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That's good to know, but my Mac is owned by my company and I'm not allowed to install Wine. I'd like to try it but some software installs are restricted.

That's a fair point about arbiters usually travelling in packs -- certainly true at Frome Congress! It's good to know that Swiss Manager can pull the tournament back down from chess-results itself if another copy is running. My own angle on this is a bit different, though: I use a Mac, and Swiss Man...

I wrote a small Python tool that hands you a tournament's data in a form you can work with: standings, or a full per-player history — who each player met, what colour, whether they floated or took a bye — as a command-line report, a printable pairing sheet, or JSON. pip install chess-results $ chess...

David Gilbert wrote: Mark Leonard's Westbury Wanderers top score with 91 - move up lots of places! Is he a Yeovil supporter?

Certainly not! Although my clubs appear to be stealing some of their better (chess) players.

Thanks for posting this, Lara.
Any chance of the Soanes results? (The prizewinners if nothing else.)
A club-mate was playing so I'm keen to know how he got on.

I'm intrigued to know why some players (nine in round 1 and one in round 2) received a "Draw by default" in the Soanes (U150) weekender. Isn't it just the way that particular pairing and results program handles a half point bye? Thanks. Because one player was also separately listed as having a bye ...

I'm intrigued to know why some players (nine in round 1 and one in round 2) received a "Draw by default" in the Soanes (U150) weekender.
Can anyone satisfy my curiosity (in this regard)?

Surely Charlie Storey didn't just win that game?

Why couldn't you go back to the previous January (when calculating January grades)?
That would give you a rolling "previous 12 months grade", which sounds fine to me.

I'm only a weak player but I can analyse with a computer and it seems to me that 47.a5 would be pretty good for White. Isn't this a case where the outside passed pawns are harder to stop than Black's connected centralised pair? You must have thought so when you played 45.b4! (Oh, on preview someone ...

...suppose a player plays 30 games between July and December, performing at 140. They then play 29 games between January and, say, May, performing at 160. If they play no more games before the grading cut off then their grade will be 150 (and a little bit). But if they can just play one more game, ...

Consider a player who plays 40 games a year. Because of the count-back method the 10 games he plays immediately before the end of the cut off period will be counted twice in calculating his grade (i.e. in January and July) whereas the other 10 games will be used just once. I'm assuming that your ex...

What is the status of this SOAP interface?
I can access the test server (e.g. to fetch a list of club names), but I'm not getting any results back for individual players.
If this was put live can you provide the URL/URI?

I can see the games (top boards only) in Internet Explorer but not Firefox. I think the same thing happened last year and was quickly fixed (once reported).

Alexander Hardwick wrote:The site claims that the code is not valid to join a league. Does this mean that it has been discontinued? Or is this temporary?

The league owner/administrator has to renew the league and then the website will issue a new code.
You cannot use last year's code for the coming season.