Recent changes and bug reports

Recent Changes/Bug Reports

Added a feature to clear player ratings.
Pairing fixed-roster teams by game points rather than match points was broken.

Fide-Only version did not force Fide default mode as it should.
Name format for club list imports made more consistent.
Browse button added to tournament setup dialog.
Rating formula choice was getting reset to the default under certain conditions.

NACH report listed round robin pairings based on current Crenshaw table setting, not the one actually used.
Set typical USCF tiebreaks was opting for median rather than the preferred modified median.
Creation of FIDE rating report could generate improper WDL characters when rating games flagged originally as
too fast to rate.

Player titles made alphabetical listings out of order.
Original colors of forfeited games now encoded with the file.
Setting typical USCF tiebreaks loaded incorrect tiebreak strings.

Added player titles to Events page reports.
Option to display class in standings report was disabled.
Renumbering boards in the pair chart would skip a board if black player had a reserved board.

New: Support for all the expanded FIDE tiebreak systems.
New: Ability to display prizes for all sections at once.
Fewer restrictions now on characters that can be used in section names and tournament titles.
Chess.com imports tweaked to allow for blank lines and misplaced tiebreak columns.
Board numbers for forced pairings in the pairings setup dialog were reset when AutoSave was turned on..
Added bye message to NAChess report.

Club list was not importing birthdate.
Support added for different Windows taskbar locations to avoid small main window.

Zebra striping option added for the screen view of wall chart and standings.
Multi-view pairings board numbers were not being refreshed consistently.
Html table width setting of Auto was not being remembered.
On some systems the Save As selection did not present a save dialog.

Forced pairings and byes selected in the pairings setup dialog were getting cleared.

Warnings provided when saving files to OneDrive or DropBox.
Added a check on corrupted data that caused a range check error upon startup.
Fixed-roster pairings sometimes changed from the initial pairings when seating players by table.
Fixed-roster columns would not stay hidden when requested.

When registering players one-at-a-time from a custom database, zero-point byes were not being imported.
Move player dialog not sorted alphabetically.
Initial directory set more logically for file open operations.
New feature: User-set labeling for Age/Grade column.

Accelerated pairings were not removing byes before setting pairing groups.
Saving immediately after deleting a player caused the deletion to be forgotten.
Fixed problem with modal window sometimes disappearing behind another window.
New feature: Added straight median tiebreak and revised default USCF tiebreaks.
New feature: Allow merging between rounds.

Berger round robin table setting was getting reset to Crenshaw.
NACH web report creator was omitting prizes.
Added feature to allow for adjusting the screen height when maximized.

Important fix for double-blitz style: Blitz results entered in double-entry mode were not updating the player scores immediately.
Database was not automatically initialized upon a call to import players from a text list of ID numbers.
Exporting to html with CSS was ignoring the font size if auto-sizing of the table was not selected.

Fixed two tiebreak order issues for the Events page.
Charts are now updated immediately after using the roster to make changes.
Task launcher could freeze if long filenames were the same when abbreviated.

Tweak for board order so that higher rated players are not moved down.
Fixed form size issue for pair chart.
Original tournament title was not retained when importing a section from another tournament.
Fixed-roster web reports were skipping the individual listing when created in team mode.

Alphabetical pairings for blitz style were not showing board numbers.
Forfeited results in blitz style DoubleEntryMode were not displayed correctly.

Automatic backup saves were mistakenly flagging the tournament as officially saved.
Fix for NACH reporting of double round robins. [Check on IsBergerRoundRobin resets
Dump to Excel was greyed out until first round pairings were made.

Reserve byes were not being reset under FIDE pairings, which could cause pairings to abort. (Versions 11.36-
11.4).
Uploads of SwissSys files to NACH corrected.

Back by popular demand: Enter both results in double-blitz style with a single click.
NACH hub improvement: Upload SwissSys file with the report.
In rounds not yet played, standings were not showing "H" for reserved half point byes.
Renaming sections from the Tournament Setup dialog changed the display but not the listing in memory.
Overriding the FIDE accelerated pairings rule was being ignored.

Renaming from the Tournament Setup dialog could rename the wrong section.
Range check error when opening the program with 6 tiebreaks set.
Two fixes for uploads to the NACH hub.
After a double forfeit the "Delete All" option was only deleting the first player listed.
Reload of player info from Tinker dialog was not updating blank expiration dates.
Deleting players before the start of the tournament caused a range check error.

