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Here the rating officer-Admin can maintenance all necessary tables for the rating calculation. To be able to change the tables it is neccessary to login on chess-results.com (with the Login button), so that he gets the necessary authorisations. However, as guest users most of the tables can be seen. There are the following sub-menus:

  • General: This page.
  • Rating-Dates NAT: Here the national rating-dates can be shown/inserted/changed/deleted.
  • Rating-Dates FIDE: Here the FIDE rating-dates can be shown/inserted/changed/deleted.
  • Rating-Corrections: Here the national ratings can be changed manually. May be needed if a player is saved twice.
  • Rating-Parameters: Here some parameters for the rating calculation can be shown/inserted/changed/deleted.
  • Clubs: Here the clubs can be shown/inserted/changed/deleted.
  • Fusion Players: Here players who are twice stored can be merged again. I.e. one player is deleted.
  • Rating-Calculation: Here the Elorechnung can be started (also for older periods) manually. The rating calculation (preview) ordinarily runs daily automatically at night.

How to handle the Dominican Republic rating calcultaion with Swiss-Manager and Chess-Results.Com?


Before starting of a rated tournament (in chronological sequence)

  • The organiser of the tournamnt entered at least the tournament-data and round-dates (Swiss-Manager menu "Input/Dates...") and upload the tournament to chess-results.com
  • After this, the organiser registerd the tournament for the rating calculation. (Swiss-Manager menu-item "Internet / register tournament for DOM rating"). The registration page on chess-results.com/DOM opens automatically in the internet browser and shows the data copied from the uploaded Swiss-Manager file. The "Rated Status NAT" is set to "Registered". If the "Rated Status NAT" is "Registered" then the organiser can change the registration-data if neccessary. No Login on chess-results,com is required. The "Rated Date NAT" is set to the next rating date after the end-date of the tournament. The "Rated Date FIDE" field is at the moment only an information.
  • If a tournament has more than one group (A, B, C or men and women) all groups must be registered.
  • The rating officer checks the entered data and if the conditions for rating are fulfilled (timecontrol,..), he set "Rated Status NAT" to "Previewed". Here a login to chess-results is required. In this state, the organiser can not longer change the data.

During the torunament

  • The organiser can (but must not) upload the tournament after every round to chess-results.com

After the tournament has finished (in chronological sequence)

  • The organiser uploads the ended tournament to chess-results.com
  • The rating officer login to chess-results, if he is not logged in.
  • The rating officer opens the registration page.
  • The rating officer clicks on the tournament name (only if he is logged in the tournament name is a link) and download the Swiss-Manager-File local to his computer.
  • The rating officer starts Swiss-Manager and opens the downloaded tournament.
  • The rating officer opens the "Input players dialog".
  • The rating officer activates the checkbox "online". Now additional buttons are visible:

    • DOM checkbox: If selected, a search request occurs to the current DOM rating list on chess-results.com/DOM(including (the local imported) Fide-rating list) .
    • FIDE checkbox: If selected, a search request occurs to the imported FIDE-rating list in Swiss-Manager.
    • Search: If a cell in the player grid is selected (Lastname, Firstname, ID, Birthdate, FIDE-ID are possible) the value of the selected field is searched in the selected ratinglists (DOM or FIDE or both)
    • Copy: Copies the ID-Number of the selected player in the rating grid to the selected player in the player grid.
    • Check: If a player has a FIDE-ID and no ID, the ID is assiged, if in the DOM-ratinglist the FIDE-ID is found. The entered names in the Swiss-Manager file are compared with the names in the DOM-Ratinglist on chess-results.com/DOM. If there is a difference it is displayed in an text-editor.
    • Insert: If the ID is not found in the DOM-player-database, the date from Swiss-Manager are inserted to the DOM-player-database. For players with no ID.
    • Release: Set the "Rated Status NAT" to rated.
    • Show: Shows the Registration dialog on chess-results.com/DOM for this tournament.

Example: Internacional Copa AES Dominicana 2010 tournament

  • The rating officer clicks the "Check" button:

    All 60 players had no ID. For 44 players the ID could be assiged over the FIDE-ID.
  • The rating officer clicks the column-name "ID-no", the column is sorted ascending. (A second click on the column and it is sorted decending).

  • 16 players has no ID-no. Now the rating officer clicks in the first row the lastname "Alvarez" and clicks then the button "search". Now in the rating grid all players beginning with "Alvarez" are displayed:

    The player Alvarez Tirso is selected. To search only in the national rating list, it is recommended to unselect the FIDE-checkbox. This is the player we looked for. If not the player we looked for is selected, the correct player must be selected. So the rating officer clicks the button "copy". The ID-no. 1041 is copied from the rating-grid to the player-grid. Now the rating officer clicks the button "search" again.
  • The next player "Becerra Rivero" is only found in the FIDE-rating list. And so on. The player "Vega Lemay" can also be found. 2 players are found in the rating list, 14 (all forein players) are not found in the national rating list. So the rating officer clicks the button "insert". After a confirmation 14 players are inserted into the Player-Database and the ID-numbers are automaticly assigned to the players. Now all players has an ID-no (Neccessary for the rating calculation).
  • The last check is to click the button "check" again:

    Now the names in the Swiss-Manager file and in the Player-Database are compaired. In this example the players seemed to be identical. If not, the correct ID-no. must be entered in SwissManager.
  • The rating officer uploads the tournament to chess-results.com.
    Important: To have the neccessary authorisation, the rating officer have to login (in Swiss-Manager) to chess-results.com with Swiss-Manager menu-item: Internet/Login on chess-results.com/DOM. Then the rating officer can upload all Swiss-Manager files from the Dominican Republic until 360 days after the tournament has finished. Ordinarily, the organizer can upload his tournaments till one week after the end.
  • The rating officer clicks the "Release" button:

    The "Rated Status NAT" is set to rated on chess-results.com/DOM.
  • With button "Show", the Torunament data can be checked on chess-results.com/DOM.
  • To check a tournament usually takes only a few minutes.
  • The rating-preview is calculated in the night.