Tournament Broadcast Guide - Part 6: Chess-Results, Delays, And Multiple Game Sources
In the previous part of this guide, we discussed the basics of using DGT LiveChess and Swiss Manager to provide accurate information about your event and its players. In this part, we’ll go over other topics that will take your event presentation to the next level.
Displaying Your Event On Chess-Results
Chess-Results is the world’s largest chess tournament data hub. To have your event on chess-results.com, you need to use Swiss Manager to set up your tournament.
As mentioned earlier in this guide, we strongly advise using Swiss Manager to manage your event and uploading the event information to Chess-Results. Our platform can use the information on Chess-Results to present your tournament nicely on our Events page.
Swiss Manager and Chess-Results allow us to:
- Display basic tournament information such as location, dates, format, and schedule (on our Info tab)
- Add a full list of pairings and results, including games that are not relayed live (on our Games tab)
- Correctly calculate the full standings of the tournament (on our Results tab)
- Compare game results from the live relay with those published on Chess-Results and make the necessary adjustments in case there are any discrepancies
- Automate parts of the broadcasting process to reduce manual intervention.
Events With Multiple Game Sources
Some events may require multiple game sources, like tournaments with a large number of DGT e-boards. You’ll need to provide us with links to all these sources, and we’ll combine them inside the same tournament on our Events page.
However, you’ll need to tell us in advance which tournament sections are included in each link (for example, link 1: boards 1-50, link 2: boards 51-end, and so on).
If you’re using LiveChess Cloud, you must generate a Cloud export output on every computer and send us all the links.
If you are uploading PGN files, the final combined file on each computer will be named “games.pgn.” Therefore, uploading all files to the same location is impossible as they will overwrite each other. In this case, the best option is to create subfolders (called “a,” “b,” and so on) inside the round folder on the “Remote” directory and then set up the FTP client of each computer to upload the file to the corresponding subfolder.
Adding Delay To Your Event's Broadcast
Adding a delay to the live transmission of games is a common preventative measure against cheating. Chess.com can support any delay you need.
While you can technically implement delay on your side and then share the delayed PGN files with us, there is no easy way to do it (DGT LiveChess Cloud doesn’t support this).
Instead, you can request a transmission delay, and we’ll implement it. We can provide you with a link for a delayed live PGN file, which you can share with anyone who wishes to broadcast your event.
Of course, we won’t share the live data links with anyone externally to ensure your data is safe.
This is the end of our Tournament Broadcast Guide. We hope you've found it helpful! If you have any questions or want us to cover other topics, please comment below, and we might add them to the guide in the future.
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