation.

Direct Encounter now breaks ties within a smaller group

When Direct Encounter is used as a tie-break, it now correctly settles a tie that only emerges after an earlier tie-break (such as Number of Wins) narrows the tied players down to a pair who played each other — the head-to-head winner is now ranked ahead. This previously failed in individual, team, and board standings.

Printable tournament poster with QR code

The cockpit now generates a printable poster for each tournament, with the event details and a QR code linking to the public page — handy for taping up at the playing hall or sharing on social media.

Six more FIDE tie-breaks available

APRO (Average Performance Rating of Opponents), APPO (Average Perfect Performance of Opponents), Score-Strength Combination, and the four Extended Sonneborn-Berger team-Swiss variants are now selectable in the tie-break picker, all computed by the official TieBreakServer engine.

Secondary tie-break list to break remaining ties

A second 'break-ties only' list can be configured alongside the primary tie-breaks — it applies only when the primary list still leaves teams or players tied, so columns stay clean on screen but rankings get fully resolved. The setting is written into the FIDE TRF-2026 record 202 for downstream tools.

Permanently delete a tournament

Tournament creators and global admins can now permanently delete their own tournaments, including cancelled ones that used to clutter the listings. Other roles still can't delete; a confirmation dialog prevents accidents.

Customisable columns on standings and participants

Standings and participants pages now have a column chooser — hide tie-break, rating, federation, or any other column you don't need. The selection is remembered in your browser and also honoured by the CSV export.

Sortable participant columns

Every column on the participants page is now sortable — click a header to sort, click again to reverse, click a third time to clear. The sort survives pagination, so you can scan a 200-player field without losing your place.

Player popover on public pairings

Clicking a player name on the public pairings page now opens a popover with their federation, rating, and tournament history — the same shortcut already available on the standings page.

Team tournament import from a TRF file

The TRF import action now supports team tournaments — players, teams, board rosters, registrations, rounds, pairings, results, arbiters, forbidden-pairing groups, and tie-breaks are all created from the file in one step.

All FIDE tie-breaks now computed by the TieBreakServer engine

Buchholz family, Sonneborn-Berger, Koya, ARO, AROC, TPR, Progressive Score, Wins, Direct Encounter, and the team-level Direct Encounter and board-standings variants are now computed by the official FIDE TieBreakServer rather than in-house code. Results align with FIDE TBR 03/2026 — including the §6.2 recursive Direct Encounter rule that's hard to get right by hand.

TRF export pre-selects all players

The TRF export dialog used to start with no players selected. It now pre-selects every player by default so the common 'export everyone' flow is one click.

Clearer SWAR import warnings

SWAR import warnings (missing FIDE IDs, ambiguous players, unknown federations, etc.) now display in a dedicated translated panel above the imported tournament, with duplicate warnings collapsed and a sensible cap so a problem file doesn't flood the page.

Clearer TRF import warnings

TRF import warnings are now translated, grouped by category, and deduplicated when the same message would otherwise repeat many times — keeping the post-import banner readable on large files.

Same tie-break can now appear twice in a cascade

FIDE TBR 03/2026 §5 allows Direct Encounter and Extended Direct Encounter to repeat in the same cascade (for example, 'Points, DE, Buchholz, DE'). The configuration form accepted duplicate entries before but silently collapsed them when computing standings; the second occurrence now correctly re-applies inside whatever sub-group the intermediate criteria narrowed down.

Black games played and won no longer count forfeits

FIDE TBR §11.3 defines these tie-breaks as 'games actually played with the Black pieces' — forfeit wins/losses shouldn't count. The previous in-house calculator did count them; TieBreakServer's spec-conformant reading is now used, so values may shift for tournaments with forfeits.

Baku team-Swiss scoring preserved on TRF export

Tournaments configured with the Baku team-Swiss scoring system used to silently fall back to match points on TRF export, dropping the configured game-points scoring. The export now respects the configured scoring.

Team result auto-advance skips collapsed matches

When entering team results, the keyboard auto-advance to the next pairing used to stop working once an earlier match had been collapsed in the UI. The auto-advance now correctly skips collapsed matches and lands on the next visible board, so result entry stays keyboard-friendly down the round.

