Vibe Chess
Chess evenings
Play. Meet people.
Spend the evening differently
Chess meetups in bars and cafes: a short tournament, a few games, and people who came to enjoy themselves rather than to prove a rating. No chess snobbery.
Vibe Chess Bot→Registration and schedule live in Telegram
Cities
OmskNaberezhnye ChelnyKirovRyazanAstrakhanPenzaKaliningradLipetskCheboksaryTulaSochiStavropolKurskUlan UdeTverMagnitogorskSurgutBryanskIvanovoYakutskBalashikhaGroznyVladimirChitaNizhny TagilKalugaBelgorodPodolskVolzhskyPyatigorskMinskGomelGrodnoVitebskMogilevBrestBobruiskAlmatyAstanaShymkentAktobeKaraganda
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Guides and tools
Everything here is free and needs no account. Most of it was written because we needed it ourselves while running club evenings.
Run a tournamentA step-by-step guide: format, pairings, tie-breaks, prizes.Chess clockA clock that works in the browser. No install, no account.Rules of chessHow the pieces move, castling, en passant, draws.Board setupWhere every piece goes, and the mistakes people make.Buchholz scoreHow the tie-break is calculated, with worked examples.Tournament softwareWhat to use for pairings and results, and what it costs.