Author: Laurence Chen
Date: 07:16:39 04/03/99
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On April 02, 1999 at 21:23:28, Dann Corbit wrote: >Does anyone know of some good tournament management software? > >A package that does crosstables, event ELO calculations, and things of that >nature would be ideal. > >And (if possible) I would prefer a system that comes with source code so that I >can fix it if I find something broken, and because (well) I like to diddle. Try this program "Swiss Perfect 98". Below is a list of the features of the program. Below is the web-page and e-mail if you need more information. http://www.hsv.tis.net/chess/swiss_perfect/ email: dhayes@traveller.com Swiss Perfect is a Windows application for conducting board games and sports tournaments. It is feature-rich and highly configurable. TOURNAMENT SYSTEMS - Swiss - Round-Robin SWISS PAIRING SYSTEMS - FIDE - USCF - Configurable options: barred pairings re-pairing forfeited games colourless pairing special rules for last round pairings, optional manual pairing, Testing of manual or automatic pairings for formal correctness, Verification of manual and automatic pairings against Swiss Perfect pairing ROUND-ROBIN PAIRING SYSTEMS - Standard - Rutsch (carousel) LIST OF PARTICIPANTS - Full support for late entries, withdrawals and byes - Ability to sort at any stage of the tournament (selectable sort criteria) - Editable start numbers (don't have to reflect the position on the starting list) - Import from DBF and text files (including the FIDE Rating List) RESULTS AND SCORES - One-touch results entry - All possible single-game scores supported (1:0, =:=. 0:1, =:0, 0:=, 0:0, +:-, -:+, -:-) - Multi-game scores (combination of single-game scores) eg. 4.5:1.5 if multi-games are configured as 6. - Minor Scores (or secondary scores - to be used for example as match scores in team tournaments) - Configurable tie-break criteria: Buchholz Median-Buchholz, Berger, Progress, Opponents' Rating Sum, Number of Wins Minor Scores Brightwell RATINGS - Two Elo-based rating systems for calculating international and national (local) rating performances, expected scores etc. - Separate configurable options (upper and lower limits) for each system VIEWS, PRINTING, PRINT PREVIEW - Several different views of tournament data: List of Players Round Results Standings Cross Table Ratings Pairing Info Individual Cards Ability to export (save) any of the views in a text format, HTML and ICS buffer formats - All views customisable (selectable columns and fonts) - Configurable symbols for representing results in the cross table (for example W for a win, D for a draw and L for a loss) - Configurable symbol representing a half point in Results and Standings Views - Printing of each view (WYSIWYG) - Print preview for each view (WYSIWYG) Swiss Perfect can handle up to 1000 players and 60 rounds
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