Player norms

Sharly Chess now offers many features you will not find on any other Tournament Handling Program.

• A new document to get a summary of norms achieved, or a forecast of norms that can be achieved for the final round
• New options to the norm document for the number of rounds and the event type
• Detailed calculations for the norm report to allow for easy validation
• Automatic removal of specific played games in order to try to fulfil the norm requirements
• Support for norm exemption 1.4.2c (last round forfeit as loss)

TRF26 import/export

Sharly Chess is now fully compatible with TRF26 (Tournament Report File) format, for individual competitions.

Custom team ranking documents

You can now print team ranking documents on individual tournaments by specifying:

• the way to build the teams (club, federation, FFE league, FRA school)
• the number of players per team
• optionally a minimal number of men/women and a maximum number of teams per club/federation/…

👉 Check out the full changelog for other new features and improvements.

We hope you’ll appreciate this new version, as always feel free to share any feedback on Discord, by email (support@sharly-chess.com), or on GitHub.

Check-in

It is now possible to handle player presence outside of a designated check-in period, making it easier to handle late arrivals or players leaving.

The Check-in / Results entry screens have been split into distinct screen types.

Criteria

Tournament and prize criteria have been made more accessible.

• For tournaments, criteria are now integrated to the form
• For prizes, the most used criteria can now be created directly from the category form

Tie-breaks

Tie-breaks have been updated to match the latest changes of the FIDE Handbook.

It includes 3 new tie-breaks (STD, TPN, RTNG) and changes to Buchholz and Sonneborn-Berger.

Creating tie-breaks has also been simplified, as it is now possible to save your favorite tie-breaks into sets which can be re-used across multiple events.

Sharly-Chess.com

A lot of improvements have also been done to our registration platform Sharly-Chess.com:

• Player check-in
• Tournament and tariff criteria
• French school competitions are now taken into account as soon as the players register

All the new features are synchronized with version 4.1 of the Sharly Chess application.

👉 Check out the full changelog for all the details.

We hope you’ll appreciate this new version, as always feel free to share any feedback on Discord, by email (support@sharly-chess.com), or on GitHub.

• create your account on the Stripe platform
• link your Stripe account to the Sharly-Chess.com platform

• create your first free event on the Sharly-Chess.com platform
• synchronize Sharly Chess software with the Sharly-Chess.com platform

Registration Platform Sharly-Chess.com

This new platform is the result of several months of development and is already being used successfully by a number of clubs.

Unlike general-purpose payment solutions, Sharly-Chess.com is built specifically for chess competitions.

Seamlessly integrated with the Sharly Chess arbitration software, it simplifies the work of organizers and arbiters, saving valuable time when preparing events.

Players also benefit from a growing set of online features, including live results tracking and pairing notifications.

The platform is now live — you can explore it here:

• Access the platform
• Explore its features

Sharly Chess Arbitration Software

Version 4.0 of Sharly Chess also introduces several features requested by the community, including:

• Smoother navigation with keyboard shortcuts;
• Definition of round schedules, exported to Chess-Results.com and of course Sharly-Chess.com;
• Improved automatic uploading of pairings and results;
• Flatpak packaging for Linux: replacing AppImage with Flatpak improves compatibility with many more Linux distributions, which will delight arbiters who prefer using a free operating system.

👉 Discover the other improvements in the full changelog.

As always, your feedback is welcome on Discord, by email (support@sharly-chess.com), or on GitHub.

PS: Thanks and welcome to Arun, Gilles, and Lucas for their contributions!

Four distinct issues have been identified that disrupt the order of the boards on the FFE website:

• manual pairing and complementary pairings
• alphabetical sorting of compound names
• incorrect handling of acceleration groups
• changes to player ratings after round 4

You will discover the reasons for these display differences in the video below.

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).

• Download the Sharly Chess event of the video

This new version brings many user-requested features to streamline event management.

Importing/Exporting Events

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.

Importing Players in CSV Format

It is possible to import players in bulk using a CSV file.

Player Distribution in Tournaments

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.

Removing Unpaired Players

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).

Improvement to the Crosstable Document

Hovering over player now displays their history.

Pairing Engine Version Update

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.