VinczeSwiss - freeware program for pairing by the Swiss-system

VinczeSwiss - freeware program for pairing by the Swiss-system

As for organisation of (chess) tournaments with Swiss system, many computer programs are paid. That's why I decided to create a free program.

program name	VinczeSwiss
author	Ing. Roman Vincze (e-mail: vincze@ji.cz) FIDE LiChess Chess.com (1) Chess.com (2)
program purpose	pairing program for chess tournaments with Swiss system (and not only for chess tournaments!)
program version	1.14
build version	1.14.012
license	freeware
price	-
for operating systems	Microsoft Windows (95/98/ME/NT4.0/2000/XP/Vista/7/8/10/11) Linux (using Wine)
language support	Czech English (since 24.12.2019) German (since 29.02.2020) Italian (since 29.02.2020) Russian (since 9.09.2020) Slovak (since 29.10.2020) Spanish (since 30.11.2020) Vietnamese (since 8.08.2023) Hungarian (since 10.09.2023) French (since 14.06.2024)
download	vinswiss.zip (733 kB)

Some program features:

The VinczeSwiss program has been developed in Delphi 5 Professional.
The VinczeSwiss program is not (for now?) FIDE certified, but can be used now for tournaments without sending to ELO.
The VinczeSwiss program has its own (recursive) pairing function, but can also use the external pairing engine JaVaFo.jar.
When using JaVaFo.jar, the VinczeSwiss program is fully compatible with FIDE pairing rules!
The VinczeSwiss program supports importing and exporting TRF files. The TRF file format is described in the FIDE documentation.
The VinczeSwiss program allow accelerated pairings too.
Limits: The number of rounds is not limited. The number of players in tournament is limited to 2000. I can increase this value at any time (by recompiling the program), to any higher value (but then the program would have a slightly higher memory requirement and would be a bit slower).
There is no need to install the program (just unzip the file vinswiss.zip and run vinswiss.exe).
The VinczeSwiss program has reports (starting list, final ranking, ...) in HTML format for easy publishing on the internet.
The VinczeSwiss program can also be used for non-chess tournaments (it is possible to turn on the (non-chess) field - score (goals / sets / hits)).
The VinczeSwiss program can also be downloaded from the website of the chess club Jiskra Havlickuv Brod (Czech Republic).
More information about the VinczeSwiss program is in the file english_documentation.htm (in package vinswiss.zip).

If you like the program, you can also help: The VinczeSwiss program is designed for easy adding of other languages. Language files are located in the Language subdirectory. For example, if some Swede make translation of content of file english.txt into Swedish, then the program VinczeSwiss will communicate with users also in Swedish. If this Swede sends me the above Swedish translation (as swedish.txt), that translation will be part of the next build of VinczeSwiss program. Translation rules: It should be translated by native speaker of the language. He/She should be a chess player with knowledge of chess terminology. Will you help?

Offer for programmers:
Now, VinczeSwiss is freeware. But if you will translate english.txt into your native language, you can get the source code of VinczeSwiss. Once more: that doesn't mean, that VinczeSwiss is open source! Only translators have this option.
The VinczeSwiss program has been developed in Delphi 5 Professional (Pascal language). Everything inside the source code is in English (variable names, function names, programming commentary) and code is easy to read. The code has approximately 9300 lines - I've given it 276 hours of time so far.

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You can also find the VinczeSwiss program here:
   VinczeSwiss on Softpedia.com
   Discussion about VinczeSwiss program on LiChess.org
   VinczeSwiss on sachy-hb.cz