Managing Tournaments
Creating a Tournament
Once you’ve created an Event, you can add one or more Tournaments to it. From the navigation menu, click Tournaments to open the Tournaments page, then click the Create Tournament button.
| ID | A unique identifier for the tournament, used for URLs and internally by Sharly Chess. |
| Name | A user-friendly name used for display purposes (e.g. on Screens). |
| Rounds | The number of rounds in the tournament. |
| Rating | The rating type of the tournament — Standard, Rapid, or Blitz. |
| Start/End | The tournament’s start and end dates (overrides the event-level values). |
| Location | The location of the tournament (overrides the event-level value). |
| Directory | Directory where the Papi file will be stored (overrides the event-level value). |
| Filename | The name of the Papi file. If it doesn’t exist yet, you can have Sharly Chess create it for you by clicking the option to create the file. |
| Time control and increment | The clock time control and increment for each round. |
| Illegal move recording | Enables tracking of illegal moves per player. You can define a maximum here (overrides the event-level value). |
| Rules file location | A link to the tournament rules document (overrides the event-level value). |
| Max byes | The maximum number of byes a player may request. |
| Nb. final rounds without byes | Number of final rounds in which byes are not permitted. |
Plugins may add extra fields to the tournament form depending on their functionality.
Tournament options
Once you’ve created a tournament it’s displayed on the Tournaments page. Each tournament has a number of options that can be accessed, such as:
- The ability to edit the fields set during creation
- The ability to download it in various formats (including TRF)
- Updating the player information from the latest database versions provided by the FIDE or local federation
- Duplication and deletion