Assess the position, weigh the risk, make the move. In the evening, at the board.
Traders, analysts, auditors, risk managers, finance directors. A real board instead of a terminal, and people who do not need it explained why one mistake wipes out thirty right decisions.
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 a desk, the whole firm, your clients, or two teams playing each other.
No open tournament yet · private ones on request
We have not scheduled an open industry tournament 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 firm - 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.
Chess and finance work in similar ways - not as a pretty metaphor for a pitch deck, but as a fairly everyday observation. The likeness comes down to three things.
Being up material does not win the game if the position is bad. Familiar to anyone who has looked at a handsome balance sheet right before a bad quarter.
You can almost never calculate to the end. You calculate as far as you can, then you judge and you move.
Thirty good moves and one bad one add up to a loss. Finance has a different name for it, but it works the same way.
We will not promise that any of this improves your decisions at work - there is nothing to back that up. But people from finance usually find it interesting at the board, and one evening is enough to find out.
Traders · portfolio managers · brokers · analysts
CFOs · finance directors · M&A · investment bankers
Auditors · accountants · tax advisers · compliance
Risk managers · actuaries · insurance · fintech product people
Nobody asks for your job title at the door. If your work is about money and risk one way or another, that is enough.
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. 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 colleagues. 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.
People from other banks, funds and firms whom you otherwise only ever see on calls.
No budget, no connections, no negotiating leverage. At the board, the only thing that counts is how you play.
Two hours of calculating variations instead of budgets. And nobody at the table needs your job explained to them.
The standings show your result right away, not at the end of the quarter.
A chess evening is a reason to invite people you would feel awkward inviting to go bowling.
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 firm, desk or client event: 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 desk, the management team or the whole firm. From eight people to a hundred.
Your team against a team from another bank or fund. The score adds up from the games on every board.
A tournament for clients and partners: a reason to get people together that looks neither pushy nor cheap.
A chess area or an evening tournament at a forum, an industry conference or a company day.
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 firms sit down opposite each other. Not an office party inside one building, but 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 firm too: front office against back office, analysts against traders, accounts 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 firmsA tournament as part of a company event - corporate tournaments. How tournaments between companies in one sector come together - industry tournaments. The same format for other professions - for programmers, for doctors, for entrepreneurs, 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.
Probably the neighbouring one: we have a separate track for macroeconomists, planning teams, consultants and university lecturers. This page is about markets, corporate finance, accounting and risk. The evenings themselves are shared, so you can come to any of them.
Yes, that is how most people come. There is no need to work the room: your opponent changes every round, so over the evening you end up talking to several people just in the course of things.
Yes. The team plays inside the general tournament, and the results can be counted separately to see which desk or bank scored more. 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. A tournament for clients and partners runs as a private event: we run the games, you look after the people. The format works because it asks nothing of the guests - no preparation and no athletic ability.
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. We bring boards and clocks, host the evening and handle the pairings and standings; you provide the people, the room and the date. The format works for anything from eight people to a hundred.
Yes, that is a separate format: two teams sit down opposite each other, and the points from every board add up to a team score. We balance the line-ups by strength so the match is not a whitewash. If you do not have a second team, we will help you find one.
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.
You see the result at the end of the evening, not the end of the quarter
There is no date yet for an open tournament for finance professionals, 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 firm we can put together at any time.
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