details. The window will show the total score made by the player and his average rating
opponent with respect the FIDE and national rating. The bottom part of the windows show
the performance rating based on the actual score.
The required points represents the points necessary for a performance rating at least equal
to the rating threshold (set to 2600 in the previous picture). Together the required points are
indicated the points difference with respect the actual score. For example: “4.0 (+2.5)”
means that to get a 2600 rating performance the player needed 4.0 points, but he made +2.5
more than necessary.
By a mouse right click on the right column “Y/N” the user may decide which opponent enter
the calculation. The user can even change the opponents rating, for example in case he
wants to rise a rating to the rating floor for a specific threshold.
Then by pressing the button Calculate/Update he can redo the calculations. The user can
even change the opponents rating.
This panel is useful when are played more than 9 rounds and a player need to select only 9
of them to check if a norm has been done.
USCF: This generates the files used by USCF (USA) for rating reports (see Appendix O for
details).
FSI: This generates rating reports for the Italian chess federation (see the Italian version of this user
manual for detail).
ECF: generates rating reports for the English chess federation. (See Appendix H for details.)
DWZ: generates rating reports for the German chess federation.
The option Convert spieler.csv to utf8 transforms the file spieler.csv in the file newspieler.csv
encoded in utf8. The TD needs to import the players from this last file to preserve the accented
characters. The file spieler.csv should be downloaded from the site of the German federation.
NZCF: generates rating reports for the New Zealand chess federation.
Generic Tournament Description file: it is a general purpose rating report format. It is very
similar to the FIDE one but includes even national data (see Appendix P).
Import/Export XML Tournament Description: this represents the new way Vega will save its
tournament. At the moment this format is experimental but in future it will replace the veg file.
Rating report for other federations can be provided free of charge. Please contact the
author.
2.11 Special Tasks
2.11.1 Manual Pairing (not for the round-robin system)
Vega allows easy insertion of manual pairings. This is done by pressing the button Manual. The
pairing continues by filling in the fields labeled ‘White’ and ‘Black’, then pressing the button Add
Pair. The user can enter IDs with the mouse by selecting the players in the list at the top right of the
window. In this list the players are sorted by score, rating and name; it even shows their due color