What is it?

This is the home page of a set of three softwares, Vega, VegaTeam and Orion, released since 2003 and able to administer any chess tournament (individual or for teams). Now they are very popular and appreciated worldwide among arbiters. Their strength lies in ease of use and flexibility. All of them run under Linux, Windows, Mac OS X and Raspberry PI thanks to an advanced crossplatform library.

They have been organized in order to reproduce the arbiter’s tasks during a tournament which include:

Registration of the players;
Perform the pairing of next round;
Insert the results of the current round;
Prepare the cross table and other ranking lists.

The programs has been designed by its author, an International Arbiter, 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 reading the user manual.

These softwares are continously updated. You can download and test them freely. For a limited number of players or teams they do not require a registration and you can run the tournament till the end with all the option enabled! For Linux and Raspberry there is a freeware version!

Features

Vega (individual tournament)

Endorsed three times by FIDE (Dubov system in Torino 2006, Dutch system in Istanbul 2012 and Goynuk 2017). The Dutch system is provided by the pairing engine JaVaFo made by the International Arbiter Roberto Ricca. It has all FIDE swiss systems for individual tournament;

It runs natively under operative system Windows, MacOSX, Linux and Raspberry. Vega has been officially adopted by New Zealand Chess Federation (NZCF), Australian Chess Federation (ACF) and Spanish Chess Federation (FEDA). It is de facto the standard program in Italy. It is fully integrated with the FEDA site info64.org that publish all tournaments played in Spain. It is fully integrated with the vegaresult site for both individual e team tournament owned by the Vega's author.

Registration up to 1200 players and evaluation of 23 rounds for swiss system;
Round Robin system up to 24 players;
Automatic pairing due to all FIDE swiss system (Dubov, Lim, Dutch variant, Burstein), 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...;
Elegant tournament web site generation and its FTP to your own site;
Rating report to FIDE, USCF (3 dbf files), FSI, ECF, DZW, NZCF, FEDA, ACF ...
Import data from any formatted (fixed lenght) database (i.e. FIDE) and CSV file as well;
Non standard score: 0-1-3, 0-2-5, 3-2-1-0;
Special module to improve the colors after the natural pairing (for USCF);
Accelerated rounds according to FIDE Baku system;
prize distribution with Hort system;
search FIDE norm and print certificate.

Vega has been translated in English, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German and Russian.

Orion (team tournament)

It is able to administer a big chess event like the Olympiad.

Registration of up to 1000 Teams and a max of 30 players for each team. Evaluation up 20 rounds for the Swiss system; Automatic and semi-automatic pairing according to:

Swiss FIDE Dutch,
Swiss USCF,
Olympiad system,
ECU system,
single and double Round Robin.
Manual pairing.
Evaluation of results (1-0, 1/2, 0-1, 0-0, forfeited, adjourned games, etc...).
Facility to change data (results, names, ratings etc.).
Import players from any formatted database.
Management of withdrawals and re-entries of teams.
Output of pairing lists, reports, cross-tables, lists of players standings, etc…
Generates web content of the tournament results.
search FIDE norm and print certificate.
Fully integrated with the publishing site Vegaresult;

VegaTeam (team tournament)

It administers scholastics or team tournament where power and limited options are not important. The Italian Chess Federation uses it in championship with almost 1000 players distributed in 6 sections.