Hi.
This Friday, I tried to pair 20 players using Swiss Manager, but it excluded 3 of b them and so the arbiter was forced to do it via paper. What should I use for the following Friday?
Thanks
Pairing software
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Re: Pairing software
That's odd. Why did it exclude three of them?
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That was strange to me. Our female coach and Fide arbiter had assured me that Swiss Manager works for 5 rounds w/o needing a code, wile some other IA told me it works only for 4 rounds.
We had 20 players.
We had 20 players.
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Whether or not you had a code is irrelevant. Absence of the code does not make the program make random errors. The error in this case is almost certainly, actually scrub the "almost", a case of operator error. You pressed not one wrong button but several. The most likely explanation is that you marked 2 or 3 of the players as excluded for that round.
The intelligent thing to do before using a piece of software which has been flagged many times in this forum as difficult with an often counter-intuitive user interface, is to practice all the aspects that you are going to want to use for a real tournament. You obviously didn't do that.
The intelligent thing to do before using a piece of software which has been flagged many times in this forum as difficult with an often counter-intuitive user interface, is to practice all the aspects that you are going to want to use for a real tournament. You obviously didn't do that.
Ah, but I was so much older then. I'm younger than that now.
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Re: Pairing software
Swiss-Manager only works for 3 rounds without a code.