Finally, it's here: TournamentService is ready in version 6.01 ! 

TournamentService (TS) has eased, yes almost removed, the  "office work" for chess arbiters for 20 years!! Finally, with version 6.0, it's available internationally, introducing multiple language support.

"Why TS? We're used to SwissPerfect / Protos / Swiss-chess / whatever.."

- Because many of the competitors seem be stuck in the past with virtually no developments. TS is a modern, user-friendly and well designed application, still under continuous development and improvement. In addition to state-of-the-art tournament management, you will get automatic web publishing - for free! But don't take our word for all this,  download a demo version today and have a look at all the glory! Or, browse the help system here.

Among our users are approved FIDE international arbiters, Federal rating officers,  national championship organisers and many more. This is a few comments from some of them:

- So powerful it is almost scary!

- The ability to publish each game as they are completed is just...delicious!

-  Power to the people!

- [TS] saves me incredible amounts of time. Wonderful!

- I thought everything had room for improvement. But now I'm starting to wonder... This is ubelievable.

- Brilliant!

- Thanks a lot for a great progam. It's really of enormous importance for the  national chess-life.

- This is becoming a fantastic tool.

- Great work!

- The PGN publishing is brilliant!

- Is there a Chess Oscar to which we can nominate you..?

- A pure enjoyment to use

 - You have made a formidable program!

- Gosh! This was nice!

- Oh my, it's so fun to play with the team series now.

- It does everything!

- You've  thought of everything... you're a genious!

- Thanks for all help!

- I have this sensation of happiness...!

- We are extremely satisfied by TS6. Thanks a lot for a splendid job!

Guys, this is almost too much <blush> But thanks anyway ;-)

• Thoroughly tested! TS has been used in the norwegian federal championship every year since 1990, and version 6.0 has been used in large international tournaments and team events. TS will NOT give you any nasty surprises during your tournaments!
• Pending FIDE approval! TS is currently entering phase 3 in FIDE's endorsement process, conducted by the FIDE swiss pairing comittee chairman, Christian Krause. 
• Automatic internet publishing! All tournaments managed by TS can be published on the dedicated TS web server with a click of the mouse.
• Appealing, modern and feature rich user interface with multiple windows for groups, teams, participants etc.
• Support for team events with all available pairing systems - also in several pairing groups or classes.
• Player entry is  assisted by the FIDE or national memberlists, automatically retreiving the player's data such as rating, ID-number and name.
• Automatic pairing number assignment, either random, seeded or according to standard swiss rules.
• Supports lots of pairing systems: FIDE Swiss, Round robin, Cup, Monrad, Carousel, Konrad ...and a handful more.
• Prints standings, Pairing lists, Boardcards w/history, ratingreports, avanced analysis, "best board" prizing etc.
• The arbiter has full control over which tiebreak criterias are the basis for standings and pairings.
• A number of template tournaments are included to ease definiton of time controls, ranking, groups etc.
• All reports can be exported to file choosing from a number of file formats:  RTF,  HTML, PDF or pure text documents for integration with word processing, bulletins and custom WEB pages, displaying Standings reports and more.
• Supports PGN game databases! This will make clickable links from the standings report, allowing the public to view the games on the internet..
• Support for FIDE ratingreporting. A wizard helps you though the process and delivers the report directly via the internet!
• Strong, 3-way integration with the FIDE ratinglists. One-click rating reporting!
• A new, open and self-documenting file format has been created, based on industri-standard XML - can be opened in any text editor, excel or Internet explorer. This makes integration with external software and tools possible.
• Complete information about your tournament is included in this file: FIDE-titles, arbiters, team captains, time controls etc.
• No "stupid" limitations: unlimited number of rounds, participants, teams, groups etc. 
• Compatible with all windows-versions, from 95 to Vista. Aslo tested under Linux (Ubuntu with wine).

Latest developments:

With the launch of version 6.01 we once again have epoch-making news: Automatic internet publishing! All TS-users now get access to their own corner of the internet where they may publish their events. There, the tournaments automagically gets a welcome/invitation page, support for online signup via the internet, continous round bulletins, continously updated results, games for viewing from the net  - and then some. All this in multiple languages.

This functionality has until now only been achievable for the largest and most resource-rich tournaments, requiring a dedicated staff for web-maintenance and programming. Even then, it has been lots of hard work to get such level of service for the public. Well, those days are over! With TS 6.01 even small clubs, arbiters and tournaments can be made public in a very professional way with a click of the mouse! All this is of course powered by TournamentService, no effort or knowledge is required of the arbiter.

Tournament calendar and database

As a bonus, every time a tournament is published with this system, it is added to a common public database, where the public can search for tournaments or players. The database is both a result-server during the tournament, a calendar and signup portal for upcoming events, and a historic archive long after the tournament is finished! 

I want to try this!

How do I get started? Easy, read about the procedure here and  download and install the latest version today.