Short: Chess tournament manager (Swiss pairing)
Type: game/think
Uploader: wiedmann@mailserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de
Author: wiedmann@mailserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de


TITLE

     Chaos - The Chess HAppening Organisation System

VERSION

     5.2

AUTHOR

     Jochen Wiedmann

     E-Mail: wiedmann@mailserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de

DESCRIPTION

     Chaos is a program that manages single-player chess-tournaments using a
     font-adaptive full-Intuition-GUI created using MUI. This is an update to
     version 5.1a. See CHANGES below.

     Available pairing modes are:
	- Swiss pairing
	- Round Robin (FIDE-System)
	- Round Robin (Shift-System)

     Available output (to printer, screen or file):
	- List of players (short or long)
	- Results
	- Table (all players or special groups, juniors for example)
	- Table of progress aor Cross Tables (all games of all rounds)
        - Internal ratings and German DWZ (close to USCF-rating or ELO)

     Localizing (default language is english)

     Limitations:
	- Number of players limited by RAM (2 KBytes and additional 100 Bytes
	  Stack per player suggested)

CHANGES
     - GUI created with MUI instead of GadToolsBox
     - AREXX port (full control from AREXX scripts, can be run as a batch
       program)
     - possibility to set games (swiss pairing only)
     - importing players from previous tournaments (possiblity to use a 
       player database)

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

     Commodore Amiga running
     Kickstart/Workbench 2.0 or later

     MUI, V1.3 or later

     (Commodere Installer)

HOST NAME

     FTP/Internet: AmiNet (ftp.wustl.edu) and mirrors
                   chess.uoknor.edu and mirrors

DIRECTORY

     pub/aminet/game/think (Aminet)
     pub/chess/Amiga (chess.uoknor.edu)

FILE NAMES

     Chaos5_2bin.lha
     Chaos5_2src.lha

DISTRIBUTABILITY

     Freely distributable, Copyright by the author, subject to the GNU
     General Public License.