Managing Players

The player list, accessible via the Players item in the navigation menu, displays all players added to the Event — across all Tournaments.

You can sort and filter the table using the column headers, making it easy to manage large lists of participants.

Adding Players

Players can be added using the Add Player button.

While you can enter a player’s details manually, it’s often quicker and more reliable to use the FIDE database or a local federation database (provided via a plugin) to search and import existing player records. See the Player Databases section for more details on installing and using these databases.

The search can be narrowed with the filter button next to the search field: by federation, gender, age category and club (plus licence and league for FFE searches). The Use a tournament’s criteria button fills the filters in one go from the criteria of any tournament of the event — handy when registering players section by section.

Changing Tournaments and Teams

At the start of an event, it’s common for players to switch between tournaments — for example, from an Open section to an under 1600 Elo section. You can update a player’s tournament assignment directly from the Tournament field in the Players table.

In a team event the same table instead offers a Team field, so you can move a player from one team to another the same way.

Updating Players from the Latest Databases

To ensure player information — especially Elo ratings — is up to date, Sharly Chess allows you to sync your player list with the latest versions of your installed databases.

Click the Update Players button to choose which databases to use. If differences are found between your list and the database entries, you will be prompted to review and confirm any updates before applying them.