Pair Chart Submenu

The Pair Chart dialog has its own extensive submenu which you can use to control some aspects of this dialog’s operation.

Repair Selection, Repair Everyone

(Not available in FIDE mode)

After making changes to the previous round’s pair chart as described above, you can repair either a selected range of players or repair everyone.

To repair only a selection, highlight it by clicking and dragging the mouse, and then choose the Chart | Repair selection menu option.

The selected pairings will be reworked in light of any changes you made to the previous round’s results.

This is handy for those common situations in which all games for the previous round are finished except one or two, and you want to do some hypothetical pairings to get at least some of the games started.

When the stragglers finally do finish their games, don’t forget to update the previous round’s pair chart again and do any necessary repairing.

Erase All Results

Use this with caution, because it will do just what it says: Erase all results for this round.

Show Replacement Players List

Display or hide the list of players available for adding to the pair chart.

Confirm Result Changes

If checked, you will hear a beep and receive a prompt whenever you change a result that you have already entered.

Some tournament directors use a double-checking system of entering white’s result on the white side, then doing the same for black on the black side. If the results differ, the beep tells you there may be a mistaken entry.

Adjourn/Update

This lets you adjourn games and update previously-adjourned games.

In USCF mode, adjournments are handled with the Kashdan system and you will be asked for the results that players are aiming at. (They will be paired in the next round accordingly.) In FIDE mode, all adjournments are treated as draws until you update the results.

Either way, the update adjournments menu selection takes you to the Update dialog which works along the same lines as the Pair Chart dialog but displays only adjourned games. Key in the final results here.

Renumber Boards

If in the process of forcing or rearranging boards you get the list out of whack you can reset the board numbers with this button.

It lets you renumber a selected board or all the boards from your selected pair on down. If you have specified any forced boards, these will be left untouched by the sequential renumbering that follows.

Pairing Logic

This lets you view the decisions SwissSys made in constructing the pairings.

See Pairing logic for more details.

Check Integrity

If you have trouble entering results for a particular pairing, then it is possible that somehow your SwissSys file has become corrupted. If you type a “W” to give a player a win, for instance, and nothing at all happens, the program is having trouble reconciling conflicting information somewhere along the line.

Use the “Check integrity” menu command to work around this problem. SwissSys will look for errors in the pairing and correct them. In all but the most extreme cases of data corruption you should then be able to proceed normally.

Show All Quad Rounds

Use this to save paper when printing out pairings for quad tournaments.

Print Signature Sheets

Use this feature to print out a short results entry form to hand out to players or leave at their tables.

It provides a space for their name (or signature if you don’t include the printed name) and a result to circle. It may cut down on the annoyance of unreported or improperly reported results.

Inspect FIDE Pairing Engine Input/Output

This option allows you to view the data that is fed into the FIDE pairing engine and the raw output that the engine produces.

It is included here for the purpose of verifying the integrity of the pairing engine and its handling in SwissSys.

The input is a file in valid tournament report format (.trf) generated by SwissSys. The output is simply a listing of the number of pairs made followed by the pairings themselves.