Important: Load of settings failed if the maximums of 6 tiebreak choices was set.
USCF rating report in standings order was listing forfeited opponents incorrectly.
Player place in the standings was incorrectly indexed for the NACH report.

Fix for reading ChessHub files in version 10 format.

Contact information updated with change to new SwissSys host.

Pairing logic could fail if one of the sections was not legally pairable.
Improved flow with default folder option - Choice of last-used or current tournament folder.
Including pairing information with emails did not list the board numbers.
Support added for DGT format of PGN game headers.

Added check on name length for Fide pairings.
Updating ratings from custom databases failed if a player had no ID number.
Save backups every time pairings are made.
Important: Fix for "Access Error" when switching sections in pair chart.

*Important fix for fixed-roster events: Switching teams in the pair chart was not updating the individual opponents.
The reported count of available players was off.

Duplicating a player after the tournament has begun could insert them into the new pair chart mistakenly.
Using the undo menu after a change to a fixed-roster result in the Results Editor mixed up teams and players in
the wall chart.
Updating player data from database failed to update some data.

Cancelling a registration could lead to other players being duplicated.

Mixing round robin and Swiss could lead to failure to exit a section.
Timing and memory overwrite issue: Now backups are no longer saved automatically after certain operations.
Improved check on duplicate players when loading a club list.
Individual-team ratings were listed incorrectly on the Events page.

Titles are now case insensitive for ranking purposes.
Combined view now can combine sections despite presence of unfinished rounds.
Bucholtz Cut tiebreaks were not compensating correctly for unplayed games.
Range error withdrawing players when the option to clear reserved byes was disabled.

Loading from USCF database might alter the class indication.
Naming of sections after cloning a tournament was not consistent.
Exporting pair chart to html was not saving text with expected utf-8 encoding.
Refreshing the combined sections view was appending players rather than overwriting.
Cloning a tournament and clearing old players could give an access error when switching sections.
Club lists were being expanded unnecessarily when they were updated.
Events page: Master List omitted some fields.

New feature: Option to save to older .tmt file with all sections saved at once for backwards compatibility.
New feature: Check on provisional rating added for Update Ratings from Database command.
Editing of Registration list did not pull up the selected players or duplicated the player.
Alphabetical pairings for round robins could fail for a round with an odd number of players.
Cancellation of tiebreak changes was being ignored.

Problem reading archived files from version 6 and older.
Writing to dtf with round-by-round results included was truncating the final result character.
The flag to mark pre-merge sections as non FIDE-rateable was missing.

Reload of provisional ratings listed a "p" that was flagged as an invalid rating.
Quebec numeric format and ANSI-formatted names caused FIDE pairings to abort.
New Features:
Added edit capability to the Tournament-at-a-Glance dialog.
Option to use ID2 and Rating2 in rating reports.
Option to include the Rating2 in the standings listing.
Improved naming convention for backup files.
Fixed-roster board orders are now updated automatically when a new player is added.
Added contact information to prize reports.

Head-to-head tiebreak was off for round robins.
Team pairings for current section did not list board numbers.

Option to toggle backup saving was getting reset automatically.
Reading version 10 format files did not load all teams.

Rating formula was not being remembered.
Ratings not updated immediately after a rating formula change.
Rating ranges added to prize setup printout.
Toggling team-based mode was broken in version 11.15.

Pair chart flagged some players as having byes incorrectly.
Class trophy prizes were listed twice.
More helpful error messages.
Automatic backups saved only from the main view.

More helpful error when attempting to use an out-of-date database index file.
Changing round robin to Swiss format was not clearing board assignments.
Ladder rankings were not saved to new file format properly.

New feature: FTP uploads
Merges needed a check on duplicate section names and updating of user-set merged file names.

USCF Rating report for blitz style was not doubling the number of rounds.
Spaced round robin blitz format could cause range check error and fail to pair.

Important: In FIDE mode, a second full point bye could be assigned after a reload of the file.
Web report could omit columns if the current section didn't need them.

Output for Events page uploads was listing player handles twice.

Norms adjusted so that FM and WFM titled opponents counted towards the minimum required.
Events page prize listings incorrect in some sections.

Support for revised Events page uploads.
Allow read of fixed-roster club to import to the current section.
Prize distribution bug with Irregular class prizes.
Allow blank column headers in Excel databases.
Rarely, modified random pairings could give a rematch.
Task Launcher was sometimes not showing in the foreground.