Playing chess online with upgraded interface November 1, 2023 New interface and workflows for playing and managing online games. Read More
Mobile friendly tournament management system July 28, 2023 Run any Event from your phone on Tornelo. Read More
Tournament Management Revolutionized May 18, 2023 Introducing a User-Friendly Interface for Seamless Event Organization and Unmatched User Experience Read More
Accepting Team Payments May 2, 2023 Collecting entry fees for Team events has never been easier! New features for Team Payments. Read More
Deputy Arbiters May 2, 2023 Divide and conquer. Add Deputy Arbiters to specific Sections and delegate responsibilites exactly as you want. Read More
Supporting New Zealand Chess Federation rated events March 18, 2023 Use NZCF Rating list and download a NZCF Rating Report! Read More
Is Tornelo free? March 4, 2023 Tornelo is free to use – you can even pass your Entry fee processing fees to players. Read More
Arbiter call gets an upgrade March 4, 2023 Players can stop their games and call the Arbiter. The Arbiter gets notified in style! Read More
Our new Arbiter menu bar February 26, 2023 Arbiter menu bar has all actions, options and shortcuts needed to manage your tournaments. Read More
Custom questions on chess tournament registration forms February 26, 2023 Arbiters can now add custom questions to their Registration process on Tornelo. Read More
Undo feature and latest improvements February 26, 2023 Even Arbiters can mouse-slip! Learn more about new features designed to make your life easier. Read More
Financial report made easy February 26, 2023 Comprehensive financial report and an efficient process for managing payments is an essential feature for a tournament management system. Read More
PayPal payments? YES! February 2, 2023 Collect registration fees from players through Tornelo with your PayPal account directly into the pairing program. Read More
Scheveningen, tiebreaks and new payment methods October 21, 2022 Scheveningen pairings, team buchholz by match or game scores and take iDEAL payments. Read More
All new registration process October 13, 2022 Collect registrations from players into events easily and effectively with the new Tornelo registration process. Read More
Arbiter tokens, scoresheet app and certificates September 30, 2022 Making it easier for players to join an online tournament – no account needed! Preview our scoresheet app and let players download personalised certificates after every tournament! Read More
Limburg Open: an improved player experience June 9, 2022 Limburg Open with 450 players chose Tornelo cloud-based management system and was able to start the 1st round in record time! Read More
Printing pairings, lists and results April 20, 2022 You can now print all your tournament data, nicely formatted by using our new Print button! Read More
Embed anything from Tornelo on your own website March 30, 2022 We released a little early this week because we were just too excited to make … Read More
Team matches, awarding trophies and re-rating tournaments March 16, 2022 Today’s release was another Major Milestone with some significant changes and huge new features! There … Read More
Player profiles, forbidden pairs and new look for Organizations February 9, 2022 Player profiles, forbidden pairs and new look for Organizations Our release this week is mostly … Read More
e-Boards for Hybrid chess tournaments or Broadcasting chess games live January 21, 2022 e-Boards for Hybrid chess tournaments or Broadcasting chess games live We provide an incredibly convenient … Read More
National Federation ratings integration July 26, 2021 This week you may have noticed some new options in your Tournament Settings, which will … Read More
Restart a finished game, import pairings and custom rules on a single game July 15, 2021 1. Feature: Restart a finished game Let’s imagine a game ended in a draw, or … Read More
Player list, upload entries via CSV and search by FIDE ID June 27, 2021 Some more minor updates this week as we finished the integration with the FIDE Rating … Read More
Major Changes: Release Notes 2021-05-31 May 31, 2021 Get ready for some major changes and very cool new features on Tornelo. In the … Read More
Open e-Board protocol, block players and edit player information April 30, 2021 This has been a challenging week for our users and I’d like to thank everyone … Read More
The future of chess April 24, 2021 The year is 2026, the Melbourne Chess Club annual club championships is starting in a … Read More
Smart cheating, private dedicated servers, support for DGT e-boards and pinning players April 22, 2021 1. Feature: Fair Play “smart cheating” mode The Fair Play report is designed to give … Read More
Why we suffered our first “crash” March 16, 2021 Tornelo does something quite unique in the world of online chess platforms. We have the … Read More
Export PGN and structural changes March 2, 2021 This month our focus was on speed! We are hosting the World Universities Online Chess … Read More
Arbiter resources February 21, 2021 Way back in August I was listening to Adam Raoof’s The Chess Circuit podcast and … Read More
Major Changes: Games now played in the lobby, display clocks on pairings, cancel games, flags, new variant and broadcast PGN January 31, 2021 It’s been nearly 3 months since we last released changes to Tornelo, but you’re about … Read More
FIDE approves hybrid competitions for rating January 19, 2021 A landmark announcement today with FIDE declaring that Hybrid Chess Tournaments (played online) will now … Read More
Live PGN broadcast, CSV import, take-back moves and use FEN for start position November 11, 2020 It’s been another busy few weeks with some fairly major features to report, including our … Read More
Player import, PGN Import, take-me chess and round status (draft, published, live) October 20, 2020 I was a little bit slack with my release notes (preparing to win FIDE selection … Read More
European Online Youth Chess Championship September 20, 2020 Over the past decade Tornelo has been used to manage a wide variety of events; … Read More
FIDE’s TRF file format August 13, 2020 FIDE update their TRF File format as the agreed Data Exchange format for tournament results … Read More
Click to move, declare draw, download PGN and TRF import/export updates August 13, 2020 We have a number of small changes being released this weekend. Please take note! 1. … Read More
Self-scheduled matches August 11, 2020 I love discovering from our Organisers new ways that Tornelo is being used to run … Read More
Substantially fungible August 11, 2020 Or, The Commodity of Chess Fungible is one of my favourite words to say, it’s a … Read More
Scheduled Events v. On-Demand Chess August 6, 2020 There are lots of opportunities to play chess now that the entire world is online. … Read More
Security and privacy improvements, sounds and downloads/uploads July 16, 2020 Lots of bug-fixes this week on Tornelo.com and tightening of our Privacy Features. The release is not yet … Read More
Rating list updates, privacy settings simplified, and entering teams July 2, 2020 There are some major changes planned for the latest Tornelo release (due to go live later today). Please … Read More
Call arbiter online! June 17, 2020 Dear Arbiters, The release today is just for you! 1. Feature: Call Arbiter button All players will … Read More