Club Management & Tournament Software

[RiechelJ]

Greetings, all. I am cross posting this message to rec.games.chess.computer
and rec.games.chess.misc. I'm a newcomer to these groups, so please forgive me
if I have done something wrong.

Anyway, I am teaching chess to 30+ 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th graders. I'm looking
for two pieces of software. I'm hoping there might be shareware or freeware
programs available. I'm looking for recommendations.

First, I need club management software. None of my 30+ students are USCF
members (yet), and none has a rating. I'd like a program that can keep track
of their win-loss-draw record and assign them a Local Rating.

Second, I need a program to manage a tournament, i.e. do pairings for me. With
30+ students, I think my only choice would be to use the Swiss System.

Please send me your recommendations of software to my email account,
Riec...@aol.com, though I will read rec.games.chess.computer and
rec.games.chess.misc for a couple of weeks to look for responses.

Feel free to recommend commercial software as well, not just shareware or
freeware. If the best program costs money, then I'll probably cough it up.

Thanks for your time,
James Riechel
Riec...@aol.com