Run a rated tournament, not a spreadsheet.
Swiss, round-robin, quads, and knockout brackets — with live standings, one-click USCF and FIDE reports, team events, and online registration, all wired into the same club that already has your members.
The problem
Running a rated event is a second job.
You collect entries in one place, re-type them into pairing software, run the rounds, copy standings into an email, then assemble a rating report by hand for the USCF. Every round is a context switch, and the roster you already maintain for your club may as well not exist.
Rook Ready runs the tournament on top of your existing club. The players are your members, registration flows into the entry list, the pairing engine does the rounds, and the rating report comes out the other end — no re-keying, no second source of truth.
What's in it
From first entry to rating report.
Six pairing formats
Swiss, Double Swiss, Round Robin, Double Round Robin, Quads, and single-elimination Knockout brackets — each section picks its own. The engine handles colors, score groups, and look-ahead; you review before you post. See the formats guide →
Live standings, wallchart & cross-table
Results roll into standings as you enter them, with the full USCF tie-breaks computed for you. Players and parents follow the live standings, wallchart, cross-table, or knockout bracket — and search for their own board. See the guide →
USCF & FIDE reports
One click builds both a USCF .txt and a FIDE TRF16 from the results you already entered — no hand assembly. Each section reports under its own rating system. See the guide →
Online registration & entry fees
Players sign up through a form that captures USCF ID and section, with members pre-filled. Take entry fees by card (Stripe), at the door, or an external link — with early-bird tiers, promo codes, and refunds. See the guide →
Team events
Run team sections with captain registration, a free-agent pool, board order by rating, and team standings by match then game points — on any pairing format. See the guide →
Every change on the record
A full audit log tracks every pairing, result, correction, and bye — who did it, when, and the before-and-after. "What happened to my kid's bye?" has a real answer, not a shrug. See the guide →
More than Swiss
A bracket, a team match, or a round robin — same event.
Built for real tournaments
The details desktop tools and spreadsheets get wrong.
Rules-true pairings
Score groups, color balance, and due-color logic follow the USCF rules — not an approximation a director has to second-guess. Multiple rating systems per section (Regular, Quick, Blitz, Rapid, Dual) are handled too.
Correct with confidence
Misread a scoresheet? Reopen the round, fix it, and re-pair from the corrected standings. Need to reshape a pairing? Adjust pairings with a drag editor and a review step — every change on the record.
Tournament Director roles
Hand a director the keys to run rounds without making them a club admin — scoped to one section or the whole event. Assign directors for the people at the board.
One source of truth
The event is part of the club, so members, contacts, and history are already there — the tournament isn't a separate island of data. Prizes resolve per section or tournament-wide across every section.
Accessibility
Everyone gets a board that works for them.
Most pairing software takes an accessibility request and hands you a note to deal with. Rook Ready seats the player.
Step one
You mark your tables
Name the tables in your room that are step-free, near an exit, in a quiet corner, or set up with a large-print or raised board. Once, when you build the section.
Step two
Players say what they need
Every registration offers accessibility needs — step-free, near an exit, quiet area, large-print board — plus a note for anything specific.
Step three
The engine seats them
Every round, accommodated boards are assigned to a table that meets their needs — printed on your pairing sheet. Board numbers never move, and a table you set by hand is never overridden.
Nobody has to ask at the door. Nobody has to ask again on Sunday morning. See how it works →
At the venue
Pairings in every pocket — and a real way to reach people.
Players and parents check pairings, standings, and brackets from their phones, and the director's tools keep running through the kind of spotty venue connection every tournament has seen.
Round running late? Send a tournament announcement — scoped to just the sections that need it, sent now or scheduled the night before.
And when it's about one player, message them directly — a real two-way thread tied to their entry, that a parent can answer on a nine-year-old's behalf. A question about a bye stops being a hunt for someone's email address.
Pricing
Part of the same club you already run.
Tournaments live inside your Rook Ready club. The full tournament module is part of the Rook tier — and every club gets a 14-day free trial, enough to run your first rated event before paying anything.
See pricing →Comparing tools? See how Rook Ready stacks up against SwissSys and ChessNut.
Try it
Run your next rated event on Rook Ready.
Start free in under a minute. No credit card.