At the board, turnover, connections and negotiating leverage count for nothing.
Founders, executives, investors, owners of small companies. An evening where you are not selling anything to anyone and not a single employee depends on your decision.
There are two ways in. Come on your own to a regular club evening, where people are already playing. Book your own tournament - a private one: for your team, a business club, your clients, or as a match against another company.
No open tournament yet · private ones on request
We have not scheduled an open tournament for entrepreneurs yet, and we are not going to make up a date: the schedule lives in the app, and when one is set it will appear there. What we can put together at any time is a private tournament for your company or club - there is no need to wait for the general schedule. And if you just want to play, the club already runs regular chess evenings in Moscow.
An entrepreneur gets invited to a dozen events a month, and nearly all of them follow the same script: a talk, a round of introductions, a swap of business cards. A chess evening is different in three ways.
Turnover, connections and negotiating skill count for nothing at the board. Whoever played this particular game better wins, and that is a rather refreshing feeling.
All day you decide for your team and with other people's money. Here the consequences of a move stop with you and last twenty minutes.
The game gives you a reason to talk, and nobody has to sell anything to anyone. If a business conversation happens, it starts afterwards - and only if both sides want it.
We will not promise that chess develops strategic thinking or helps in negotiations - there is nothing to back that up. What we promise is exactly what happens: a few games, real people and an evening you will not want to leave after half an hour.
Founders · co-owners · CEOs · managing partners
Heads of business units · COOs · branch managers
Investors · advisers · lawyers · growth consultants
Small businesses · franchisees · agencies · freelancers
Nobody asks about your company's turnover at the door. It would not help you at the board anyway.
Three kinds of people end up side by side on an evening: those who play every day, those who last played at university, and those who open the app in a taxi between meetings. All three leave happy, and here is why.
Pairings follow the Swiss system: after the first round you are matched with people of your own level and play only them from then on. Beginners do not get crushed, and strong players do not get bored.
The only requirement is knowing how the pieces move. If you are rusty: how the pieces move, the rules of chess, tactics for beginners.
Pick your city, see what is on and sign up in two taps. No forms, no rating required.
On your own or with your partners. We bring the boards and clocks, and you do not need to know anyone.
Several blitz games under the Swiss system. The app picks your opponent by strength, not alphabetically.
Points and tiebreaks are calculated automatically and the results are visible straight away. After that, stay as long as you like.
Pairings, boards and standings are handled by the Vibe Chess app, using the bbpPairings engine under FIDE rules. How the system works - the Swiss system.
The kind of people you would have to sit and listen to at a business breakfast. Here you just play.
At the board there is no job title and no revenue. An employee can beat the owner, and that is perfectly normal.
Two hours where a decision affects only your game and nobody's salary.
You see the result at the end of the evening. In business that rarely happens.
A reason to get clients and partners together that looks neither pushy nor cheap.
First place, and a club rating that carries on between evenings.
No need to wait for the general schedule. We put together a private tournament for a specific team, community or client meeting: we turn up with boards and clocks, host the evening and handle the pairings and standings. You provide the people, the room and the date.
A private evening just for your people: a department, the management team or the whole company. From eight people to a hundred.
Your team against a team of partners or competitors. The score adds up from the games on every board.
A tournament for a community or a private club: a ready-made programme for the evening that you do not have to invent or host yourselves.
A tournament for clients and partners - as a reason to meet, not as a pretext for a presentation.
We reply the same day and tell you what we need from you and what it costs for your number of people.
A format of its own: two teams from two different companies sit down opposite each other. Partners, suppliers or direct competitors - a match with a team score and a winner.
We balance the line-ups by strength so the match is not over by move three. The same format works inside a single company too: department against department, sales against production, the founders against everyone else.
We can help you find the other team as well - just tell us you are up for it.
Set up a match between companiesA tournament as part of a company event - corporate tournaments. Tournaments between companies in one sector - industry tournaments. The same format for other professions - for programmers, for doctors, for finance professionals, for lawyers, for engineers, for data analysts, for economists, for dentists, for architects and designers, for academics and lecturers, for marketers.
Yes, and most people are in the same boat. You only need to know how the pieces move. The Swiss system pairs you with players of your own level from the second round onwards, so lopsided games are rare.
No. No rating, no title and no tournament experience are required. You get a club rating automatically after your first game.
No. No introduction rounds, no elevator pitches, no compulsory programme. People get to know each other as they play, because the opponent changes every round; if you want to talk business, do it afterwards, but nobody expects you to.
Yes, that is how most people come. There is no need to work the room: over the evening you play several people and end up talking to them just in the course of things.
Yes. The team plays inside the general tournament, and the results can be counted separately. If you want a private tournament just for your people, that is a different format: drop us a line.
Usually two to two and a half hours of play. A blitz game takes about ten minutes, and there are five to seven rounds.
Yes, it is one of the most common requests. We bring boards and clocks, host the evening and handle the pairings and standings - the club gets a ready-made programme for the evening that it does not have to invent or run itself.
No date has been set yet. The schedule lives in the app: open it, pick a city and you will see the club's upcoming evenings, and when an industry tournament appears it will be listed there too. You can come to a regular evening right now.
Yes, and there is no need to wait for the general schedule. You provide the people, the room and the date; we handle the rest. The format works for anything from eight people to a hundred.
Nothing. We bring the boards, clocks and score sheets. The app for pairings and standings is free, and you do not have to install it in advance.
An evening where nobody will pitch to you
There is no date yet for an open tournament for entrepreneurs, and we are not inventing one. Open the app: it lists the upcoming evenings, and the industry tournament will appear there too. A private one for your team or club we can put together at any time.
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