Tournament Play

What is a tournament director ("TD") in chess?

  • Competition
  • Format
  • Scores

Tournament director ("TD") is a tournament term: also tournament controller [chiefly British]. Organizer and arbiter of a tournament, responsible for enforcing the tournament rules and the laws of chess. This affects how games are organized, scored, paired, or decided.

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