ChessVibes launches tournament calendar
6 February 2008 10:20 AM CET | Last modified: 0:50 | By Peter Doggers | Filed under: Reports | Tags: This site
A completely new functionality has been added to this site today: a tournament calendar. From now on, here at ChessVibes you can check the international tournament schedule and plan your own tournaments.
The calendar contains mainly open tournaments, where you, the ChessVibes audience, could participate. At the moment you’ll find mostly events with a classical time control; perhaps we will add rapid and/or blitz events as well, although this might damage the list’s clarity.
You will also see the big invitations (round-robins) and super tournaments. This way it’s easy to check when the big guys are active in top events like Morelia/Linares and Sofia, or e.g. when the Grand Prix Series or the Olympiad will be. In the month, week and day views you can easily find current events; in the event view you’ll find all upcoming events in a long list. (By the way, the size of this list can be increased to 50 items.)
The tournament calendar isn’t finished yet. We will continue to work on both content and technique. But we decided to publish it already, because we might be able to make some changes based on your feedback.
The most important tournaments of the coming months have been added, but of course this content will be changing continually. An important option to mention: as a tournament organizer, you can add tournaments yourself. For this, click on the ‘Month’ view, go to the date when your event starts, and click on the little ‘plus’ sign.
Of course it’s also possible to send events through email. For this, we’ve set up the logical address
With this calendar we hope to provide a service chess fans might be missing now that www.chess-calendar.nl isn’t kept up to date anymore. Pioneer GM Harmen Jonkman’s website has existed for about ten years now and is quite famous in the chess world. We’ve had similar ideas about offering a service of upcoming events through a calendar on ChessVibes, but it was never really necessary because of Harmen’s hard work.
We have contacted Harmen, and it turned out that during the last few months he simply hasn’t found the time to work on his calendar. So as from today, you can find a similar service here at ChessVibes. As soon as Harmen has some more time, there might be ways to cooperate with him - we’ll keep you posted. Till then: enjoy the ChessVibes Calendar.
Het is mooi maar de site wordt steeds meer door de bomen het bos niet meer zien. Het wordt allemaal te priegelig. Denk wat ruimer qua lay out. Dan wordt het nog mooier. Veel succes verder, groeten Manuel.
Excellent idea.Harmen Jonkman’s calendar should find a worthy replacement,because it was very helpful for bot amateur and professionals of the game.
misschien zou het interessant zijn om alleszins de data in dd/mm/jjjj te veranderen. leest iets makkelijker.
misschien interessant om de tornooien in de buurt in het vet te zetten. ik zie mezelf niet zo snel naar mexico afzakken. Ik denk aan capelle la grande of mainz rapid bvb.
Tja, in de buurt is nogal een relatief begrip voor een internationale schaaksite.
Priegelig?het nieuwe design heeft de site voor mij duidelijker en strakker gemaakt. Het enige wt nu si toegevoegd is een link je in de bovenste navigatiebalk. Kijk eens naar een site als hyves en youtube, wat massa’s gebruikne, dan kan ChessVibs nog wel even voort…
@Louis de funes
De data zijn inmiddels een stuk duidelijker in de events view.
Great!
Thanks to its ics exporting feature, I can import the calendar into my Google Calendar account and keep myself informed.
Good job !
ChessVibers, thanks a lot!
I sorely missed an updated tournament calendar recently. By the way, I noticed a small lapse in the list: Lugano is not in Italy, but in Switserland.
Thanks Maarten! Hopefully It’ll help to get you to more tournaments again.
Just a hint: it would be nice to separate the country column from the location making possible to order by country. It’s unlikely that I will travel 3000km to an Open tournament but it would be useful to check my country or neighbouring countries easily. Thanks.
I would find a filter or column dealing with the location useful as well!