We Built SEEChess Because Finding a Tournament Shouldn't Be This Hard
100 years of chess history. Dozens of tournament organisers. No single calendar. If you wanted to play competitive chess in Europe, you had to check ten different websites in five different languages. So GM Alexander Delchev and I built one place for all of it.
11
Countries Covered
19+
Active Listings
Swiss & RR
Tournament Types
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Time Controls
The problem every travelling chess player knows
I have played tournament chess across multiple countries. And every single time, finding the next tournament is the same frustrating process: Google a federation website, navigate a page that has not been updated since 2008, find a PDF brochure in a language you do not speak, try to figure out dates and entry fees, repeat for the next country. Chess organisers are not web developers. They are chess people doing their best with limited resources. The information exists — it is just scattered across Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, and Turkey.
How it started — a GM and a developer
SEEChess was born from a partnership between Grandmaster Alexander Delchev and me. GM Delchev is a highly experienced chess professional and active tournament organiser with deep connections across the European chess circuit. He identified the gap — there was no single, unified resource for the region's tournament landscape — and brought decades of professional insight into what players actually need when planning their season. I designed and built the platform. His vision, my code. The objective was straightforward: make it easier for players from India, Europe, and beyond to discover strong tournaments, plan their season, and connect with the European chess community.
One calendar to rule them all
see-chess.com is a free, community-driven chess tournament calendar that aggregates events across all of South Eastern Europe into a single, filterable interface. You pick your country, your month, your format — classical, rapid, or blitz — and you see what is available. Each listing shows dates, location, prize fund, entry fee, number of rounds, and a direct link to the organiser's page. No Repeated Emails. No five-tab research sessions.
Why South Eastern Europe specifically
Because it is one of the richest and most underserved chess regions in the world. Serbia alone produces more grandmasters per capita than almost anywhere. Croatia, Hungary, Romania, Greece — all have deep chess traditions and active tournament circuits. But the region is fragmented: different federations, different languages, different website standards. A player in Zagreb has no easy way to discover a tournament in Thessaloniki next month. GM Delchev's network across these federations gives SEEChess access to tournament information that would take an outsider weeks to compile.
What it looks like in practice
Right now the platform tracks open tournaments across Hungary, Serbia, Greece, Turkey, Croatia, and Bulgaria — with more countries being added. Users can filter by country and browse tournament types — Swiss or Round Robin. Each tournament card gives you everything you need to make a decision: dates, city, time control, prize money, entry cost, and a link to register. There is also a newsletter for players who want updates pushed to them, and a tournament archive for historical reference.