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Kath wrote:

> 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.

(1) is a good idea, and I always prepare one for my data entry person
if that person is not me.

(2) is no longer necessary, as you can use player names wherever player
numbers are accepted by entering e.g. "Ch,Jo" rather than "1" when
John Chew forgets his player number.

> 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!

Thanks. Directors wanting to use this feature should contact me for
information about how to do so; it's not particularly easy to set up,
but I think it's worthwhile. You should also do a test run on your
printer to make sure that you can print acceptable quality photos
reasonably quickly - sorry for the delays at BAT.

> 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.

I'm dubious about this, but have added it to the bottom of the to-do list.
At some point, I'll teach tsh to fetch current ratings lists from online
sources, and it wouldn't be too hard at that point to at least get it to
tell you who hasn't played many tournament games.

John
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