More FIDE tie-breaks: Fore Buchholz, forfeits-as-played, Rounds Elected to Play

Three additional FIDE tie-breaks are now available in the tie-break configuration: Fore Buchholz, Buchholz counting forfeits as played, and Rounds Elected to Play. They are computed by the official TieBreakServer engine for FIDE-accurate results, and Black games played/won now report their standard FIDE codes.

Import a tournament from a TRF file

A new "Import TRF" action creates a fully-populated individual tournament from a FIDE TRF file — players, registrations, rounds, pairings and results, arbiters, forbidden-pairing groups, tie-breaks, and pairing settings are all brought in. Team tournaments aren't supported yet.

TRF export for team tournaments

The TRF export page is now available on team tournaments, producing a FIDE-format team file with full team rosters and match results, not just individual events.

Round-robin Buchholz warning

When a round-robin tournament is configured with a Buchholz-family tie-break — which FIDE rules discourage for round-robins — the cockpit now shows an amber warning. It's only a heads-up; the tie-break is still calculated and the form still saves.

Reactivate a cancelled team registration

Re-registering a team whose previous registration was cancelled now reactivates the existing entry instead of failing. If some of the team's players have since moved to other teams, the wizard lists who was removed so you can add replacements.

TRF exports now use the modern FIDE TRF-2026 format

All TRF files ChessTide produces now follow the latest FIDE TRF-2026 specification, with richer per-round bye and tournament-type information for better compatibility with current FIDE tooling.

Category filter is now a dropdown on standings

The category navigation on public and cockpit standings is now a dropdown instead of a horizontal tab strip, giving a better experience on mobile and on tournaments with many age categories.

Standings re-rank when you change the tie-break order

Editing the tie-break configuration saved the new order but left the displayed standings ranked by the old one, so the ranking could contradict the configured priority. Standings are now recomputed automatically whenever the tie-break order changes.

Pairing no longer falls back when a player has a pairing-allocated bye

A player granted a pairing-allocated bye had their score under-counted in the TRF file, which the pairing engine rejected — forcing a fallback to a less-strict pairing algorithm. The bye is now scored as a full point so pairing runs normally.

Standings details popover stays on screen

The player/team popover on standings could open downward and run off the bottom of the screen once its round history loaded. It now reserves the right amount of space up front and flips above the row when needed.

Accurate performance ratings against unrated players

Players stored as unrated (rating 0) were treated as genuine 0-Elo opponents, which could crush performance-rating estimates — a player who swept rated opponents could show an absurdly low TPR. Unrated players are now handled correctly, giving realistic performance and average-opponent ratings.

FIDE export header uses the official tournament dates

On a full TRF export, the start and end dates in the FIDE header are now taken from the tournament's scheduled start and end dates rather than from when individual rounds happened to be played. Partial-range exports still bracket exactly the rounds included in the file.

TRF export for non-FIDE tournaments and an "All rounds" option

The TRF export page is now available on individual tournaments that aren't FIDE-rated, so you can produce a TRF file for any external tournament program. An "All rounds" entry has also been added that bundles rounds 1..N in a single file, regardless of how the FIDE event-code ranges are configured.

Completed tournaments stay publicly viewable

Tournament detail, standings, cross-table, and pairings pages used to return 404 for tournaments marked as completed, and the "past" tab on the home and tournament listings hid them entirely — only the API still served them. Finished events are now publicly viewable again across the SSR site, the listings, the public REST endpoint, and the sitemap.

Draft and cancelled tournaments no longer leak participants or statistics

The /participants and /statistics pages skipped the visibility check applied to the other public tournament pages, so an anonymous visitor with a direct link could see the participant list and statistics of a draft or cancelled event. Both pages now respect the same visibility gate as standings, pairings, and cross-table.

Signing out no longer disconnects your other devices

The web logout endpoint was calling Supabase without restricting the scope, which revoked every refresh token in the account family and silently signed out every other browser and tab. Logout now affects only the current session, so other devices stay signed in.

