Chess administration for the people who run the game.

JibsyChess builds tournament software, chess bots and websites for chess players, clubs, schools and associations, made in South Africa by a working arbiter.

Email us See what we do

What we do

Three things, done properly: software that makes running a tournament easy, a chess bot built from your own games, and websites that give your club or association a proper home online.

JibsySwiss

Tournament pairing simple enough for everyone

Coming soon

  • Free to use
  • Easy to learn: run your first tournament without training, with a short guide beside every feature
  • Works on any phone, tablet or laptop, straight from the browser, with nothing to install
  • Keeps running at the venue when the signal drops, and syncs when it's back
  • Swiss and round-robin pairings for individual and team events
  • League fixtures across venues, or a cup over a day or weekend
  • School squads with A, B and C teams, and automatic move-up when a player is absent
  • Tiebreaks in whatever order you choose
  • Live results that players and parents can follow from their phones

JibsyChessBots

A chess bot of you

Launching December 2026

  • Built from your own Lichess and Chess.com games
  • Plays your openings and your habits, mistakes included, at your strength
  • Friends play your bot from a link, even when you are offline
  • A full game review after every game, every move rated from Brilliant to Blunder
  • Every time control, plus Chess960 and other variants
  • For players with 1,000 games or more, Lichess and Chess.com together
Play our bots

Chess websites

A proper home online for your club, school or association

  • Designed for phones first, where your players actually are
  • News, events, results and photo galleries
  • Ratings and player pages if your association needs them
  • Hosting, security updates and small content changes handled for you

Pricing depends on what your organisation needs. Ask us for a quote.

Recent work: chrishanichess.co.za, with live ratings and player profiles for the Chris Hani Chess Association.

Get a quote

How JibsyChess started

I've played chess since 2018, starting as chess captain at my school. In 2023 I began playing for the Chris Hani Chess Association (CHCA), a developing chess region in South Africa, and was later elected its Deputy President. I'm also its Ratings Officer and a tournament arbiter.

That work showed me how much of district chess runs on volunteers' goodwill. Results end up in spreadsheets and group chats, and teachers who want to run a tournament are stuck with pairing software that's hard to learn. Most of them simply can't use it.

So, while studying IT at CPUT, I started building what we were missing. I built CHCA's website, with live ratings, public player profiles and a points-based system for selecting teams. Then I started on a pairing program simple enough for everyone to use.

What drives all of it is fairness. Every player should be able to see their results, understand their rating and trust how teams are picked.

Other districts, clubs and schools have the same problems, so in 2026 I started JibsyChess to bring these tools to them. Everything we build comes from someone who runs tournaments, rates them and knows what goes wrong on the day.

KhanyisileFounder, JibsyChess

Since 2018
Playing competitive chess
Deputy President
Chris Hani Chess Association
Ratings Officer
Processing ratings for a whole district
Arbiter
Running tournaments on the day

Let's talk

Tell us about your club, school or event, and what you need. We'll come back with a clear quote. Email khanyisile.majiba@chrishanichess.co.za. Or message @JibsyChess on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, X or YouTube.

Email us