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We organize a monthly USCF tournament. We would like to know if an online Swiss pairing software for USCF tournaments exists.

In the following Chess Stack question (Looking for online Swiss pairing software), we found very good information. However, it seems that none of the online websites mentioned in that question help to report the results to USCF. What do you know about it? Are you a USCF tournament director who uses any of these websites?

We are looking for a software that automates or simplifies the reporting of results to the USCF. At this time, we are doing it manually using the USCF website.

If what I am looking does not exist, I would like to know what are the best options. We are willing to pay if that helps. At this time, we have found that Chess Manager has a free version for 20 players or less, and it costs 49 dollars per year for the full version.

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    Why not ask the USCF? Ask if they have an api where you can send your results automatically. Chess manager at 49usd per year is probably reasonable, ask them if they can support USCF automatic results submission. I plan to develop a swiss system tour manager, I am searching for a program that can do swiss pairing and use it as part of a swiss tour manager. If not I will have to develop first the swiss pairing program. Do you have a link or guide how to submit manually your results to USCF? Perhaps it can be automated.
    – ferdy
    Commented Jul 10, 2023 at 1:30
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    Here in Belgium, there is a pairing software made available by the national chess organization (KBSB-FRBE) called Swar (former was called PairTwo). You could download it from their website for free. I suppose there should be a similar software available by the USCF. Either your club or the USCF should be aware of this (you're not the only one organizing tournaments ;-) ).
    – IT M
    Commented Jul 19, 2023 at 7:07
  • @ITM Fantastic! Can you give a formal answer with the link to the website that you are mentioning? Is it available in English?
    – Beginner
    Commented Jul 20, 2023 at 16:08
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    @Beginner: frbe-kbsb.be/sites/manager/PRG/SWAR/SwarSetup_v6.10.exe is the latest version today, you can check it under frbe-kbsb.be/sites/manager/GestionSWAR/SwarResults.php as well.
    – IT M
    Commented Jul 24, 2023 at 6:28

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ChessManager here! Just wanted to let you know we just released a new version with USCF Reports:

  • Set Country/Federation to "United States"
  • Enable "Local Rated Tournament" Toggle
  • Fill "Data for Local Federation" Form
  • Download by clicking "Local Registry Report"

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While the ChessManager team claims to support USCF, I've talked to several club organizers in the US that say it is buggy at best. Some have gotten 500 server errors and had to manually key in the results to the USCF portal. Ouch!

USCF was an afterthought for ChessManager (though I'm sure it is more than capable of running FIDE events). Check to see if you can easily create sections. Be sure you get notified of expired USCF memberships before it is too late and you can't submit the event. See if it handles color enhancements per the USCF rules.

There are only two SaaS chess pairing software solutions that I'm aware of that truly support USCF requirements. One is Caissa and the other is Chess Nut which is what our club uses.

Both options have a cost for the capabilities you are looking for but are very reasonable (and both less than the $97 that ChessManager charges for a worse US product)

Chess Nut participant view Chess Nut USCF Checklist view Chess Nut Sections

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