[27.02.2009]Update of the program → version 3.36
[27.01.2009]Update of the program → version 3.16
Moreover, in the new version (2.20):
To update the program visit the DOWNLOAD section.
What's new
[25.08.2009]Update ChessArbiter Pro → version 3.50
- Adaptation to the new FIDE-title-regulations and FIDE-rating-regulations from the 1st July
- Other changes and bugs fix,
[20.04.2009]Update ChessArbiter Pro for draughts → version 3.40
- Added new FMDJ ratings reports:
- List of rating changes
- Rating performance
- Possibility calculate FMJD ratings for women→only tournaments
- Thanks to the use of the compression algorithm and new methods of file selection, the speed of transfer of the tournament site to the server was increased 6 times!,
- Additional options in view settings: column order, column alignment (to the left, to the centre, to the right).
- In the tournament settings window the schedule of the tournament was added with the option of displaying the shedule on the tournament′s home page as well as information on the date of the round in the association chart.
- Added possibility to change character set (code page) for single tournament (View->Tournament site settings->Code page for current web site)
- Added HTML Editor to quick edit additional html elements of main page,
- New columns added to many views,
- Other changes and bugs fix,
[07.03.2009]Update ChessArbiter Pro → version 3.45
- New Tiebreak option: The Median Buchholz 2 → The Buchholz Score reduced by the two highest and the two lowest scores of the opponents
- Added HTML Editor to quick edit additional html elements of main page,
- New style of the main page of the tournament,
- Added Support for popular characters encodings:
- 1250 → Central and East European Latin
- 1251 → Cyrillic
- 1252 → West European Latin
- 1253 → Greek
- 1254 → Turkish
- 1255 → Hebrew
- 1256 → Arabic
- 1257 → Baltic
- 1258 → Vietnamese
- with possibility convert to UTF-8 (Unicode Transformation Format),
- Other changes and bugs fix,
[07.03.2009]Update ChessArbiter Pro for draughts → version 3.36
- Possibility to create a electronical tournament report, according to FMJD rules. Choose from the menu: File->Create FMJD report file,
- Possibility to send a electronical tournament report directly to the FMJD. Choose from the menu: Internet->Send tournament report to FMJD,
- New style of the main page of the tournament,
- Added support for user messages,
- Added Support for popular characters encodings:
- 1250 - Central and East European Latin
- 1251 - Cyrillic
- 1252 - West European Latin
- 1253 - Greek
- 1254 - Turkish
- 1255 - Hebrew
- 1256 - Arabic
- 1257 - Baltic
- 1258 - Vietnamese
- with possibility convert to UTF-8 (Unicode Transformation Format),
- Other changes and bugs fix,
[07.03.2009]Update of the program → version 3.40
- New style of the main page of the tournament and other images,
- The window "Pairing players (create match)" (team version) improved,
- In the team tournament, division into a contestant′s club and team (a club and (or) team may be displayed in many views) introduced. In the tournaments created in previous versions, to see both columns you need to use the button ″restore default settings″ in the view display settings,
- Other changes and bugs fix,
[27.02.2009]Update of the program → version 3.36
To download a DEMO version or to update the program visit the DOWNLOAD section.
- Option of creating gallery of players′ photos added.
- Possibility of downloading players′ photos to the program from many sources: FIDE Base, Central Register of the Polish Chess Federation, database of the tournament service ChessArbiter, any location in the net and on the disc of a local computer,
- Possibility of displaying photos in many views, including board cards for players' and starter cards,
- Possibility of publishing tournament service with the gallery of players photos, example: Silesian Senior League
- Possibility of updating the database of "online photos" of the tournament service ChessArbiter Pro and the Central Register of the Polish Chess Federation by sending photos together with the tournament site to the tournament server,
- Possibility of moving galleries of players' photos with a tournament file to a different computer,
- Possibility of fast enlargement of photos after clicking on the miniature,
- Possibility of switching off the gallery fast in the program (and on the tournament http site) by marking off the option in the heading of "photo" column,
- Two extra fields on players′ cards:
- "IDCR" − identity number of the Central Register of the Polish Chess Federation,
- code of a player′s province
- Thanks to the use of the compression algorithm and new methods of file selection, the speed of transfer of the tournament site to the server was increased 6 times!
- In the version intended for clubs and associations, a possibility of entering the arbiter′s name was added,
- In the version intended for arbiters a possibility of entering the name of the organiser,
- Added "arbiters′ notes (reminders)" with the option of programming the day or (and) number of the round when the note is automatically displayed,
- Additional options in view settings: column order, column alignment (to the left, to the centre, to the right), determining the size and location of contestants′ photos in each view (chart) separately,
- Possibility of enlargement to the size of the full window ″Browsing, verification and correction″
- Default ″lower ranking threshold″ changed for 1200,
- New columns added to many views,
- Bugs fix,
[27.01.2009]Update of the program → version 3.16
To download a DEMO version or to update the program visit the DOWNLOAD section.
