Chess Tournament Administration Program

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 all FIDE swiss system (Dubov, Lim and Dutch variant), Swiss based on Buchholz (Vega), swiss USCF, Amalfi, 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 and FTP to the site;
  • 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)