In the video below (in French), you will discover how to use Sharly Chess’s non-monetary prizes to award qualifying spots for the French Youth Championship in regional tournaments (or qualifying spots for the regional championship in departmental tournaments).
]]>This new version brings many user-requested features to streamline event management.
It is possible to import events from the application (Home > Create an Event > Import an SCE File), and exporting data in SCE format has been promoted to avoid the data loss encountered with other formats.
It is possible to import players in bulk using a CSV file.
Before the start of an event’s tournaments, it is possible to distribute players into tournaments based on their rating, either manually or automatically (Tournaments tab > Distribute Players).
This feature will be particularly appreciated by organizers of events with by-level tournaments, allowing for very quick tournament setup as soon as check-in is complete.
Previously, removing unpaired players (for example, before upload them online) was done individually on the Players tab.
This can now be done all at once (Tournaments tab > Actions > Remove Unpaired Players).
Hovering over player now displays their history.
The bbpPairings engine has been updated to version 6, bringing Sharly Chess into compliance with recent changes to the FIDE Handbook.
👉 Check out the full changelog for all the details.
As always, we welcome your feedback on Discord, by email (support@sharly-chess.com), or on GitHub.
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Note: the “Print” menu has been renamed “Documents,” as documents are rarely printed (one of Sharly Chess’s goals is to minimize printing).
Several features have been added, and the user experience has been significantly improved.
Player updates are now done by FFE license number, by FIDE ID (new), and then by name and date of birth, making it easier to add the license numbers of unlicensed players at the time of competition (very useful for school competitions).
Pre-filled license certificates are now available in the “Documents” menu, along with most FFE forms.
A new prize type called hybrid allows you to specify both monetary and non-monetary prizes (trophies, cups, medals, prizes in kind, etc.).
Archived events can now be deleted from the web interface, without accessing the file system.
Options on the screens now allow you to display a maximum number of players with minimal information (board number and color), particularly suited to youth competitions where players are often confused by detailed displays (and not just young players!).
👉 Check out the full changelog for all the details.
As always, we welcome your feedback on Discord, by email (support@sharly-chess.com), or on GitHub.
]]>To meet the needs of organisers of events that don’t use the standard FIDE age categories, it’s now possible to configure the age categories that will be used by your event. Different configurations can be used on an ad-hoc basis, but you can also create category sets that you can re-use easily for future events too.
Age categories can now be calculated using a configurable reference date. By doing so, players remain in the age category they had on that date instead of being reclassified based on the tournament date. This is particularly useful for long-running championships, where a player might otherwise change category partway through the competition.
To facilitate event sharing, it is now possible to export events, specifying whether or not to include players, their personal data (email and phone number), and the credentials used to publish results online.
To meet the needs expressed by some organizers, prize receipts allow for recording the collection of prizes from players.
Browser abusive translations have been reported (even including player names!), so browsers are now asked to stop translating interface content.
The timer management interface has been simplified, and timers now appear on the rotators.
Linux bundles are now available for Intel/AMD and ARM architectures.
Beta testers have reported successful installations on Ubuntu and Mint (details, but we are still far from a stable and fully supported distribution for all Linux platforms. The Sharly Chess developers are unable to provide support for this aspect and are looking for Linux experts. Get in touch!
A “State” field has been added to the Chess-Results export for some federations.
👉 Check out the full changelog for all the details.
As always, we welcome your feedback on Discord, by email (support@sharly-chess.com), or on GitHub.
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You can now print place cards directly from Sharly Chess. Three types are available:
Basic templates are included, and you can also design your own (details)!
A new plugin is available to help manage French school competitions. It adds an easy way to record each player’s school, and automatically exports this as the club name when generating Papi files.
The Staff tab has been enhanced so that roles can be assigned to staff members. In particular, you can now designate the chief arbiter and deputy arbiters for specific tournaments. This information is included in your exports (TRF, Chess-Results.com, etc.).
It’s also now possible to add organiser information to Events. The information is included when exporting to Chess-Results.com.
👉 Check out the full changelog for all the details.
As always, we welcome your feedback on Discord, by email (support@sharly-chess.com), or on GitHub.
]]>The competition saw the achievement of a first player norm in a tournament managed from start to finish by Sharly Chess (International Master norm for Louis VALLÉE)!
Une occasion en or pour tester la nouvelle fonctionnalité d’impression des normes de joueur de Sharly Chess, introduite en version 3.2 :
And let’s also congratulate Sammy PLAT on his first International Arbiter norm, he’s also one of the developers of Sharly Chess in his spare time ;-)
]]>The remaining limitations that had previously restricted Sharly Chess to use in France have now been removed:
:information_source: FIDE and national ratings: for tournaments hosted in France, the FFE plug-in ensures that you continue to get the familiar behaviour regarding player ratings. If a player has a FIDE rating, it will always take precedence over their national rating.
:information_source: Tie-breaks not supported by Papi: Tie-breaks not supported by Papi can not be displayed on the website of the French Federation but the rankings displayed on the federal website are strictly consistent with those of Sharly Chess.
And we didn’t stop there — several great new features have also been added:
With the release of version 3.2, we’re ready to begin the FIDE endorsement process!
If you’d like to see Sharly Chess offer federation-specific features for your country, please contact your national chess federation to express your interest.
👉 Check out the full changelog for all the details.
As always, we welcome your feedback on Discord, by email (support@sharly-chess.com), or on GitHub.
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tools/chessevent.bat script)Check out the full changelog for all the details.
As always, we welcome your feedback on Discord, by email (support@sharly-chess.com), or on GitHub.
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The competition was managed using a beta version of Sharly Chess 3.1, tested in a full-scale real-world setting.
9 rounds at a time control of 12 minutes plus 3 seconds per move were played using an accelerated Swiss system for the Brittany Championship, and a round-robin format for the “Little Pawns“ tournament welcoming young beginners.
Thanks to the simplified alphabetical display of pairings and players entering their own results, the day’s schedule was kept perfectly on track: first round at 9:45am and prize-giving wrapped up by 5pm!
Sharly Chess was pushed to the limit, with almost every available feature being used — especially the new features introduced in versions 3.0 and 3.1.
The delegation was organized as follows:
The “Little Pawns“, who were for many experiencing their very first competition, also entered their own results independently, without any difficulty.
Many prizes were awarded to participants, some of which could be combined:
Prize calculation is always a sensitive moment in tournament management: it must be error-free and quick so the awards can be handed out as early as possible. Thanks to Sharly Chess’s comprehensive prize management interface, four sets of prizes, partly combinable, were created, and prize allocation was calculated by Sharly Chess as soon as the final round ended, then passed to the treasurer to prepare the checks for the winners.
The network configuration used was as follows:
With the exception of the Sharly Chess server on Windows 11, all other computers used were very old machines (10–20 years) running a minimal operating system (Linux Mint) and a web browser connected to the server.
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The tournament, fully managed with Sharly Chess, led to the awarding of a FIDE Arbiter norm to Stéphane LABORDE — a first!
A big thank you to Stéphane (one of the very first users of Papi-web) for trusting Sharly Chess, and to chief arbiter Patrice CAPITANIO, whom we’re confident will soon join the Sharly Chess community.
The setup was as follows:
The Wi-Fi relay router allowed:
Everything ran extremely fast and smoothly.
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