VinczeSwiss - the new FREEWARE program for swiss pairing - help me please with the translation • page 1/2 • General Chess Discussion • lichess.org

RomanVincze

Hi, all.

My name is Roman Vincze. I play chess (ratings.fide.com/profile/324906) and I'm also a programmer.

As for tournaments with swiss system, all computer programs are paid. That's why I decided to create a freeware program (REALLY free (as Lichess)). Name of my program is VinczeSwiss. The VinczeSwiss program is available for download at: http://sachy-hb.cz/vinczeswiss/

The VinczeSwiss program is not (for now?) FIDE certified, but can be used now for tournaments without sending to ELO. The VinczeSwiss program has its own (recursive) pairing function, but can also use the external pairing engine JaVaFo.jar. When using JaVaFo.jar, the VinczeSwiss program is fully compatible with FIDE pairing rules! Languages of VinczeSwiss program: now only English and Czech (in package www.zzsvysocina.cz/download/vinswiss.zip, there are files english.txt and czech.txt).

If you will like the VinczeSwiss program, I would like to ask you:
would a some chess player and a native speaker translate file english.txt into another language (German, Spanish, French ... ...)?

Can you use program VinczeSwiss and send me your opinion / feedback/ ideas?

IM lovlas

Afaik you don't need a FIDE endorsement to rate your tournaments. You could do it manually as long as you follow the proper system.

IM lovlas

On an entirely different note. Have you considered opensourcing it? The chess world desparately needs a good chess manager. Makint it opensource would undoubetly be good for the chess community.

kajoM

If it's supposed to be REALLY free as Lichess, then where do I access the source code?

RomanVincze

> lovlas
> You could do it manually

Yes, I can also pair swiss manually - on paper cards (on the table).

> lovlas
> Have you considered opensourcing it?
>
> kajoM
> where do I access the source code?

Program VinczeSwiss has been developed in Delphi 5 Professional. The development environment is quite old (1999) - that's because I'm not buying licenses for newer and newer Delphi.

Now, VinczeSwiss is freeware. But I programmed it for (possibly in the future) to be open source. Everything inside the source code is in English (variable names, function names, programming commentary) and code is easy to read. The code has approximately 6500 lines - I've given it 218 hours of time so far.

More information is (in package www.zzsvysocina.cz/download/vinswiss.zip) in file en_documentation.htm.

IM lovlas

I wasn't implying that your work wasn't needed since you could do it manually. Just that it might be usable for FIDE rated tournament. Not being endorsed doesn't afaik automatically disqualify you from rating the games.

ChesswurmOTB

I took a look and I like it! I will use it for some of my own tournaments. The icons aren't the most intuitive, but the descriptions make up for it. The only big thing I'd change is when you register players and show the registration list is that it would sort players by rating (high to low) instead of who registered first. Thanks for making this available @RomanVincze

RomanVincze edited

> ChesswurmOTB
> registration list ... who registered first

This is not according to who registered first. It is sorted alphabetically - so that players (eg. on paper on the bulletin board) can check their registration (for the tournament).

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ChesswurmOTB

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@RomanVincze Got it, I only entered 4 players so it must have been a coincidence. I would still like to see different sort options though as many different tournaments/federations sort differently. Keep it up!