Buchholz tiebreak now follows FIDE 03/2026 rules

Buchholz and Sonneborn-Berger now cap the dummy opponent's score per FIDE 03/2026 Article 16.4 — a half-point bye, withdrawal, or forfeit no longer inflates the tiebreak above what the rule allows. Standings of tournaments with unplayed rounds may rank differently than before.

Staying signed in for the full session

A background refresh-token timer in our auth library was silently rotating tokens on the server, so the next browser request would fail with 'Invalid Refresh Token' and sign the user out around an hour after each login. The background timer is now disabled; sessions persist as expected.

Manual pairings: pair and unpair from the cockpit

Rounds set to manual pairing now show a 'Players to pair' (or 'Teams to pair') roster sorted by score, with a click-two-players flow to create pairings, plus an unpair button next to swap-colors on each board. Works for both individual and team tournaments.

Multi-game round-robin (N-fold)

Round-robin tournaments can now be configured with multiple games per pairing (1–10) and a 'cyclic' or 'grouped' distribution. Cyclic plays each game across full Berger cycles with alternating colors; grouped plays each pair's games back-to-back as a mini-match. SWAR imports detect the right distribution automatically.

Self-healing bye and absence lists

Editing a player whose stored bye or absence rounds fell outside the current round count — after the schedule was shortened, the bye cap lowered, or the bye-request feature toggled off — used to fail with a validation error. Now only newly-introduced entries are validated; legacy entries are grandfathered, and the absent/bye lists are trimmed automatically the next time the tournament is saved.

FIDE export defaults to the first range with pending games

The FIDE rating export dialog now annotates each event code with a 'Sent' or 'Pending' badge and pre-selects the first range that still has played-but-unexported games, so you don't have to scan for what's left to submit.

Faster tournament detail page

The check-in button on the public tournament page no longer fetches the full registration list just to decide whether to show itself. A lighter existence check is used instead, noticeably speeding up the page for tournaments with many registrations.

Creating a tournament with an unusual pairing system

Setting the pairing system to 'Other' on the tournament form used to crash the round-creation step. 'Other' is now mapped to 'manual' on rounds, and case/whitespace variants (e.g. 'Swiss' vs 'swiss') are normalized consistently across the app.

Re-importing SWAR tournaments without duplicate-key errors

Re-importing a SWAR file containing players who had previously been inserted without a FIDE ID used to fail with a duplicate-key error. The importer now matches existing players by name and birth date when no FIDE ID is provided.

Forbidden pairings

Organizers can now define groups of players who must never be paired together (rotating teams, family members, etc.). The constraint is enforced by the pairing engine, and when the engine has to fall back to a less-strict pass any forced violations are surfaced as warnings on the pairings page.

Self check-in for already-registered players

Players who are already registered for a tournament now see a check-in proposal banner during the on-site confirmation window, so they can confirm attendance themselves instead of waiting for an arbiter to mark them present.

Richer player popover on standings

Clicking a player name in the standings now opens an expanded popover with federation info and additional tournament details — useful when arbiters and spectators want context on a particular result.

"After Round N" badge on standings

Public and cockpit standings pages now display a badge beside the subtitle showing how many rounds have been completed, so it's clear at a glance which round the standings reflect.

Simpler withdrawal model in the cockpit

Withdrawal is no longer a separate state on a player record — a withdrawn player is now simply absent for the remaining rounds. Redundant withdrawal-specific UI in the cockpit has been removed, leaving a single, clearer way to handle players who stop participating partway through a tournament.

Empty date and time fields are now visually distinct

Date and datetime fields throughout the app (tournament dates, check-in window, round times, player birth dates, filters) now show their format hint in muted gray when empty, so it's obvious which optional fields you haven't filled. Partially-typed datetime fields keep their digits dark and gain a red outline to flag that something is still missing.

Club number column on the participants list

The participants list now includes a club number column and lets you sort by it, making it easier to group or find players by their club affiliation.

More accurate rating estimate in mixed-rating events

The tournament performance rating now uses FIDE's published K-factor and the appropriate FIDE-vs-national basis when estimating a player's strength, giving better TPRs when FIDE-rated and nationally-rated players meet.

