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
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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.
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