At the moment all chesshere.com tournaments are round-robin tournaments consisting of one group. The maximum number of players in a tournament is 10 players. when you start/join a tournament you will play two games(Black and White) against every other player in the tournaments, games are started automatically whenever a new player joins the tournament.

A player is credited 1 point for winning a tournament game, 1/2 point for drawing and nothing for losing, a player who get's the highest number of points is cosidered a winner of the tournament.

Any player who made more than 50 moves at chesshere.com can join/start tournaments, however, he has to be allowed to play X concurrent games more, X is the number of games to be started for that player in the tournament. These limits don't apply to premium members, premium members can join unlimited number of tournaments.

This is possible only if no other player joined the tournament yet.

In a thematic tournament, all games are started from a different starting position than the normal one.