Webinar on How to Run Chess Tournament with Swiss Manager (Asian Chess Federation)

The Asian Chess Federation is going to organize an on-line Webinar from 18/10/2025 to 19/10/2025.

Language: English

Lecturers: IA Casto Abundo (PHI) and IA Mehrdad Pahlevanzedah (IRI)

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Day 1 – Saturday, 18 October 2025

Time: 09:00–12:00 (Dubai Time)
Topic: Basic Functions to Run a Successful Tournament

 Session Outline:

• How to Run Swiss System Tournaments
• Introduction to Swiss Manager
• Swiss Manager Optimizations
• Setting up a Tournament
  • Swiss System, Round-Robin, & knockouts
• Inputting and Excluding Players
• Pairings and results input
• Uploading tournaments to chess-results.com
• How to make appropriate  output lists
• How to make name cards
• Basic troubleshooting and FAQs
• Q&A session

Day 2 – Sunday, 19 October 2025

Time: 09:00–12:00 (Dubai Time)
Topic: Advanced Features to Take Your Tournament to the Next Level

 Session Outline:

• How to Create Template for Entering Games by Chessbase
• New: How to Install Electronic Scoresheets
• Setting up a Tournament
  • Swiss System with Team Tiebreaks & Team formats
  • Double round robin
  • How to make Team Registration through chess-results.com
  • How to submit team line-up on chess-results.com
  • How to construct Pairing Tree
  • How to enter results online by tablets and mobiles
  • How to show all pairings on big screens
• Managing team tournaments
  • Board order, team compositions, tiebreaks
• Title norm and FIDE-rated event setups
• Multiple sections and merging events
• Game / Match Protocols for Teams
• Advanced uploading and editing on chess-results.com
• Tips and Tricks
• Practical Exam

Earn the title of Swiss Manager Expert User issued in cooperation with Heinz Herzog, Swiss Manager creator.