Faster standings on tournaments with many tied players

Tied-group tiebreak resolution now fetches the round data it needs once per call instead of repeatedly per tie group, noticeably speeding up standings on large events where many players share the same score.

Cleaner print sheets for in-progress rounds

The print pairings view now derives the per-player 'points before round' correctly even when the current round is still in draft, avoiding a stale or misleading points column on freshly-generated round sheets.

Registration is blocked after the tournament end date

It was previously possible to register for a tournament after its end date had passed. The system now rejects late registrations with a clear error.

Reliable tournament auto-completion

Tournaments occasionally stayed in 'in progress' past their end date if the auto-close job missed them. A stale-closer fallback now catches missed tournaments, and organizers can manually mark a tournament complete as a last resort.

French tiebreak terminology corrected

Several tiebreak labels in French were inaccurate or inconsistent with FIDE terminology, and one empty-state hint pointed users 'above' a list when it should have said 'below'. Both are now corrected.

Step through rounds with navigation arrows

The public and cockpit pairings pages now have previous/next arrows beside the round selector, so you can move through rounds one at a time without opening the dropdown.

PGN export: board ranges and a remembered selection

The PGN export dialog now accepts a board range like "1-16, 20, 22-24" as a shortcut for ticking games, and remembers which boards you exported per tournament so the same selection is pre-applied on the next round.

Cleaner tournament listing cards

The "View External Tournament" button no longer appears on announcement-only cards in the tournament listing. The external link is still available on the tournament's detail page.

Staying signed in across multiple tabs

Opening the same account in several browser tabs at once could trigger a security check that signed you out of every tab. Simultaneous session refreshes are now coordinated, so multiple tabs stay signed in.

Handicap tournaments

Organizers can now run handicap tournaments. A cockpit toggle enables the format and exposes the clock parameters (base white/black minutes, minutes per Elo bucket, maximum shift cap, unrated rating floor). Each player's adjusted thinking time appears as a small badge next to their name on the cockpit, public, and print pairings views, with an amber 'Handicap' chip on the public tournament page.

Choose which games to export to PGN

PGN export now opens a dialog listing the round's games so you can pick exactly which ones to export, with a select-all/none toggle and every game selected by default. Available from both the cockpit and public pairings views.

"Show only remaining" filter on cockpit pairings

A new toolbar toggle hides boards whose results are already in, so arbiters can focus on games still in progress during a round. The choice persists per tournament, and a board that gets a result after the filter is applied stays visible until you re-toggle or refresh, so the result can still be confirmed. Covers individual pairings, team matches, and the tiebreak layout.

Performance rating (TPR) always shown in standings

Standings tables now include a tournament performance rating column whenever the event has at least one rated player, even when TPR is not a configured tiebreak. Ranking still uses only the configured tiebreaks, so the displayed TPR never affects placement.

Per-board game date tucked behind a menu

The manual per-pairing game date (a FIDE edge case for postponed games) now sits behind a three-dot menu instead of an always-visible input, reducing clutter in the pairings table. The cell shows the date when set and offers 'Change game date' and 'Clear date'.

Editing absences after an earlier round is completed

Changing a player's absent or bye rounds no longer fails just because an earlier round has already been completed. Only the rounds you actually add or remove are checked against the completed-round rule.

Half-point bye granted after pairing now counts in standings

A requested half-point bye added after a round's pairings were generated now creates the matching pairing, so the bye point appears in standings and tiebreaks. Removing the bye again deletes it.

Active standings tab scrolled into view on mobile

On the public and cockpit standings pages, selecting a category or board tab from the middle of the scrollable strip on mobile now centers the active tab instead of leaving it off-screen.

Failed cockpit actions no longer leave partial changes

When a cockpit action across pairings, players, teams, the waiting list, or TRF export failed partway through, partial changes could still be saved. Failed actions are now fully rolled back.

Birthdate consistency checks against FIDE and national records

Chesstide now compares each player's date of birth against their linked FIDE and national federation records and flags disagreements in three places: a new global-admin report with one-click resolution, a badge next to player names on the cockpit players tab, and a soft warning during individual tournament registration. Detected mismatches are recorded for admin review.

