PROFESSIONAL SOFTWARE FOR CHESS TOURNAMENTS

Main features of ChessArbiter Pro:

• Organization of chess tournaments using the following systems:

• Swiss
• Traditional FIDE (default),
• With the possibility to modify the method of forming ranking groups,
• With the possibility to modify the method of sorting contestants within ranking groups,
• With the possibility to block the pairing of contestants from the same club or federation,
• With the possibility to create ranking groups in the 1st round (accelerated pairings).

• Round-robin (multi -robin),
• Free (manual pairing),

• Unlimited number of contestants and rounds,
• Organization of many simultaneous tournaments,
• Classification of contestants according to a selected main or additional scoring method (including: minor score, high score, Buchholz, average Buchholz, number of wins, Progress, average contenders’ ranking, Koyi, S-Berger, direct contest, percentage result),
• FIDE ranking classification (Rating performance, Rating changes, List of Registration, Title norms: WIM, IM, WGM, GM, IRL Report),
• Team classification of contestants: (by club or federation),
• Automatic creation of a professional web tournament service with the possibility to add and remove standard and additional elements (tournament banner, individual links, individual home page HTML code),
• Possibility to use the FIDE ranking lists in a form of a “dbf” file,
• Export of pairing to PGN,

Main features of  “ChessArbiter Pro – Team Edition”:

• Possibility to run team tournaments in the Swiss or round-robin system (Swiss system modified as in the individual version), free (manual pairing)
• Organization of simplified games (without contestants),
• Organization of full games with classification of contestants,
• Unlimited number of teams and contestants allocated to a given team,
• Full set of team reports (start lists, pairings, results, tables, match protocols)
• Possibility of setting any key criterion while calculating team results (e.g. first high scores and than minor ones),
• Separate Tie-break for teams and contestants (for individual and team results)
• Classification of teams according to a selected main or additional scoring method (including: minor score, high score, Buchholz, average Buchholz, number of wins, Progress, average contenders’ ranking, Koyi, S-Berger, direct contest, percentage result, sum of scores on chessboards),
• Full set of individual reports (start lists, tables, individual scores, scores on chessboards, start cards, team tables, FIDE reports, etc.)
• Easy and convenient use (almost identical as in the individual version of the program)

Operational environment:

• This software runs in the environments: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/2003 SERVER/
• MS Internet Explorer 6.0 is required for proper functioning.

Minimal hardware requirements:

• Processor P75 (recommended PII300 or faster)
• 24 MB RAM (recommended 64 MB or more)
• Screen resolution: 640x480 (recommended 800x600 or more)