Swiss Manager Training Seminar Overview

This seminar covers the essential steps to utilize Swiss-Manager for individual Swiss System Tournaments, along with skills applicable to various tournament formats at different levels. It explores the features of Swiss-Manager, installation process, licensing, creating tournaments, player management, publishing to Chess-Results, pairings, results, and advanced functionalities for tournament management.

• Swiss Manager
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• Chess Results
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• Training

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1. ECF Arbiter Workshop SWISS-MANAGER TRAINING SEMINAR

2. Scope This seminar will cover the necessary steps to use Swiss-Manager (and Chess-Results.com) for An individual Swiss System Tournament many of the skills are applicable to Round Robin Tournaments and Team Tournaments Local, National and International Levels

3. Swiss-Manager spricht Deutsch Swiss-Manager is a piece of software created by Heinz Herzog, an Austrian player We are going to download and use the English language version Some of the error messages and other messages appear only in German, and have not been translated into English Some of the phrases used in the menus are English translations of German, and as a result are not ideal descriptors of what can be contained within A number of people have made suggestions over the years which have been bolted on; as a result, the software is not as pure as it used to be!

4. Installing Swiss-Manager Go to https://swiss-manager.at/download.aspx?lan=1 lan=1 at the end of the URL means the webpage will be in English Download Swiss-Manager Unicode Version for Windows 7 and newer (11.01.2020, Build 13.0.1.61, Filegr e 5.168.128) note the version build changes regularly, and was accurate at the time of writing this slide!

5. Installing the Licence Key When you download the software for the first time, the Demo licence will be installed. For this course, the englishchessfederation licence must be used. For security, uploading to Chess-Results will be restricted to this licence key. Open Swiss-Manager, and go to Other -> Install. Click Display Conditions for Use. Then click Accept Conditions for Use. Then you can put in the licence key and press OK. The licence key is: XKU97059FYT25SP

6. Topics 1 Create a Tournament 2 Enter Players & Late Entries (including Update Players) 3 Exclusions 4 Publishing to Chess-Results (including Customise Lists) 5 Pairings and Results (including presentation) 6 Set New Player 7 Link tournaments on Chess-Results 8 PGN Upload to Chess-Results 9 Generate Title Norm Reports (arbiter, player) 10 Advanced Features (e.g. namecards, rating/grading, update data)

7. Install Rating and Grading Lists Click Import Rating List Appears twice on this screen, both get you to the right place!

8. Rating List Import Rating Lists can be imported from FIDE and a number of Federations For this Seminar, add the FIDE and ENG lists by dropping the menu and Selecting the list Data validity can be anything to help you identify the file/date of the rating list

9. Lists Installed! This shows that the lists have successfully been installed.