Recent Changes/Bug Reports

Version 11.36 (5/28/2023)
• 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.

Version 11.35 (5/15/2023)
• 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.

Version 11.34 (5/1/2023)
• Fix for reading ChessHub files in version 10 format.

Version 11.33 (4/24/2023)
• Contact information updated with change to new SwissSys host.

Version 11.32 (4/17/2023)
• 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.

Version 11.31 (11/22/2023)
• 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.

Version 11.3 (3/5/2023)
• *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.

Version 11.27 (2/17/2023)
• 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.

Version 11.26 (2/1/2023)
• Cancelling a registration could lead to other players being duplicated.

Version 11.25 (1/29/2023)
• 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.

Version 11.24 (1/17/2023)
• 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.

Version 11.23 (12/18/2022)
• 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.

Version 11.22 (11/26/2022)
• 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.

Version 11.21 (11/10/2-22)
• 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.

Version 11.2 (10/27/2022)
• 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.

Version 11.18 (10/12/2022)
• Head-to-head tiebreak was off for round robins.
• Team pairings for current section did not list board numbers.

Version 11.17 (10/6/2022)
• Option to toggle backup saving was getting reset automatically.
• Reading version 10 format files did not load all teams.

Version 11.16 (9/28/2022)
• 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.

Version 11.15 (9/25/2022)
• 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.

Version 11.13 (9/19/2022)
• 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.

Version 11.12 (9/1/2022)
• New feature: FTP uploads
• Merges needed a check on duplicate section names and updating of user-set merged file names.

Version 11.11 (8/26/2022)
• 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.

Version 11.1 (8/17/2022)
• 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.

Version 10.52 (11/26/2022)
• Output for Events page uploads was listing player handles twice.

Version 10.51 (6/16/2022)
• Norms adjusted so that FM and WFM titled opponents counted towards the minimum required.
• Events page prize listings incorrect in some sections.

Version 10.5 (6/6/2022)
• 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.