TITLE

Chaos - The Chess HAppening Organisation System

VERSION

5.4

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)

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_4bin.lha
ftp://ftp.uni-paderborn.de/pub/aminet/Chaos5_4bin.lha

Internet chess servers, for example

ftp://chess.onenet.net/pub/chess/Amiga/Chaos5_4bin.lha

Distribution consists of two archives:

Chaos5_4bin.lha Binaries
Chaos5_4src.lha Sources

DISTRIBUTABILITY

Freely distributable, Copyright by the author, subject to the GNU General Public License.