Pairing points include acceleration extras

On printed pairing sheets and the public pairings page, the per-player points column now combines the score from prior rounds with the acceleration extras granted for the current round, so the value matches what was actually used to pair the round.

Sign-in no longer logs out unrelated users

A login, registration, or password reset on one device could silently revoke other users' refresh tokens across all of their devices, surfacing later as 'session expired' on the next page load. Sign-out now affects only the current session.

Print button on cockpit print pages fully clickable

The fixed print button on cockpit print pages was only clickable on its leftmost few pixels because the page header was painting over it. Clicks now register across the whole button.

Public pairings page opens on the live round

On a tournament's public pairings page, the default-round selector now picks the earliest published round still being played, so spectators land on the in-progress round instead of round 1. The selector and each option also show the round's scheduled date and time.

Toggling withdrawal updates only the affected row

Switching a player between active and withdrawn in the cockpit players page no longer re-renders the full list. The single row, attendance badge, team title, and active/withdrawn counts swap in place for a smoother check-in flow.

Much faster standings recalc on large tournaments

Tournament-wide score lookups used by Buchholz, Sonneborn-Berger, and Koya are now computed once per recalc instead of once per player. On a 500-player, 11-round, 6-tiebreak event this drops the standings refresh from around 8 seconds to under one. Team board standings get the same speedup.

Unique ranks in crosstable for tied players

When two or more players share a final standings rank, the crosstable (and its CSV export) now assigns them sequential, unique row numbers using TPN as a final tiebreaker. Opponent cell references like '25 W 1' are now unambiguous, and team grids get the same fix using team id.

Empty fields blocked when creating organizations and players

Submitting an organization or player creation form with an empty name, gender, or date of birth is now rejected with a clear error and the form re-rendered, instead of silently creating a blank-name record or showing a generic error page.

Session refresh more reliably preserves login

Improved how the app delivers refreshed login cookies after an automatic session refresh. Previously, due to a FastAPI internal quirk, the refresh ran on the server but the new cookies never reached the browser, which could contribute to premature logouts mid-session.

Print pairing sheets for individual tournaments

Two new print views — per-board (wall-poster format) and alphabetical-by-player — alongside the existing result sheets. The alphabetical sheet helps players in large fields find their pairing by name; sort handles accented and non-Latin names correctly.

Koya tiebreak (FIDE TBR 03/2026 §9.2)

Sum of points scored against opponents finishing with at least a configurable percentage of the maximum possible score. Forfeit results count when the opponent qualifies; tiebreak rounds are excluded from the threshold calculation.

Download CSV from crosstable

Adds a Download CSV button to both the cockpit results tab and the public cross-table page. Header labels and color codes (W/B, B/N, W/Z) follow the viewer's language, and team views export home/away markers.

One-click payment toggle in the cockpit

Cockpit registrations now show a 44×44 €-in-circle button next to paid/unpaid rows so admins can flip payment status in a single tap during check-in. The pencil + dropdown remain for partial, waived, and refunded states.

QR codes on printable pages link to the live page

Pairings and standings print pages now show a QR code in the header. Scanning it opens the matching public live page, so spectators viewing a wall poster can follow updates from their phone.

Mobile-responsive cockpit pairings page

Below 1024 px the cockpit pairings page renders as stacked cards (individual, team, and tiebreak), with both player names visible without horizontal scroll and all result-entry buttons meeting the 44×44 px touch target. The desktop table is preserved on tablets and larger.

FIDE and national IDs on My Registrations cards

Individual registration cards now show the player's host-country federation id and FIDE id under their name, so participants can confirm at a glance that the right ids are on file.

Cumulative score on individual print pairings

The three cockpit individual print views (boards, alphabetical, result sheets) now show each player's cumulative score from prior completed rounds, so players can locate themselves on the wall sheet by their running total.

Fixed-board pin honored beyond the round's board count

A FIXED_BOARD constraint targeting a board higher than the round's pairing count (e.g. board 30 in a 9-board round, for an accessibility-adapted physical board) is now applied literally instead of being silently dropped.

