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Live Chess Tournament Results

Live standings for ongoing chess tournaments, round-by-round pairings, tiebreak systems in action and an archive of completed events. Public, no account, always up to date.

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Live and recent tournament results

Below you'll find chess tournaments around the world currently in progress or recently finished. The list shows live standings, last-round pairings, and freshly archived events. Everything is public — no registration needed.

Looking for a specific tournament? Open the app and search by name, city or date. Want to find a tournament to play in instead? Go to the tournament calendar.

How to read tournament results

A chess tournament's standings show players ordered by total score. A win is worth 1 point, a draw 0.5, a loss 0. When multiple players finish on the same score, tiebreak systems determine the final order. The most common worldwide are Buchholz (sum of opponents' scores), Buchholz Cut-1 (excluding the lowest opponent), Sonneborn-Berger, direct encounter and number of wins.

On a tournament's live results page you'll also find round-by-round pairings (who plays whom), each player's performance (the equivalent rating implied by their tournament results), and for FIDE-rated events the expected rating change.

Learn more in our tiebreak systems guide and the Swiss system guide.

Player search and tournament archive

The ChessPairings.org results service isn't just about ongoing tournaments — it also includes an archive of all completed events that were published publicly. You can:

  • track all tournaments a specific player has entered, with final standings and round-by-round results;
  • filter tournaments by city, date range, or format;
  • consult the standings and cross-tables of archived events;
  • download the TRF files used for FIDE rating submission.

Results are entered directly by the arbiter or organizer and are visible the moment they're saved.

Chess results around the world

National federations affiliated to FIDE typically maintain their own results portals for high-level events (national championships, top leagues, federation cups), while regional federations and individual clubs often publish their tournaments through independent platforms. The English, Welsh, Scottish, Irish, Indian and US federations each have well-established calendars and a thriving over-the-board scene that complements the major online events.

ChessPairings.org provides a unified, free results service for any tournament — from club nights and weekend opens to major festivals with hundreds of players. The platform produces TRF files automatically for FIDE rating submission and works for both classical and rapid/blitz events.

Also see our tournament calendar to find an event to play in.

Chess results FAQ

If you know the tournament's name, look for it in the list above (which shows live and recent events). For older tournaments, open the app and use the search by name, city or date range. All tournaments published as public are accessible without an account.
Open the tournament page and find the player's name in the standings: each player has a card showing their pairings, round-by-round results and colors played. To see all tournaments a player has entered, use the player search inside the app.
When two or more players are tied on points, the tiebreak determines their final order. The most common worldwide is Buchholz: the sum of the scores of all opponents the player has faced. A higher Buchholz means the opponents were "tougher", so the player gets a higher finishing position. Each tournament configures its own order of tiebreak criteria in the regulations.
ChessPairings.org supports 28 tiebreak systems including Buchholz, Buchholz Cut-1, Buchholz Median, Sonneborn-Berger, direct encounter, number of wins, number of black games, progressive score and many more. You can configure them in any order to match your tournament's regulations or your national federation's requirements.
Yes. The system automatically generates the TRF (Tournament Report File), the standard format for FIDE rating reports. You can send this file to FIDE or to your national federation to have your tournament rated. For national rating systems (DWZ in Germany, ELO in many countries) the TRF format is widely supported.
Yes. Every tournament page published on ChessPairings.org has a public URL you can share via WhatsApp, email, or social media. Anyone with the link sees the standings and pairings in real time, without needing to create an account — from desktop, tablet or mobile.
Results are entered into the system by the arbiter or organizer and become visible immediately — no delay. At larger tournaments, standings are typically updated at the end of each round. If you're following a round, you usually see the updated table within minutes of the last game finishing.

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