Swiss Perfect 98

Systems of Play
- Swiss
- Round Robin
Swiss Pairing Systems
- FIDE
- USCF
- Accelerated pairings
- Configurable options barred pairings
- Colourless pairing,
- Special rules for last round pairings (FIDE)
- Optional manual pairing
- Testing of manual or automatic pairings for formal correctness
- Verification of manual against Swiss Perfect automatic pairing
Round-robin Systems
- Standard
- Rutsch (carousel)
List of Participants
- Full support for late entries, withdrawals and pauses
- Ability to sort at any stage of the tournament (selectable sort criteria)
- Editable start numbers (don’t have to reflect the position on the starting list)
- Import from DBF and text files (including the FIDE Rating List)
Results and Scores
- One-touch results entry
- All possible single-game scores supported (1:0, =:=. 0:1, =:0, 0:=, 0:0, :-, -: , -:-)
- Multi-game scores (combination of single-game scores) eg. 4.5:1.5 if multi-games are configured as 6.
- Minor Scores (or secondary scores - to be used for example as match scores in team tournaments)
- Configurable tie-break criteria:
- Buchholz Median-Buchholz
- Berger
- Progress
- Opponents’ Rating Sum
- Number of Wins
- Minor Scores
- Brightwell
Ratings
- Two Elo-based rating systems for calculating international and national (local) rating performances, expected scores etc.
- Separate configurable options (upper and lower limits) for each system
Views, Printing and Print Preview
- Several different views of tournament data:
- List of Players
- Pairings and Round Results
- Standings
- Cross Table
- Ratings
- Pairing Info
- Individual Cards
- Ability to export (save) any of the views in a customisable text, HTML and ICS buffers format
- All views customisable (selectable columns and fonts)
- Configurable symbols for representing results in the cross table (for example W for a win, D for a draw and L for a loss)
- Configurable symbol representing a half point in Results and Standings Views Printing of each view (WYSIWYG)
- Print preview for each view (WYSIWYG)