WinTD is a $90 Windows pairing program from Estima that has been pairing rated tournaments for decades. It is a serious tool: sections, wallcharts, USCF rating reports, and pairing logic directors trust. Chess67 covers the same pairing work, but starts earlier — with a public event page, online registration, and checkout — and runs in the browser instead of on one machine.
If you're weighing WinTD against a web-based alternative, the question usually isn't the pairing engine. It's everything around it: where entries come from, how money gets collected, and how players find out their board number. That's what this page compares.
Keep WinTD if pairing is genuinely the whole job. Switch to Chess67 if you're tired of the spreadsheet-and-cash-box layer around it.
| Fact | Chess67 | WinTD |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Web platform for chess clubs and tournaments: registration, payments, pairings, standings, and member management | Windows desktop pairing program from Estima |
| Runs on | Any browser — phone, tablet, or laptop | Windows PCs (installed locally) |
| Price | Free to use*; 2% platform fee on sales processed through Chess67 | $90 one-time license for WinTD 5.0 |
| Payments | Stripe or PayPal/Venmo checkout built into registration | None — entries and fees are collected outside the program |
| Formats & reporting | Swiss, round robin, double round robin, and quads; USCF tiebreaks and rating report export; FIDE TRF preparation | Swiss, round robin, and team sections; USCF rating reports; rating supplement lookups |
| Best for | Events where registration, payment, pairing, and publishing should be one system | Directors who want a trusted local pairing program and already handle registration elsewhere |
WinTD's price was checked at estima.com/chess on the date below; verify before buying.
*Free to use means no base subscription: publish events, run tournaments, and manage members at $0. Chess67 takes a 2% platform fee only on sales processed through Chess67; merchant processing fees are separate. The optional PayPal add-on gives a 0% platform fee on PayPal and eligible Venmo sales while active. Full details on the pricing page.
Venmo appears only where PayPal marks it eligible: US merchant and buyer, USD checkout, supported browser/device, and the Venmo app installed. PayPal eligibility docs
Chess67 replaces the toolchain, not one link of it. The club website, the registration form, tournament day, and the rating report all read and write the same records — and the people who register become the club that fills your next event.
Everyone who registered is already in your member list — there is no export at the end and no starting over.
Where WinTD fits: WinTD lives in stages three and four — pairings and rating reports, and it's good at them. Stages one and two, and the membership loop underneath, are the part you're currently assembling by hand.
WinTD starts at the player list. It assumes entries already exist, so registration, payment collection, and data entry happen somewhere else first — usually a form, a spreadsheet, and a stack of USCF ID lookups. Chess67 starts at a public event page: players register and pay online, and that roster is the same one you pair from. There is no import step and no re-typing IDs at 8:45 on Saturday morning.
WinTD lives on one Windows machine, which means one operator and a line of people who need that operator. Chess67 runs in the browser: an assistant TD can enter results from a phone on the floor while you set up the next round on a laptop, and the organizer can watch registration numbers from home.
With WinTD, publishing pairings means printing pages or exporting files to post somewhere. Chess67 publishes pairings and live standings to players' phones the moment you make them — fewer people at the table asking what board they're on.
WinTD is $90 once, and that's genuinely cheap if a pairing program is all you need. Chess67 is free to use and takes a 2% platform fee on sales processed through Chess67 — a free club night costs nothing, and a $30-entry open works out to 60 cents per player. Merchant processing fees are separate in both worlds; with WinTD you're just paying them to whoever collects your money today.
Both screenshots come from public pages, linked below each image.
Chess67Chess67's round control screen: pairings, results, byes, and board operations in the browser. Real product, sample data.
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WinTDWinTD's own screenshots: desktop windows for sections, player lists, games, and setup dialogs on one Windows machine.
SourceTakeaway: Both can pair your event. The difference is that WinTD's world is the TD's workstation, and Chess67's world includes the players, the parents, and the registration money.
The screens behind the claims on this page — real product, sample data.
USCF membership checked live during signup: current ratings, status, and expiration before the entry is accepted.
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Standings update for players and parents the moment results go in — no separate publishing step.
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The USCF submission package — all three DBF files, zipped — plus CSV, TDEXPORT, and FIDE TRF16 outputs.
See it liveScored from each product's public documentation and pricing pages — the rubric is at the bottom of this page.
| Capability | Why it matters | Chess67 | WinTD |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public online registration pages | Players sign themselves up and the roster builds itself — nobody re-types entries from email. | Yes | No |
| Payments collected at signup | Entry fees arrive with the registration, so there's no cash box reconciliation afterward. | Yes | No |
| Pairings and tiebreaks built in | The same product that took registrations can pair round one — no export into separate pairing software. | Yes | Yes |
| Round robin and quad formats | Club championships, K-3 sections, and small invitationals often aren't Swiss events. | Yes | Yes |
| Live pairings and standings for players | Players check their board on a phone instead of crowding a printed wallchart between rounds. | Yes | No |
| USCF rating report export | Rated US events have to file a report — exporting it beats assembling one by hand on Sunday night. | Yes | Yes |
| FIDE report (TRF) preparation | FIDE-rated sections need a TRF file with complete player and arbiter data. Final reporting still goes through your arbiter and federation. | Partial | Yes |
| Custom registration questions and per-section pricing | School, team, bye requests, T-shirt size, different fees per section — real events need flexible forms. | Yes | No |
| Family accounts (one parent, several kids) | Scholastic events run on parents. One login that manages every child beats re-typing each kid every event. | Yes | No |
| Check-in from a phone on site | Morning check-in moves faster when any TD can work the line from a phone instead of one desk with one laptop. | Yes | No |
| Messaging and announcements to players | Round delays, room changes, and next-event announcements reach everyone without a separate email tool. | Yes | No |
| Member history (attendance, payments, engagement) | Recurring clubs need to know who's active, who paid, and which families are drifting away — per member, over time. | Yes | No |
| Full product works on phones and tablets | Parents register from phones and TDs walk the floor. Desktop-only software puts a laptop between you and both. | Yes | No |
Chess67 is free to set up — publish a tournament page, take a few registrations, and pair a round. You'll know within an hour whether it fits how you direct.
We build Chess67, so read these pages knowing that. We base each comparison on the other product's public pricing and documentation, and we say plainly when the other tool is the better pick. Verify prices and features with each vendor before you buy — they change theirs, and we change ours.
Updated 2026-06-10