I have been experimenting with the Team feature and tournament features in Lichess, but I just learned that it's not possible to have swiss, round robin or manual pairing in Lichess. A couple of months ago, I organized a rapid league in my chess club and it went really well, but after a few months, we stopped it due to financial problems. There were three leagues, A, B and C with one round-robin tournament each month (For A and B) while C had a swiss tournament. After each tournament, the top and bottom two shift groups and the winners of the Swiss get a place in B group. Learned so much from running the league. Recently I checked Lichess and fell in love with the beautiful interface (but sad at the lack of features for Swiss/RR tournaments), so, I wanted to ask if there's a good place to organize such a league online? I checked chess.com but it wants me to pay. Still researching!
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1Have you seen this question asked previously? Does it answer your question? chess.stackexchange.com/questions/468/…– user14405Mar 26 '18 at 12:36
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lichess has swiss, but still lacks round robin capability. I too am looking for round robin format. Chess.com might have it. I read the "daily tournament" is a round robin, and you can make your own, but you have to be a paying member which I am not.– YwapomJan 6 at 20:17
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Isn't a Swiss with n players and n-1 rounds just a Round Robin? Can that be organized?– DavidMay 6 at 21:47
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@David I'm a bit late to the party, but no that's not the same. In particular, in a Swiss you might run out of legal pairings. Consider this 6 player tournament: R1: 1 v 4, 2 v 5, 3 v 6; R2: 1 v 3, 2 v 4, 5 v 6; R3: 1 v 5, 2 v 3, 4 v 6; then there is no possible round 4 pairing since 1-2-6 all need to play each other and 3-4-5 all need to play each other.– koedemSep 4 at 2:48
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@koedem Oh, I see! Guess it's like a round-robin but worse!– DavidSep 4 at 7:44
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This is an online option:
But beware that the free version has the following limitations: up to 20 players in only one category, up to 5 rounds with only one tiebreak method.
answered Aug 24 '18 at 11:46
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this appears to be for over-the-board tournaments, not online playing sites.– YwapomJan 6 at 20:19