Direct encounter hidden when tied players never met

When tied players have not all played each other, the Direct Encounter column now renders as `-` and falls through to the next tiebreak, instead of misleadingly showing 0 for everyone (per FIDE 13.13.5).

Final standings rank in TRF (FIDE) export

Positions 86–89 of the 001 player line now carry the final standings rank with tiebreaks applied, as the TRF16 spec requires. The export previously duplicated the starting rank there, which made rating reports inconsistent.

Excluded players' pairings stamped to prevent FIDE catch-up bleed

Pairings involving excluded players (e.g. players without a FIDE id, default-deselected) are now marked as exported so they do not resurface as false catch-up entries in the next FIDE event code's TRF.

Site chrome removed from prizes print page

The cockpit prizes print page no longer renders the global header, navigation, footer, or cookie banner — matching the other print views and producing clean prize-list printouts.

Public REST API for tournament data

Public endpoints now expose tournament pairings, players, and live state, so federations and partner sites can pull live tournament data programmatically instead of scraping pages.

API documentation page in the help menu

Users with API access now see an API Docs link in the help menu that renders the full reference inside the app, with no need to track down external documentation.

Mobile-responsive cockpit players page

The cockpit players tab now adapts to phone-sized screens with stacked card layouts instead of a horizontally-scrolling table, making mid-tournament check-in and edits practical from a phone.

Mobile-responsive public pairings page

The public pairings page now uses a card layout on phones so spectators and players can read board pairings without horizontal scrolling.

Mobile-friendly My Registrations cards

The My Registrations page now uses a responsive card layout so registration details, status, and actions are readable on phones.

44px minimum touch targets on icon buttons

Icon-only buttons across the app — including TPN editor controls and player-finder edit actions — now meet the 44px touch-target spec, so taps on phones land reliably.

Cockpit status badge updates after per-player check-in toggle

Toggling a single player's check-in in the cockpit now refreshes the tournament status badge straight away instead of waiting for a page reload.

Requested byes remain visible after player withdrawal

When a player is withdrawn after requesting a bye, their requested-bye entries no longer disappear from the cockpit, preserving the audit trail of what was requested.

Buchholz cut variants render distinctly

Buchholz-cut-1, Buchholz-cut-2 and similar variants now appear as separate columns in the tiebreak settings and standings instead of collapsing into a single ambiguous label.

Progressive tiebreak treats withdrawal rounds correctly

The Progressive (Sonneborn-Berger-style cumulative) tiebreak now records withdrawal rounds as zero-point cumulative entries, so withdrawn players' progressive scores are calculated consistently with the FIDE handling for forfeit rounds.

Auto check-in when registering during open window

Players who register while the check-in window is open now go straight to CHECKED_IN, skipping the redundant manual confirmation step. Audit log records the implicit transition.

Re-registering after cancellation reactivates the original entry

Cancelled registrations are reactivated in place when the same player re-registers, instead of failing on the duplicate-entry constraint. Stale per-tournament data (byes, absences, payment notes, TPN, acceleration history) is reset.

No more confirm popup for publish and complete round

Removed the confirmation dialogs before publishing pairings or completing a round — both actions are reversible (unpublish, revert), so the extra click was friction without value.

Card and heading consistency across pages

Organisation, profile, legal, guide and what's-new cards now match the rest of the platform with consistent shadow elevation and borders. Page titles use responsive sizing on mobile so they no longer overflow on narrow phones.

Requested-bye score shown next to BYE label

The crosstable and standings player card now distinguish requested byes (BYE 1, BYE ½, BYE 0) from pairing byes (plain BYE), so a half-point bye no longer looks identical to a zero-point absence.

Buchholz tiebreak corrected for forfeits and tiebreak rounds

Forfeit wins and pairing-allocated byes are no longer treated as voluntary unplayed rounds in Buchholz cut-1, withdrawals now contribute a dummy opponent, and tiebreak playoff rounds are excluded from regular standings calculations.

