A dispute that's settled in ten minutes and lands on nobody else
Litigators, corporate lawyers, in-house counsel, notaries. An evening with no client, no deadline and no court of appeal.
There are two ways in. Come on your own - to a regular club night, where people are already playing. Book your own tournament - a private one: for your firm, for the legal community, for your clients, or as a match against another firm.
No open tournament yet · private ones on request
We haven't scheduled a public tournament for lawyers yet, and we won't make up a date: the schedule lives in the app, and when one is announced, it will appear there. What we can put together any time is a private tournament for your firm or professional community- it doesn't have to wait for the general calendar. If you just want a game, the club already runs regular chess evenings in Moscow.
A lawyer spends the whole day arguing, so inviting one to argue some more in the evening sounds odd. But a chess dispute works the exact opposite way to the disputes that fill the working day.
No move comes out of nowhere: everything your opponent can do is written down and the same for both sides. At work, that's rare.
A blitz game is decided the same evening. No adjournments, no waiting for the reasoned judgment and no appeal.
There's no client whose money and nerves ride on your decision. Make a mistake and you lose a game, nothing more.
We won't promise that chess teaches you to read the other side or comes in handy in court - there's nothing to back that up. We promise exactly what happens: a few games, real people and an evening you won't want to leave after half an hour.
Litigators · trial lawyers · commercial court specialists · insolvency
M&A · corporate law · real estate · intellectual property
Company legal teams · compliance · contracts
Notaries · patent attorneys · paralegals and trainees · law students
Nobody asks about your practice area at the door. Courtroom experience won't help you at the board anyway.
Three kinds of people end up side by side at these evenings: those who play every day, those who last played in law school, and those who open a chess app between hearings. All three go home happy, and here's why.
Pairings follow the Swiss system: after the first round you're matched with people at your own level and keep playing them. Beginners don't get crushed, and strong players don't get bored.
The only requirement is knowing how the pieces move. If you're a bit rusty: how the pieces move, the rules of chess, tactics for beginners.
Pick your city, see what's on and sign up in two taps. No forms, no rating.
On your own or with colleagues. Boards and clocks are ours, and you don't need to know anyone in advance.
A few blitz games under the Swiss system. The app picks your opponent by strength, not alphabetically.
Points and tiebreaks are counted automatically and results show up straight away. There's nobody to argue the pairings with.
Pairings and standings are handled by the Vibe Chess app using the bbpPairings engine under FIDE rules. How the system works - the Swiss system.
The one evening where losing costs neither money nor a client's reputation.
After a day of documents, it's a relief to deal with a position that fits entirely on sixty-four squares.
People from other firms and practices you usually only see from the other side of the table.
A reason to get the practice group or the whole legal team together that doesn't feel like yet another team-building day.
Sometimes the best way to get to know the person rather than their position in the case.
A first place and a club rating that carries over from one evening to the next.
No need to wait for the general calendar. We put together a private tournament for a particular team, association or client gathering: we arrive with boards and clocks, host the evening and run the pairings and standings. You bring the people, the room and the date.
A private evening for a law firm or an in-house legal team: one practice group, one department or everyone at once. Anywhere from eight people to a hundred.
Your team against a team of colleagues from another firm. The score adds up across every board.
A tournament for a bar association, a professional body or law school alumni: a ready-made evening program you don't have to run yourselves.
A tournament for the firm's clients and partners - as a reason to meet, not as a pretext for a practice pitch.
We reply the same day and tell you what we need from you and what it costs for your headcount.
A format of its own: two teams from two firms sit down opposite each other. Market peers, advisers to the same client or opposing counsel - a match with a team score and a winner.
We balance the line-ups by strength so the match isn't over by move three. The same format works inside one firm too: practice against practice, litigators against the corporate team, partners against everyone else.
We can help you find the other team as well - just let us know you're up for it.
Set up a match between firmsA tournament as part of a company event - corporate tournaments. Tournaments between companies in the same sector - industry tournaments. The same format for other professions - for programmers, for doctors, for finance professionals, for entrepreneurs, for engineers, for data analysts, for economists, for dentists, for architects and designers, for academics and lecturers, for marketers.
Yes, and most people aren't. All you need is to know how the pieces move. From the second round on, the Swiss system pairs you with opponents at your own level, so one-sided games are rare.
No. No rating, no title and no tournament experience required. Your club rating appears by itself after your first game.
No. No presentations, no panel discussions, no business-card swapping round the room. People get to know each other as they play, because the opponent changes every round; if you want to talk shop, do it afterwards.
Yes, most people do. Over the evening you'll play several people and end up chatting with them along the way.
Yes. The team plays inside the general tournament, and results can be counted separately. If you'd rather have a private evening just for your own people, that's a different format: drop us a message.
Usually two to two and a half hours of play. A blitz game takes about ten minutes, and there are five to seven rounds.
The evening's host. We play under FIDE blitz rules, and the app handles the pairings and standings, so there's usually nothing to argue about - except perhaps who knocked the clock.
Yes, and it's one of the most common requests. A tournament for clients works as a reason to meet in an informal setting: we bring the boards and clocks, host the evening and keep the score.
No date has been set yet. The schedule lives in the app: open it, choose your city and you'll see the club's upcoming evenings, and once an industry tournament is announced, it will be listed there too. You can come to a regular evening right now.
Nothing. We bring boards, clocks and scoresheets. The app for pairings and standings is free, and you don't have to install it in advance.
A dispute that's over the same evening
There's no date yet for a public lawyers' tournament, and we're not inventing one. Open the app: it lists the upcoming evenings, and that's where an industry tournament will show up. A private one for your firm or community we can put together any time.
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