• Team competition management (a highly anticipated feature), allowing you to manage both individual and team events using a single tool. All team competition formats are supported: Swiss system, single and double round-robin, and the Molter system (supporting up to 25 teams, 12 players per team, and 24 rounds!), with rule sets tailored to specific FFE competitions (Jean-Claude Loubatière Cup, Mixed Cup, Women’s Interclub);
• Fully automated application updates, ensuring seamless data migration from previous versions;
• An improved web interface that is faster and more intuitive;
• Open and women FIDE titles can now be assigned to women, with both titles taken into account into norm reports;
• Enhanced management of fixed tables and prizes;
• Simplified screen creation, plus a new Chess 960 screen type that displays starting positions to the players;
• Additional features, such as the ability to upload all documents (player lists, pairings, ranking, etc.) to a custom server.

A beta version is already available online, and we are looking for testers to try out these new features. Feel free to contact us and join our Discord to get an early look at this new version, we look forward to assisting you!

In the meantime, you can go ahead and update Sharly Chess to version 4.2.7; this is an essential step for the upcoming transition to version 5.

We wish you a wonderful August and a great French Championship in Vichy if you are lucky enough to be participating, and we look forward to seeing you soon for the official release of Sharly Chess 5.0!

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