{"id":1538,"date":"2019-09-12T08:29:14","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T12:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chesstt.org\/home\/?p=1538"},"modified":"2019-09-12T08:35:27","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T12:35:27","slug":"introduction-to-swiss-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chesstt.org\/home\/introduction-to-swiss-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to Swiss Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For club administrators and arbiters\/helpers who do tournament management and have used Swiss Manager before or at least are quick learners when it comes to using new software.<br><br>\n\nDate: Saturday 14th September &#8211; 2:00 pm &#8211; 3:30 pm<br>Venue: Cascadia Hotel and Conference Centre in St. Anns.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Topics:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Introduction to Swiss Manager <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Review of the FIDE tournament file<\/li><li>The chess-results.com website infrastructure<\/li><li>How to setup the tournament<\/li><li>Downloading FIDE ratings<\/li><li>Ways to enter the players<\/li><li>Updating players info and ratings (k factor)<\/li><li>Pairings and checking pairings<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Rating Officer responsibilities<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Summary presentation of the FRS site<\/li><li>What is required for registering a tournament<\/li><li>The TTCA Rating Request Form for club administrators to request registration of a FIDE tournament<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<div id=\"vfb-form-32\" class=\"visual-form-builder-container\"><form id=\"introductory-swiss-manager-32\" class=\"visual-form-builder vfb-form-32 \" method=\"post\" enctype=\"multipart\/form-data\">\n\t  \t<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"form_id\" value=\"32\" \/><fieldset class=\"vfb-fieldset vfb-fieldset-1 participants-information \" id=\"item-vfb-619\"><div class=\"vfb-legend\"><h3>Participant&#039;s Information<\/h3><\/div><ul class=\"vfb-section vfb-section-1\"><li class=\"vfb-item vfb-item-text   vfb-left-third\" id=\"item-vfb-620\"><label for=\"vfb-620\" class=\"vfb-desc\">Participant&#039;s First Name  <span class=\"vfb-required-asterisk\">*<\/span><\/label><input type=\"text\" name=\"vfb-620\" id=\"vfb-620\" value=\"\" class=\"vfb-text  vfb-medium  required  \" \/><\/li><li class=\"vfb-item vfb-item-text   vfb-right-third\" id=\"item-vfb-622\"><label for=\"vfb-622\" class=\"vfb-desc\">Participant&#039;s Surname  <span class=\"vfb-required-asterisk\">*<\/span><\/label><input type=\"text\" name=\"vfb-622\" id=\"vfb-622\" value=\"\" class=\"vfb-text  vfb-medium  required  \" \/><\/li><li class=\"vfb-item vfb-item-radio  \" id=\"item-vfb-621\"><label class=\"vfb-desc\">Player&#039;s Gender  <span class=\"vfb-required-asterisk\">*<\/span><\/label><div><span class=\"vfb-span\"><input type=\"radio\" name=\"vfb-621\" id=\"vfb-621-1\" value=\"Male\" class=\"vfb-radio  required \" \/><label for=\"vfb-621-1\" class=\"vfb-choice\">Male<\/label><\/span><span class=\"vfb-span\"><input type=\"radio\" name=\"vfb-621\" id=\"vfb-621-2\" value=\"Female\" class=\"vfb-radio  required \" \/><label for=\"vfb-621-2\" class=\"vfb-choice\">Female<\/label><\/span><div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/div><\/li><li class=\"vfb-item vfb-item-date  \" id=\"item-vfb-626\"><label for=\"vfb-626\" class=\"vfb-desc\">Player&#039;s Date of Birth (enter yyyy\/mm\/dd)  <span class=\"vfb-required-asterisk\">*<\/span><\/label><input type=\"text\" name=\"vfb-626\" id=\"vfb-626\" value=\"\" class=\"vfb-text vfb-date-picker  vfb-medium  required \" data-dp-dateFormat=\"yy\/mm\/dd\" \/><\/li><li class=\"vfb-item vfb-item-number  \" id=\"item-vfb-627\"><label for=\"vfb-627\" class=\"vfb-desc\">FIDE ID if Available <\/label><input type=\"text\" name=\"vfb-627\" id=\"vfb-627\" value=\"\" class=\"vfb-text  vfb-medium   digits \" \/><\/li><li class=\"vfb-item vfb-item-text  \" id=\"item-vfb-629\"><label for=\"vfb-629\" class=\"vfb-desc\">School\/Occupation  <span class=\"vfb-required-asterisk\">*<\/span><\/label><input type=\"text\" name=\"vfb-629\" id=\"vfb-629\" value=\"\" class=\"vfb-text  vfb-medium  required  \" \/><\/li><li class=\"vfb-item vfb-item-text  \" id=\"item-vfb-630\"><label for=\"vfb-630\" class=\"vfb-desc\">Chess Club <\/label><input type=\"text\" name=\"vfb-630\" id=\"vfb-630\" value=\"\" class=\"vfb-text  vfb-medium   \" \/><\/li><li class=\"vfb-item vfb-item-text  \" id=\"item-vfb-623\"><label for=\"vfb-623\" class=\"vfb-desc\">Residential Area (eg. 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Date: Saturday 14th September &#8211; 2:00 pm &#8211; 3:30 pmVenue: Cascadia Hotel and Conference Centre in St. Anns. Topics: Introduction to Swiss Manager Review of the FIDE<a class=\"sup-readmore\" href=\"http:\/\/chesstt.org\/home\/introduction-to-swiss-manager\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-events"],"better_featured_image":null,"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chesstt.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chesstt.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chesstt.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chesstt.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chesstt.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1538"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/chesstt.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1547,"href":"http:\/\/chesstt.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions\/1547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chesstt.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chesstt.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chesstt.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}