Author: John Wentworth2
Date: 11:06:25 02/05/03
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On February 05, 2003 at 12:19:12, Sally Weltrop wrote: >I found this on rec.games.chess.misc posted by: > >"Luigi Forlano" <forlano@fis.unical.it> > >Dear Chessfriends, > >Let me inform you about the new software VEGA (1.0 alpha) for tournament >administration. > >http://utenti.lycos.it/forlano/vega/en/ (English) >http://utenti.lycos.it/forlano/vega/ (Italian) > >VEGA includes the following functions: >- Registration up to 999 players; >- Vega is crossplatform and run under DOS, Windows and Linux (same look and >feel with button, menu bar, window etc...!); >- Evaluation of 14 rounds (this limit can be extended under windows and >Linux); >- Automatic pairing due to the FIDE-SWISS-Rules (Dubov variant), >- Manual pairing; >- Taking care of odd numbers of players; >- Evaluation of results (1-0, 1/2, 0-1, 0-0, etc...); >- Administration of the cross-table; >- Possibility of changing data (results, names, ratings etc.); >- Taking care of withdrawals and re-entries; >- Entry of players arriving late during the tournament; >- Output of pairing lists, reports, cross-tables, lists of players standing, >etc.. >- Vega is FREEWARE! > >VEGA has been designed to be very intuitive... really very intuitive, and >easy to use. If you are an arbiter with a little experience in chess pairing >program you should be able to use it without to read the user manual. Of >course for some details the user manual is mandatory. > >I wait your comments! At first glance it seems kind of odd. Some of the labels are overlapping other controls. Also, when entering a player name, the text box does not accept numeric characters so you can't enter something like "Crafty 19.2".
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