Hey,
I like the idea of a "run-through" tournament. How would the final standings be calculated if there was an uneven number of games played?
Also, I cannot seem to get the program started in English. No matter what I click on first, it always comes up in dutch. Any help?
Hello everybody,
I've written a program to run scholastic chess tournaments. Its free for you to use. It is translated into Dutch, English and French.
The pairing system is simple but a little different of what we usually do in the club.It is different in a way that there are no rounds. Just pairings. Let me explain.
example: say you have 30 players playing chess. So you add them, make pairings and they play. After 10 minutes or so, 12 of the 30 players are already done.
You can't keep kids waiting for the rest of the games to finish, you want to put them at the board quickely.
With PairFX, you just select them and make new pairings. That's right,not every player will have the same amount of games played. But that's no problem. They can just keep playing. Players can join late, players can leave early.
You can order (and pair) players based on the number of points they have, but you can also base the complete system on percentage. That way a player who joined the tournament late can still compete at the top if he wins the same percentage of games as the strongest players. Of course there are some flaws to this system, but in practice it works great.
installation:
You need to install java (most of you probably already have this) , there is a link on the site.
Don't forget to UNZIP the program in a folder, otherwise it won't work. Then click on PAIRFX_EN for it to start in english or PAIRFX_Fr for french.
Who am I ? I'm a Belgian chess player and professional java developer. PairFx is good and future proof. I still work actively on it and some nice new features are coming up.
It is quit new, first release was december 2013.
http://mdconsulting.be/pairfx/index_eng.html
If you have question, don't hesitate to ask.
Enjoy!