How do I find great chess tournaments?
How do I find great chess tournaments?
On Chess England, Chess Results, FIDE and the ECF Calendar!
A question I am frequently asked is “how do I find great chess tournaments to play in?”
Assuming that you don’t already have the website for a great tournament, e.g. Golders Green (www.goldersgreenchess.blogspot.com P.S. check out the links on the right hand side when viewing on a computer), there are four good ways you can search for chess events that I recommend. Note that none of them capture every single chess event out there. That would be too easy.
If you are looking for my chess events (including events my team and I are arbiting at like Battersea Blitz, Cook for Good Charity FIDE Rapid, Northampton and Swindon), check the chessengland.com calendar. You can see what is coming up by date, and add the events to your own Google Calendar.
Please expand each entry to find the link to the entry form and the tournament web page if there is one. If an event is missing let me know!
If you are looking for unusual events, live events, results for tournaments, pairings, check Chess Results and filter for ENG - https://chess-results.com/fed.aspx?lan=1&fed=ENG - like this;
You will see that the most recently updated events float to the top of this search. This is because all arbiters who use Swiss Manager to run their tournaments usually upload all their events to CR, usually live and sometimes in advance of tournaments to publicise them. It is a good place to look to check results, pairings, plus odd events that haven’t made it to any other calendar!
If you are looking for anything FIDE rated in England, check the FIDE list of registered events coming up - https://ratings.fide.com/rated_tournaments.phtml?country=ENG
This will be in strictly date order, with the most imminent at the top. You can edit the search for events in outher FIDE nations, if you are looking for SCO, WLS etc.
Last but not least the English Chess Federation event calendar should have ALL ENGLISH registered events including Over The Board (OTB), Online, Rapid, Standard, International and so on. You can find that calendar here - https://www.englishchess.org.uk/event-calendar/.
GET OUT AND PLAY CHESS!
Adam Raoof