Great questions! I'd love to help edit the more user-friendly guide.

Two things that we do that help a lot are to (1) make a cheat sheet of the
four or five most common commands and stick it on the terminal. That way
there's no leafing through the manual when you need to correct a score or
print the ratings, and (2) make two color-coded lists of all the player
numbers sorted by player last name and player first name to help
troubleshoot misreported player numbers.

Although I wasn't at my best this past weekend at BAT, I did have time to
notice once again how smoothly things ran with John Chew at the computer.
The pictures of each player on the pairings is a terrific feature, if only
to know for sure if your opponent is male or female!

I'd also like a feature that gives a player's history, similar to the ones
on cross-tables.com - number of rated tournament games played would be
particularly helpful so that I know when I'm playing a relative newcomer who
might need some hand-holding on the rules of play.

Just some random thoughts :-)

kath.


On 4/18/07 6:36 PM, "Stewart Holden" <stewart@...> wrote:

> I've emailed John with some random points and queries but thought I'd
> share some more with the group, in case others benefit at all. Some of
> these are aimed mainly at John, others are more general queries. I am
> eventually planning to write an Idiot's Guide to running events using
> the program; it will be UK-oriented but others are welcome to use any
> part of it when it's done.

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Kath Mullholand
Greenland, NH 03840
http://home.comcast.net/~kathnh/tourney