Today we had a workshop on using Swiss Perfect, a windows pairing program for chess tournaments.
It went very well, and almost all of the six participants received hands-on experience with the program. We covered some of the difficult things such as importing ratings data from the CFC website, as well as handling bye requests, forced byes, and late entrants and withdrawals. The software ran very smoothly and I think everyone got something out of it.
Thanks to all who attended: Walter Watson, Jim Daniluk, Mark Cole, Stephan Vasilev, Bob Macfie, and Simon Ong. If you're at the club, and have trouble with Swiss Perfect, please ask one of these gentlemen for assistance.
I really appreciate Mark Cole giving me a ride to and from the workshop. We noticed at the last minute that we didn't have the projector and Mark was kind enough to drive home and pick it up. He really saved the day.
Juraj Pivovarov
Sunday, June 22, 2008
Friday, June 6, 2008
New Blog for Calgary Chess Club
Managing the news articles for the Calgary Chess Club has been a difficult task.
- It used to be done on the ACA website www.albertachess.org For various reasons, the new ACA website has not been as easy to work with as the old one.
- On the www.calgarychess.com website, it's hard to update and we haven't been keeping an archive of older messages.
- On http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/calgarychess, we've had complaints that you need a yahoo id, and on top of that there are very invasive ads.
A blog seems to solve many of these issues. It's very easy for the Chess Club Exec to keep it updated and is searchable and keeps an archive of older posts. And we can even add photos.
What are our plans for the blog?
The blog will be updated by club executives to keep the membership in the know on Calgary specific chess news. This includes tournament details, notifications of meetings, and general news. (the tournament schedule will still be available on the ACA website as well)
What are our plans for the other sites?
We will still try and keep our tournament schedule on the ACA website. The www.calgarychess.com website will mainly provide our location, hours and links to other sites. And finally, the yahoo groups site is still useful as a newsgroup for people to chat, coordinate rides to out of town events, and post games etc.
Welcome to the new Calgary Chess Club blog.
- It used to be done on the ACA website www.albertachess.org For various reasons, the new ACA website has not been as easy to work with as the old one.
- On the www.calgarychess.com website, it's hard to update and we haven't been keeping an archive of older messages.
- On http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/calgarychess, we've had complaints that you need a yahoo id, and on top of that there are very invasive ads.
A blog seems to solve many of these issues. It's very easy for the Chess Club Exec to keep it updated and is searchable and keeps an archive of older posts. And we can even add photos.
What are our plans for the blog?
The blog will be updated by club executives to keep the membership in the know on Calgary specific chess news. This includes tournament details, notifications of meetings, and general news. (the tournament schedule will still be available on the ACA website as well)
What are our plans for the other sites?
We will still try and keep our tournament schedule on the ACA website. The www.calgarychess.com website will mainly provide our location, hours and links to other sites. And finally, the yahoo groups site is still useful as a newsgroup for people to chat, coordinate rides to out of town events, and post games etc.
Welcome to the new Calgary Chess Club blog.
Thursday, June 5, 2008
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