Appendix P: Generic Tournament Description File
The user needs to fill in the form (some data are the defaults and cannot be changed at this point)
Press Done to confirm and save the file tournamentname-city.tdf in the tournament folder.
The format of the tdf file is similar to the FIDE rating report. But it has two more columns
regarding the national player code and the national rating. The fields are separate by “|” instead of
being fixed length. Each row begins with a three digit code specific of some kind of data. Some
rows may be absent. Empty rows should be skipped.
The file has two main sections. One regarding the whole tournament, and another with the history
of each player. Here is the tournament section.
012 Tournament name
022 City
032 Federation
042 Date of start
052 Date of end
062 Number of players
072 Number of FIDE rated players
082 Number of teams (in case of a team tournament)
092 Pairing system (default is swiss system)
102 Chief Arbiter
112 Deputy Chief Arbiter(s)
122 Allotted times per moves/game
132 dates of the rounds (YYYY/MM/DD) separated by “;'
142 points for game in format: W.W D.D
respectively for victory and draw. Default is 1.0 0.5
152 current round
162 total number of rounds
172 used tye-breaks code separated by “;”
182 name of the accelerated system if used
192 Program used for pairing
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