Short: Chess tournament manager (Swiss pairing) Author: jochen.wiedmann@zdv.uni-tuebingen.de Uploader: jochen wiedmann zdv uni-tuebingen de Type: game/board Architecture: generic TITLE Chaos - The Chess HAppening Organisation System VERSION 5.5 AUTHOR Jochen Wiedmann E-Mail: jochen.wiedmann@zdv.uni-tuebingen.de DESCRIPTION Chaos is a program that manages single-player chess-tournaments. It offers different pairing modes: Swiss pairing (Less rounds than players) and Round Robin (same number of rounds than players), either FIDE system or Shift system. It's interface is written with MUI, see NEW FEATURES below. Available output (to printer, screen or file): - List of players (short or long) - Results - Table (all players or special groups, juniors for example) - Table of progress aor Cross Tables (all games of all rounds) - Internal ratings and German DWZ (close to USCF-rating or ELO) Localizing (default language is english) Limitations: - Number of players limited by RAM (2 KBytes and additional 100 Bytes Stack per player suggested) Enhanced possibilities: - Setting games (Swiss pairing only) - ARexx port - User configurable menu (allows to execute ARexx scripts from the menu) NEW FEATURES Swiss pairing algorithm completely rewritten, fixes some problems with the old algorithm. Fixed some problems with the new menu handling of MUI 2 and later. Added the possibility to determine the number of points one gets for win and draw. (Example: 3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw) Fixed minor bugs SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS AmigaOS 2.0 or later MUI, V2.0 or later (available on Aminet, dev/gui) Installer (available on Aminet, util/misc) AVAILABILITY Aminet, for example ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/pub/aminet/Chaos5_5bin.lha ftp://ftp.uni-paderborn.de/pub/aminet/Chaos5_5bin.lha Internet chess servers, for example ftp://chess.onenet.net/pub/chess/Amiga/Chaos5_5bin.lha Distribution consists of two archives: Chaos5_5bin.lha Binaries Chaos5_5src.lha Sources DISTRIBUTABILITY Freely distributable, Copyright by the author, subject to the GNU General Public License.