UTU Swiss - How To Guides

The "How Tos" give a short explanation or short video to show you how to before various tasks in UTU Swiss. This will get expanded over time, depending on the questions I get asked.

Installation

The install process is different on each version of Windows. If you have problems will the install, please refer to the detailed notes for your version of Windows.

If you are still having problems installing UTU Swiss please contact me.

Functionality

How to use some of the key functionality in UTU Swiss

User Guides

These are high level user guides for all the main areas of the system

General
- An overview of all the Menu Options
- How to handle Databases (New, Open and Load Demo database)
- An overview of the System Settings
- Details of the print options provide for some of the reports and an over view of Printing and the various options provided within the print preview along with the alternate output formats
Contacts
- An Overview of the list of contacts
- Details of the Contact Details and their maintenace
- Merge two Contacts together
Master
- An Overview of the master list of players held on the system
- Details of the Master Detailsand their maintenace
- How to handle individual Master Match and Bulk Match, the selection of possible matches and the process for bulk matches
- Import
  - How to Import ECF Rating List
  - How to Import FIDE Rating List
  - How to Import a Player list and exceptable format and allowable data
- Display details from the ECF Master List
- Display details from the ECF Membership List
- Display details from the FIDE Master List
Tournaments
- How to open a tournament
- An Overview of a tournmament, including the player list and the pairings for the seected round
- An of the Tournament Details and how to maintain them
- TheTournament Details - Round Dates and Times
- The Player List for the tournaments and how to create and maintain the list
- An overview of the Player Details and how to maintain them
- An overview of the Avoid List, how to maintain them and how they are used
- An overview of the Pre Arranged Bye List, how to maintain them and how they are used
- Details of thePairings and Game Result, how to create pairings and enter the results of the games
- How to Import a Player and Bye list into a new tournament
- How to Submit tournament for ECF Rating including the validation and correction of the data
- How to Submit tournament for FIDE Rating including validation and correction of the data
- How to Export and Import Tournaments to allow tournament data to be moved between people/machines/databases

Hot to pronounce UTU

It can be pronounced as individual letters "U.T.U" or as a single work "You to". Either way works, but I think I prefer "You to" as it works better as "You To Swiss"

What's in a name

Why is it called 'UTU Swiss'?

I wanted a short name, which is easy to recognize,

Swiss part of the name is easy to understand, as all chess organizers know this is the main way to organize a large chess tournament where there are to many players for an all play all.

So why UTU? A short easy to recognize name. So I choose the name of an ancient god.

Utu is the Sun god in Sumerian mythology. Utu is the god of the sun, justice, application of law, and the lord of truth. He is the destroyer or evil and the guardian of Kings. It is thought that every day, Utu emerges from a mountain in the east, symbolizing dawn, and travels either via chariot or boat across the Earth, returning to the mountain in the west, symbolizing sunset. Every night, Utu descends into the underworld to decide the fate of the dead.

As UTU is the god of justice, application of law, and the lord of truth, as well as the guardian of kings, it seemed an appropriate name.