Be a chess tournament director using PDA
This would be of interest to those organising chess tournaments.
You know how tedious it is to carry a notebook as well as a printer to the tournament hall, not to mention the many chess sets and boards. Can’t do anything about the chess sets and boards but now you can do away with the notebook and heavy printer.
Swiss-46, an old DOS-based chess pairing program is still popular. You still see this being used in many Malaysian chess tournament and I’m sure also many tourneys around the world.
You can now run Swiss-46 on a PDA with Pocket-DOS. I ‘ve tried it out and it works! As you can see, Pocket-DOS is not free. It’s only the demo version but it has all the features except that there is some periodic ‘nag’ screen - which I can live with.
Here is Swiss-46 running on my Dell Axim X5 PDA:
The screenshot show the data from the recently concluded Selangor Open 2006. With a portable thermal printer which uses 2 or 4 AA batteries, the tournament organiser can truly be portable. He/she can take enter player’s data, make round pairings and printed hardcopies, as well as come out with the final results. You don’t even need an external power source as everything runs on batteries.
It’s a cool idea isn’t it 
… well only if you are an organiser..
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