NUF's 2nd Anniversary Celebration - Individual Chess | Page 2. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!! Chess Pairing Software For AndroidI'm late!!!! >.< Oh well, no use worrying too much about it, welcome to the individual chess celebration everyone! I'd usually try to make some random stuff and whatever as flavor, but I'll just get right to business this time. Oh, and.. If you don't know what this is about, please head to this thread: http: //forum. How will this work? We have 1. 2 people that signed up for the individual chess, so I guess we'll go with a points system. Chess in New Zealand. Registering an event for FIDE rating. The following information is essential and should be provided to Michael Freeman at least one month. StChess - Software for chess tournament management and administration: Swiss system, Round robin, KO. I'll put people up in conversations to play against one another in completely random pairings at first, and as people lose/win, I'll be matching the winners with winners and losers with losers, and from that point on we'll go with bigger points with smaller points. According to my 1. Chess usually gives 1 point per win, 1/2 per draw and 0 per loss.. I don't like fractional numbers so we'll go with 2 per win, 1 per draw and 0 per loss. I'll be posting the completed matches on this thread btw, so you can use that to spy on your opponents playstyle if you have enough free time to do it~ If anyone will disappear, please warn me in advance, I'll either have to kick your registration to oblivion or try to find a substitute.. I'll try finding a substitute, but I can't guarantee anything. Okay, with the intro out of the way, let's get the fun started! I'll be setting up the conversations, please wait a bit! If I missed your registration, please tell me ASAP, you need to warn me about it before the first round is over! Schedule. We have from the 4th (5th.. September until the 1st of October to make this thing work out, we have time so you don't need to hurry too much on the matches, but don't exaggerate on the slow pace, okay? I can't start the 2nd round if the 1st isn't over for everyone. I'm planning on 4 rounds of matches, so that means you have about 1 week per game.. Please don't take longer than that! We might need a last round to define the winners!!! Prizes. 1st Place: 2,0. Place: 1,0. 00 nu£3rd Place: 5. Don't forget to bet on whom do you believe will win: http: //forum. Phew, I guess that's all, I hate doing things on a rush.. Oh well, it's entirely my fault anyway~ Have fun everyone! Christoph Gerlach Homepage. Impressum. Copyright © 2. Christoph Gerlach. Mac. Mahon 3. 7. 1. A pairing program for Go tournaments by Christoph Gerlach. This page contains information about the pairing program for Go tournaments that I wrote. Chess Pairing Software MacIt is also possible to download the current version of my program from here. Requires Java 8 to be installed on your system. Download. Key features: Running tournaments in the Mac. Mahon or Swiss System. Support mainly for Go but the program is useful for many other games as well that are played one- on- one like Chess, Shogi, Abalone, even table tennis, .. Best pairing algorithm. Fast and mathematically proven to be correct. World Computer Chess Championship (WCCC) is an annual event where computer chess engines compete against each other. The event is organized by the International. Home site of the Wachusett Chess Club, serving the Central New England chess community for over half a centiry. USCF (United States Chess Federation) & MACA. FIDE World Cup 2017 tiebreaks: Nail biting chess and true sportsmanship. Play chess online. Learn and improve by watching free instructional chess videos. Join daily tournaments and win prizes. ICC, the best chess site on the net! Easy creation of forced pairings. Unlimited number of participants. Unlimited number of rounds. Any operating system supported that has Java available on it (Windows, Linux, Mac, ..). Full support of east asian characters/unicode. Wide range of options to adjust the program to the needs of your tournament. Placement criteria. Adjustment of the walllist. Live connection to the European Go Database to select player data (Internet connection required). Importing player data from plain textfile. Querying participants by name. Opening tur- files from Mac. Mahon 1. 2 to Mac. Mahon 2. 5. 0. Exporting pairings and walllist to textfiles. Exporting tournament results for the European Go Database. Tournament data is saved as XML. Translated user interface (English, Italian), ready to support further languages. Very flexible operation: You can jump to any round you like and change whatever parameters you like. The program will immediately reflect this by recalculating all necessary values. Good printing support allowing to select font, fontsize, margins, .. Super Mac. Mahon group above the upper Mac. Mahon bar. Playing levels 3. Kyu - 8 Dan and 1 Pro - 1. Pro supported.. and many more. Download the current version and try yourself. System requirements: "Mac. Mahon" requires Java 8 (latest Java version is recommended) and will run on any computer that has Java, like Windows, Linux, Mac, .. I strongly recommend to only use the Oracle Java implementation with my program. Download: Version 3. Zip- Archive, released 2. KByte)Using conditions/Licence: This software is provided as is with no warranty. Licence is granted to use Mac. Mahon at tournaments of all kinds without charge. Anyway, if I attend your tournament you have to let me participate without charging me an entry fee for the tournament itself (not including costs for food, accomodation, ..). If you find my program usefull, you are welcome to make a donation to my Paypal account - -> with an amount chosen by you. Running Mac. Mahon: If you have Java installed properly, it's enough to double- click/execute the macmahon. File after extracting it from the downloaded zip- File. If your operation system does not support this or jar- Files are not yet registered with Java, consider to register jar- Files with the installed javaw. Mac. Mahon from a command line similar to: javaw. Documentation: References: Mac. Mahon is the most spread pairing program for Go tournaments in the world. It has a long history of being used in Europe and the new 3. Korean Baduk Association from 2. Pairing algorithm: The pairings are generated in two steps. The first evaluates the matches between each pair of players. The evaluation- function (cost- function) is equivalent to the Mac. Mahon- System (not exact in any case; e. Mac. Mahon- System, but this is more or less a theoretical result - I didn't find many examples for this in reality). This first step is more or less the same as in most of the other pairing programs. The second step is the optimization. And here the "maximum weight perfect matching algorithm" by Edmonds (invented at the end of the sixties) guarantees the optimum pairing according to the evaluation in the first step. The optimization algorithm is mathematically proved to be correct in any case. My thesis: The first version of Mac. Mahon was part of my thesis in computer science at the University of Hildesheim/Germany. Unfortunately my thesis is only availlable in German language. My thesis in PDF- Format (ca. KByte). You will need Acrobat Reader to view/print the file. In my thesis you will find a description of the Mac. Mahon- System and a detailed explanation of the optimization algorithm. Next Versions: There will be 3. Go tournaments. There will also be maintainance releases fixing bugs. Known Problems: None. Old 2. xx program: You can find the old program here. Contact me if you have questions/remarks about my program: Christoph Gerlach. In der Steinriede 3. Hannover. Germany. Tel.: +4. 9- 5. 11- 7. Last modified: 2.
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