This is a tutorial on Swiss Manager - a FIDE approved software for managing Swiss, Round robin and team tournaments. After going through this tutorial, you should be able to conduct tournaments on your own using Swiss Manager. When I was conducting chess coaching in Bangalore, I used to use a software called for managing tournaments. Swiss Perfect is good in many aspects but it had very minimal options. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Recently, I had to conduct a few school selection tournaments. This time, I used a software called. It is way better than Swiss Perfect.

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Though it looks very similar, it has some handy options that are not found in Swiss perfect. This is Swiss Perfect Now look at Swiss Manager Even though many options are very similar. I found Swiss manager to be very user-friendly. I had to manage 6 tournaments at once.

Because in school selections there are 3 sections, boys and girls play as a different category. This was tough.

Until this point, I had conducted a maximum of 2 tournaments at once. This was a challenge. So I took it up and I did face some issues but nothing major.

Swiss Manager helped me successfully conduct those tournaments. Warning If you are using the demo version of Swiss Manager then the maximum number of players allowed is 60. How to conduct a tournament using Swiss Manager? I will explain step by step procedure on how to conduct a chess tournament using this software. I’m not explaining everything but I will try to cover what really matters. I hope you’ve already installed Swiss Manager on your computer. Step 1: Create a new tournament First thing is to create a new tournament.

In swiss manager the tournament file is stored as.TUN file. Give it some name and set the number of rounds. Step 2: Input players Input players by clicking on Input option as shown in the image. Mention name, rating, sex and other fields that you think is necessary for the tournament.

The order doesn’t matter. It will sort it alphabetically. You may have to click on manually input to insert names.

Input Rated Players If you want to insert players with official ratings, then use the option Name or code on the bottom right corner. But before this step, you have to make sure that the software has the latest player list downloaded. You can download it from the software. Go to Rating List » Update FIDE rating list » Update FIDE standard rating list. Once you click on it, you will see the following window. Now click on Start Import. It takes a while to download the whole list.

The software will show a text file which shows the number of players data downloaded. I’m not sure how we can get the USCF rating list.

If anyone is aware then please comment so that I can update the article. Once the download is complete, In the above image, I’m inserting Magnus Carlsen’s FIDE id with f prefix to get his details. Double click on the correct result and the player will be added to your tournament players. In this screenshot, I’m entering the name of the player to get a list of players. This might show too many results. But you will have to select the right one and double click on it. Step 3: Start pairing Once the player list is complete pairing should be done using the icon shown in the picture below.

Once you click that, you will see a window asking to input some options which you can choose if necessary. But I think for me it wasn’t required.

Click on Start. Step 4: Check pairing list See the pairing by clicking on this icon. You should see something like this. Step 5: Print out the pairing Once you click Print a pairing list pdf similar to the image is generated. Print this out on paper and hand it over to an arbiter. If you are the arbiter then ask players to refer to the pairing list. Players with their names on the left will play with white colored pieces.