Pairing and Club Management Software

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Avatar of ngl5000

Hi everyone!

Just curious what pairing, event management and club management software everyone is using here? Does Chess dot com offer any good tools? Our club is in Media PA and is about 9 months old. We have 100ish members and play mostly dual time control Swiss tournaments. We also have occasional quads and blitz events. Our club currently is only affiliated with US Chess. We have 3 TDs and have been using ChessNut.Club for the past 6 months after having some issues with Swiss Sys. 

Would also love to know what tournament formats or types of events you've been holding that members enjoy. We have toyed with some variants and with doing some pub chess. We've never run a ladder either but would consider it. Does anyone here report results to both US Chess and FIDE ? Is that easy?

Thanks!

Avatar of ClissoldJulian

We (Bolton UK) use Swiss manager but most of our competitive chess is organised through the Manchester Chess Federatio. We run a variety of teams of different strengths.

I am vey interested in any Club Management US Chess Clubs use and whether i is useful. So for instance members database, income, and social media.

Julian

Avatar of sahope

In Australia we usually use Vega pairings software for individual tournaments (swiss & round robin) & Orion (same developer) for team competitions.

Avatar of JuditSztaray

Hi @ngl5000,

In the US, there are two software programs that are standards: Swisssys and WinTD. Both of them cost money. These two produce rating reports that can easily be uploaded to the US Chess Federation and get the event rated.

Each country has one or a few of their own. I saw these in France and Hungary and heard about the Vega one.

If you have any problems with Swisssys, I'm happy to try to help. Chances are that I've seen it before

Avatar of JPLesChar

In Switzerland, the most common chess pairing software for official tournaments is the desktop paid version of Swiss Manager.
For small informal OTB internal tournaments of our club, I use the online free version of Chess Manager, which is more user-friendly.