SWAR import correctly classifies pairing vs requested byes

Imports now consult AbsentRondes to distinguish player-requested byes from pairing-engine assignments, and bye-request configuration (allowed, points, max count, excluded rounds) is derived from SWAR fields. Future requested byes also materialise as half-point pairings so standings and Buchholz are correct.

Tournament listing pagination

The home page now honours ?page= and ?limit= query params, so clicking page 2 or 3 in the tournament listing actually loads the next page instead of reloading page 1.

Special results dropdown updates after selection

Picking a special result (e.g. forfeit) in the cockpit result editor now correctly updates the dropdown label instead of keeping the chevron showing.

Prize calculation page

Compute and display awarded amounts from the configured prize structure and current standings, applying place / shared / Hort splits and the cumulative rule. Team tournaments can also configure per-board prize lists alongside general and per-category lists.

Printable result sheets for individual tournaments

From the cockpit pairings page, organisers can now open a print-friendly view that renders one signed result sheet per pairing — mirroring the existing 'Print Boards' feature for team tournaments.

Reserve alignment mode for team tournaments

Choose how a reserve player slots into the lineup when a higher-board teammate is benched: slide every player up (default) or fill the benched player's exact board.

Waiting list section on participants page

Waitlisted registrations now render in their own dedicated section below the main participants list, with a matching statistics card so totals reconcile at a glance.

Swiss pairing fallback

When bbpPairings cannot find a valid Swiss pairing, the round now falls back to a deterministic last-resort algorithm instead of failing — and a persistent warning banner flags rounds where the fallback was used.

Payment column hidden for free tournaments

Payment column, badges, filter, and bulk payment actions are now hidden across cockpit and public participants pages when the tournament has no entry fee.

Baku acceleration for players added mid-tournament

Players who joined after round 1 used to receive no acceleration virtual points even when their seeding placed them in Group A. The acceleration history is now backfilled and recomputed before each round.

National rating preserved for players without FIDE rating

Players added by club who only have a national federation rating no longer end up with rating '—' in the cockpit — their national rating is now persisted correctly.

Confirmation dialogs restored on cockpit forms

Federation-refresh and merge-players forms used inline confirmation handlers that were silently dropped by the Content Security Policy. The prompts now appear reliably.

Withdrawn players counted on tournament listings

Withdrawn registrations are now included in the 'registered: N players/teams' count on tournament listings, alongside pending, confirmed and checked-in registrations.

Bulk check-in flips team member flags

In team tournaments, 'Check-in All' / 'Uncheck-in All' now also updates the per-board check-in flags, so the badge and per-board toggles reflect the bulk action.

Pairing byes vs requested byes

Players with a requested bye no longer appear twice on pairings pages. Pairing byes (odd-player-out) now display the awarded points from the tournament configuration, and the public pairings page now shows an absent-players section.

Player self check-in for individual tournaments

Registered players can now check themselves in — and undo — from a dedicated check-in page during the active check-in window.

Structured prize configuration

Organisers can define per-place prize amounts for the overall standings and each category, with split method (Place / Shared / Hort) and a cumulative flag. Public detail pages render the structure.

Publish all rounds at once in round-robin tournaments

In round-robin, the Publish action now releases every draft round in one click since the full schedule is generated upfront.

Localised home-screen install

The installable PWA now picks up the right name and labels in English, French and Dutch.

Quicker bye-request workflow

Round-absence now cycles Present → Bye Request → Absent so the more common scored bye is one click away, and Bye R<rounds> badges now sit next to Absent in the Players tab.

Faster team-tournament pairings

Team rating lookups are batched into a single query, removing per-team round-trips during pairing generation.

Accessibility and performance polish

Skip-to-main link, keyboard-focusable language switcher, screen-reader friendly error pages, deferred scripts and explicit image dimensions to reduce layout shift.

Check-in window times shown in your timezone

Cockpit check-in start/end fields now match the other datetime inputs and display in your local timezone.

Any integer Elo accepted in category rating inputs

Thresholds like 1801 or 2001 are now accepted in category and acceleration rating fields — no more 100-step rounding.

Bye request settings now save

The four bye-request configuration fields were silently dropped on save; they now persist correctly to the tournament.

