Chess
Tournament Administration Program
FIDE
approved
Crossplatform
for Windows and Linux
VEGA
is a program for the administration of a chess tournament. VEGA has been
organized in order to reproduce as close as possible to the tasks of the arbiter
during a tournament:
1. Registration
of the players;
2. Perform the pairing of next round;
3. Insert the results of the current round;
4. Prepare the cross table and other ranking lists.
Vega has been designed to be 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.
Features of
Vega:
- FIDE approved (Dubov swiss system)
- Registration
up to 999 players and evaluation of 20 rounds for swiss system;
- Round Robin
system up to 24 players;
- Automatic
pairing due to the FIDE swiss (Dubov and Lim variant), Swiss based on Bucholz
(Vega), swiss USCF, single and double
Round Robin;
- Manual pairing;
- Taking care
of odd numbers of players;
- Evaluation
of results (1-0, 1/2, 0-1, 0-0, etc...) and non standard results (0-1/2,
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...;
- Tournament web site generation;
- Rating report to FIDE and USCF (3 dbf files)
- Vega is crossplatform
and run under Windows and Linux thanks to the crossplatform library Ultimate++
(version 4.2 used MGUI);
- Import data from any formatted (fixed lenght)
database (i.e. FIDE);
- Non standard score: 0-1-3, 0-2-5;
- Special module to improve the colors after
the natural pairing;
- Accelerated rounds up to 3 groups;
- prize distribution with Hort system;
- Connection with the tool VEGANET;
- Export an entire tournament with players in a given range;
- move a given player in another tournament;
- search FIDE norm and print certificate;
Vega that you can download from this site is full functional and can be freely
used to administer tournament with not more than 30 players. To run large
tournament please contact the author.
User comment
"What I really like is that your
program enforces the rules for pairings but allows you to override them
when necessary.
You are pretty much able to duplicate real world tournament problems with
this software."
Steve Coladonato (USA)
