Manual de Vega Chess 2016 | Page 3

1. Overview and Main Recommendations
Vega consists of two programs for the administration of a chess tournaments; Vega for individual
tournaments and VegaTeam for team tournaments. Vega has been designed in a way that reflects, as
closely as possible, the tasks of the arbiter or Tournament Director (TD) during a tournament: These
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Registration of players.
Pairing the next round.
Entering results for the current round.
Compiling the cross-table and other lists for display to the players.

During these steps some additional tasks are allowed such as managing withdrawals, printing
positions, data correction, etc… Vega monitors the user's activities and only offers permitted
functions at the proper time.
Vega includes the following functions:
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Registration of up to 999 players and the evaluation of 20 rounds for the Swiss system or
registration of up to 99 teams of 10 players each and the evaluation of 14 rounds. These limits
can be changed.
Registration of up to 24 players/teams for the round-robin system single and double.
Automatic pairing according to the Swiss system: FIDE Dubov (certified by FIDE), FIDE
Dutch (via JaVaFo engine © Roberto Ricca certified by FIDE), FIDE Lim, FIDE Burstein
(via BBP Pairings engine © Jeremy Bierema), Swiss USCF, Swiss based on Buchholz (Vega),
Amalfi,
Manual pairing.
Manual improvements to pairings.
Management of odd numbers of players.
Evaluation of results (1-0, 1/2, 0-1, 0-0, forfeited, adjourned games, etc...).
Administration of the cross-table.
Facility to change data (results, names, ratings etc.).
The import of players from any formatted database.
The export of players or an entire tournament.
Management of withdrawals and re-entries.
Entry of players arriving late during the tournament.
Output of pairing lists, reports, cross-tables, lists of players standing, etc…
Generates web content of the tournament results.
Prize distribution according to the Hort system.
Accelerated rounds up to three groups.
Platform support for both Windows and Linux.

Although Vega has been designed to be very intuitive and easy to use, it is recommended that the
user reads this manual and tries to simulate a few tournaments in order to learn all of its functions.
The user must have some knowledge of the rules of the Swiss system and its implementation in
Vega in order to properly manage pairing. There are occasions when manual pairing is required. The
Vega web site contains a screencast demonstrating specific tasks.

1.1 Document Conventions
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