Tournament types simplified

The tournament type list is now the canonical Open, Invitational and School. Legacy values (club, federation, championship) were migrated to Open.

TRF export honors per-tournament birth-date override

Birth-date overrides set on a tournament participant are now reflected in the exported TRF file, alongside the existing title/gender/country/name overrides.

Region-tagged language codes no longer crash

Visiting a page with ?lang=en-US (or similar) no longer crashes country dropdowns; the middleware now normalises to the supported primary subtag.

Pairing generation across check-in resets

Stale tournament pairing numbers are now cleared across registration statuses, so re-pairing after a multi-round check-in reset no longer aborts on a unique-constraint violation.

Participation-mode switch is admin-only and confirmed

Switching a tournament between team and individual modes is now restricted to global admins and prompts for confirmation before deleting registrations.

Self check-in respects privacy

Cross-user check-in attempts now return a generic error instead of revealing details about the target registration.

New Chesstide branding

Refreshed logo, favicons, og:image and PWA manifest, giving Chesstide a consistent look across browsers, mobile home screens and link previews.

Export tournaments to SWAR

Individual tournaments can now be exported as a SWAR-compatible CSV ZIP, making it easy for Belgian organizers to keep SWAR in sync with Chesstide.

Refresh player info from federation data

From the cockpit players page, staff can bulk-refresh or per-player refresh date of birth, gender, country and FIDE ID from the latest federation and FIDE data.

Better birth dates for Belgian players

Newly-created Belgian players now pick up their birth year from the federation directly, instead of falling through to a 1900 placeholder.

Gender labels in edit-player modal

The gender select in the cockpit edit-player modal now shows translated labels instead of raw translation keys.

Link federation and FIDE IDs from the cockpit

Tournament staff can now link a player's national federation and FIDE ID directly from the cockpit, with automatic FIDE profile lookup as a fallback when an ID is missing.

Haley acceleration for Swiss pairings

Swiss tournaments now support the Haley acceleration system in addition to Baku and manual acceleration.

Richer public participants page

The public participants list now supports sorting and category filtering, shows each player's club, and displays the FIDE federation instead of nationality.

Smarter player and registration search

Player and registration searches are now scoped to the tournament's country federation, so you see the right results for local tournaments.

Faster standings calculation

Tiebreak calculations (Buchholz, Sonneborn-Berger, etc.) are now significantly faster, especially on large tournaments.

Finer youth age categories in statistics

Tournament statistics now break down youth participants into more detailed age groups.

Keyboard navigation in staff search

Navigate the staff search dropdown in the cockpit using the keyboard.

Pairings refuse invalid generation

Pairings generation is now blocked when every TPN holder is absent, and late check-ins after round 4 are correctly assigned a TPN.

Cockpit staff search selection

Clicking a staff search result now correctly selects that person.

Profile refresh after linking chess account

The profile page now reloads properly after linking a chess profile, so the updated data is visible immediately.

Withdrawn participants counted correctly

Withdrawn players are now treated as registered in tournament statistics and the active filter.

Standings respect empty tiebreak config

When no tiebreaks are configured, standings no longer silently apply defaults.

Tournament duplication copies all settings

Duplicating a tournament now correctly copies all execution config fields, not just a subset.

Profile linking forms on production

Resolved an issue that prevented profile link and claim forms from submitting in production.

Categories and ranking

Tournaments now support categories with separate rankings, letting organizers group players by age, rating, or custom criteria.

Bye request support

Players can now request a bye (planned absence) and receive configurable points for that round.

My Tournaments filtering

The My Tournaments page now supports filtering by status and date, plus back navigation for easier browsing.

Getting Started Guide

A step-by-step guide to help new organizers get started with Chesstide.

Keyboard shortcuts for results

Use keyboard shortcuts to quickly encode game results in individual tournaments.

What's New page

A changelog page accessible from the help menu so users can discover recent changes.

Accelerated pairings

Tournaments now support Baku and manual acceleration systems for pairings.

Correct Buchholz and SB tiebreaks

Tiebreak calculations now follow FIDE Article 16 rules for unplayed games, fixing incorrect standings in some cases.