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.

 PERMSSN    UID  GID    PACKED    SIZE  RATIO METHOD CRC     STAMP          NAME
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[generic]                 5617   21090  26.6% -lh5- c949 May  9  1995 chaos/src/ARexxAmi.c
[generic]                 7817   27211  28.7% -lh5- 5c2e May  9  1995 chaos/src/Chaos.cd
[generic]                 3796   12904  29.4% -lh5- 43c5 May  9  1995 chaos/src/chaos.h
[generic]                 5241   16688  31.4% -lh5- 58a8 May 10  1995 chaos/src/Chaos_Cat.c
[generic]                 3791   24172  15.7% -lh5- e842 May  9  1995 chaos/src/Chaos_Cat.h
[generic]                27252   74714  36.5% -lh5- 006f May  9  1995 chaos/src/Chaos_deutsch.texinfo
[generic]                23266   64209  36.2% -lh5- cd35 May  9  1995 chaos/src/Chaos_english.texinfo
[generic]                10469   32454  32.3% -lh5- 0b73 May  9  1995 chaos/src/Deutsch.ct
[generic]                 4225   18787  22.5% -lh5- eef8 May  9  1995 chaos/src/DWZtabs.c
[generic]                 1775    4559  38.9% -lh5- 7d44 Jun  5  1995 chaos/src/main.c
[generic]                 8702   41396  21.0% -lh5- 6709 Jun  5  1995 chaos/src/MainAmi.c
[generic]                 2502    6837  36.6% -lh5- 49b9 May  9  1995 chaos/src/Memory.c
[generic]                 7687   26419  29.1% -lh5- 87b7 May 10  1995 chaos/src/NewCatalog.ct
[generic]                 2206    5769  38.2% -lh5- 840f May  9  1995 chaos/src/NonAmiga.c
[generic]                 1215    2709  44.9% -lh5- 4f98 May  9  1995 chaos/src/NonAmiga.h
[generic]                 7266   29725  24.4% -lh5- 26b5 May  9  1995 chaos/src/Out.c
[generic]                 4221   11495  36.7% -lh5- e3f1 May  9  1995 chaos/src/OutAmi.c
[generic]                 3804   10049  37.9% -lh5- b551 May  9  1995 chaos/src/OutDWZ.c
[generic]                 6325   19847  31.9% -lh5- 06ed May  9  1995 chaos/src/Pairings.c
[generic]                 4797   15289  31.4% -lh5- 3be1 May  9  1995 chaos/src/PairingsAmi.c
[generic]                 4092   13779  29.7% -lh5- 6e06 May  9  1995 chaos/src/Players.c
[generic]                 6029   25529  23.6% -lh5- 2261 May  9  1995 chaos/src/PlayersAmi.c
[generic]                 2406    5340  45.1% -lh5- b86f Mar 26  1995 chaos/src/PORTING
[generic]                 3277    9774  33.5% -lh5- 1a2f May  9  1995 chaos/src/Project.c
[generic]                 4194   12338  34.0% -lh5- b959 May  9  1995 chaos/src/ProjectAmi.c
[generic]                 2645    8215  32.2% -lh5- 9640 Jun  5  1995 chaos/src/Rounds.c
[generic]                 3772   13273  28.4% -lh5- 4686 May  9  1995 chaos/src/RoundsAmi.c
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 Total        27 files  168389  554571  30.4%            Jun  5  1995