Manual de Vega Chess 2016 | Page 84

From the point of view of a rating system, many of the previous rows are just useless and can be simply skipped if not needed. The reader can focus only for the rows of interest and be ready to continue to work even if some of the previous rows are absent or present and unwanted. The following is a real example with the data Vega saves each time (the comments are in red): 012 1 Torneo km zero Tournament name 022 Scalea Tournament place 032 ITA Host Federation 042 18/12/2009 Begin date 052 20/12/2009 End date 062 30 number of players 072 12 FIDE rated players 092 Individual: Swiss-System Dutch (JaVaFo) Pairing system 102 AF D'Alessandro Flavio Arbiter 112 an empty row 122 90 minutes + 30 s of increment for move Time point for win and draw 142 1.0 0.5 152 4 current round 162 9 Numbers of rounds 192 Vega 6.0.1 program name and version After the previous sections come the player section that is mandatory. Each row contains specific player data to permit his look-up in the FIDE and National database, and his tournament history as well. The row can be in any order although the one following the Startingrank-Number should be the preferred one. The row starts with the three digit code “001”, then a space delimits a record in which the fields are separated by the delimiter “|”. Startingrank-Number : 4 digit number sex : “m” or “w” (default is “m”) Title : max three characters Name : Lastname Firstname (max 30 characters) FIDE Rating : 4 digit number FIDE federation : 3 characters FIDE code : 12 digit number National Rating : 4 digit number National code : 12 characters Birth Date : 10 characters Points : in the form XX.X Tournament Rank : 4 digit number Round 1 : see below ................................................ Round last : see below Round Description At each round, a player can be paired or unpaired if he communicated his absence. Game with a pre-arranged half-point bye or any byed game are considered paired. An unpaired game is indicated by an empty or blanked string between the field delimiter “|”. So an unpaired game is indicated as: “||” or “| |” . A paired game maybe rated or unrated. A rated game consists of an opponent, a color, a result indicator. 84