The FFE Plugin

The FFE plugin provides functionality that’s useful for running tournaments associated with the French Chess Federation (the Fédération Française des Échecs).

:information_source: In the current version of Sharly Chess, the FFE plugin can’t yet be deactivated since it’s still coupled to the Papi file format, however this will change in a future version.

Enabling the plugin adds a number of a features to Sharly Chess:

  • The ability to define the tournament’s FFE certification number and password.
  • Automatically upload the tournament results to the FFE site.
  • Uploading of the tournament results to the FFE site.
  • Player search from the online database provided by the FFE.
  • Download and local search of the player database provided by the FFE.
  • Extra player information including the player’s FFE number and license status, and their league.
  • FFE specific tie-breaks calculations for compatibility with Papi and the tie-break calculations that are displayed on the FFE site.