- Information on the rate of play added in tournament charts.
- In the tournament descriptive data window the timetable of the tournament was added with the option of displaying the timetable on the tournament′s main page as well as information on the date of the round in the association chart.
- The possibility of importing the tournament from the FIDE tournament report (C.Krause′s graph) added.
- The algorithm of associating pairs in the Swiss system corrected (optimisation of relocations).
- In the contestant data window the colour of records for FIDE list was changed for the option of searching through the records from all lists.
- The algorithm of associating pairs was improved with the exclusion of association of contestants from one club (federation) at present the program allows for associating contestants without the name of the club entered (club field empty)
- In the contestant data window the necessity to confirm the deletion of a contestant was added.
- In the team version, in the team data window was added the necessity to confirm the deletion of a contestant.
- Other changes and bugs fix
[12.01.2006]UPDATE OF THE PROGRAM → MULTI LANGUAGE VERSION IS AVAILABLE (ENGLISH and POLISH)
A multi language version of ChessArbiter Pro and ChesArbiter Pro Team is available.Moreover, in the new version (2.20):
- Possibility to calculate tiebreak (Buchholz, M. Buchholz, Sonenborn-Berger) according to FIDE rules (unplayed game as draw against the player himself) added. See Tournament>>Settings>>Tie Break.
- Removal of minor bugs
[23.12.05] Update of the program → version v2.15.
- Possibility to make a tournament report, according to new FIDE rules (by Christian Krause). Choose from the menu: File->Create FIDE tournament report (by Christian Krause).
- Menu ″Internet″ added. Possibility to publish and update tournament web site on www.chessarbiter.com (torunament section). To send a tournament web page to the server www.chessarbiter.com and create link in tournament section, choose from the menu: Internet->Publish web site on www.chessatbiter.com. To delete tournament, chose from menu: Internet->Delete web site from www.chessatbiter.com. Possibility to publish and update tournament web site on any internet serwer, using FTP protocol. Configuration of FTP connection is stored in program.
- After starting, the program automaticly open tournaments files which were opened previously.
- Possibility to hide a withdrawn players from the final results. Choose from menu: View ->View Settings.
- For the best legibility, results symbol (″1″ for win, ″=″ for draw and ″0″ for lost) in tournament tables and player cards were changed.
- Possibility to show a new columns in views were added.
- Removal of minor bugs from version 2.08.
To update the program visit the DOWNLOAD section.
[24.11.05] Update of the program → version v2.07.
- Possibility of switching off the links next to the names of players and names of teams (team version).
- Removal of noticed bugs.
[18.11.2005] Update of the program version v2.05. What′s new:
- A new automatic converter of older version of tournament files into the latest version (at opening of the file)
- Possibility of copying tables and views directly to TXT format compatible with MS Excel.
- For ChessArbiter Pro Team Edition, a possibility of determining match results manually (independent of chessboard results).
- New buttons (up, down) for changing chessboards at the list of paired contestants in the manual pairing window,
- Addition of a column Surname Name/Club to the pairing view,
- Possibility to sort the start list according to clubs individual version
- Removal of minor bugs
[29.10.2005] Launching the newest version of the program named ChessArbiter Pro → continuation of the program SwissPol 2003.
- Completely changed views in a new and attractive graphical layout, thanks to the integration of ChessArbiter Pro with Microsoft Internet Explorer.
- Tournament web page generator. You can view tournament pages generated by the program in the ″Tournaments″ section,
- Possibility to set any main scoring in final results, both in team and individual editions (so far, a number of points was a basic criterion),
- Calculation of norms for international FIDE titles was added (WIM, IM, WGM, GM) with a possibility to exclude the Federation condition (National Team Championship) and to set the limit of games (7, 8, 9),
- Possibility of printing match protocols has been added to the Team Edition,
- Possibility to print a match protocol (team version),
- Possibility to export pairing to PGN has been added. It increases the speed of running the tournament bulletin,
- Possibility of changing a main criterion for creation of score groups while pairing contestants in the Swiss system (e.g. high scores). Now, the program offers the possibility to pair contestants on the basis of high (match) scores,
- Possibility to change the method of sorting the contestants within a score group has been added.
[29.10.2005] Tournaments′ section
Thanks to expanding the capacity of ″ChessArbiter Pro″ by the function of generating a tournament service, we created a Tournaments′ news section in which we will be placing systematic Internet news services on all tournaments run under SwissPol 2003/ChessArbiter Pro. Due to this fact, we are asking all referees and organizer who run tournaments using SwissPol 2003 or new ChessArbiter Pro to send the tournament files ( sws or swd ) to: mail@chessarbiter.com. (© 2010-2018 Polski Związek Szachowy) Kontakt: Biuro PZSzach (biuro@pzszach.pl)