TITLE

     Chaos - The Chess HAppening Organisation System


VERSION

     5.5


AUTHOR

     Jochen Wiedmann

     E-Mail: jochen.wiedmann@zdv.uni-tuebingen.de


DESCRIPTION

     Chaos is a program that manages single-player chess-tournaments.
     It offers different pairing modes: Swiss pairing (Less rounds
     than players) and Round Robin (same number of rounds than
     players), either FIDE system or Shift system.
     It's interface is written with MUI, see NEW FEATURES below.

     Available output (to printer, screen or file):
        - List of players (short or long)
        - Results
        - Table (all players or special groups, juniors for example)
        - Table of progress aor Cross Tables (all games of all rounds)
        - Internal ratings and German DWZ (close to USCF-rating or ELO)

     Localizing (default language is english)

     Limitations:
        - Number of players limited by RAM (2 KBytes and additional 100 Bytes
          Stack per player suggested)

     Enhanced possibilities:
        - Setting games (Swiss pairing only)
        - ARexx port
        - User configurable menu (allows to execute ARexx scripts from
          the menu)


NEW FEATURES

     Swiss pairing algorithm completely rewritten, fixes some problems
     with the old algorithm.

     Fixed some problems with the new menu handling of MUI 2 and later.

     Added the possibility to determine the number of points one gets
     for win and draw. (Example: 3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw)

     Fixed minor bugs


SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

     AmigaOS 2.0 or later

     MUI, V2.0 or later (available on Aminet, dev/gui)

     Installer (available on Aminet, util/misc)


AVAILABILITY


    Aminet, for example

        ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/pub/aminet/Chaos5_5bin.lha
        ftp://ftp.uni-paderborn.de/pub/aminet/Chaos5_5bin.lha

    Internet chess servers, for example

        ftp://chess.onenet.net/pub/chess/Amiga/Chaos5_5bin.lha


    Distribution consists of two archives:

        Chaos5_5bin.lha         Binaries
        Chaos5_5src.lha         Sources


DISTRIBUTABILITY

     Freely distributable, Copyright by the author, subject to the GNU
     General Public License.

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[generic]                  586     931  62.9% -lh5- 0d96 Mar 26  1995 chaos/Chaos.info
[generic]                 6993   17982  38.9% -lh5- dc3e Mar 26  1995 chaos/COPYING
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[generic]                  278     632  44.0% -lh5- d1b2 Mar 26  1995 chaos/doc.info
[generic]                28036   84630  33.1% -lh5- 9ecb May  9  1995 chaos/doc/Chaos_deutsch.guide
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[generic]                 4051   14207  28.5% -lh5- f80c Mar 26  1995 chaos/Install
[generic]                  317     556  57.0% -lh5- 980f May 23  1995 chaos/Install.Deutsch.info
[generic]                  317     556  57.0% -lh5- dd77 May 23  1995 chaos/Install.English.info
[generic]                  480     767  62.6% -lh5- 5c4c Mar 26  1995 chaos/ReadMe.mui
[generic]                  264     543  48.6% -lh5- 7ace Mar 26  1995 chaos/ReadMe.mui.info
[generic]                  206     265  77.7% -lh5- 05be Mar 26  1995 chaos/rexx/ChaosWindowOff.rexx
[generic]                  204     263  77.6% -lh5- bb60 Mar 26  1995 chaos/rexx/ChaosWindowOn.rexx
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[generic]                  288     444  64.9% -lh5- 3e3a Mar 26  1995 chaos/rexx/SaveTournament.rexx
[generic]                 1938    5810  33.4% -lh5- 98f9 Mar 26  1995 chaos/rexx/UpdateRatings.rexx
[generic]                   90     116  77.6% -lh5- 198b Mar 26  1995 chaos/s/Chaos_Menu
[generic]                  321     646  49.7% -lh5- 29f1 Mar 26  1995 chaos/s/Chaos_Project.info
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