Main Features

Read and write PGN games
+ Automaticaly save games to this popular chess file format, when a game changes.

Broadcast to the web
+ Send games live to the internet through integrated FTP upload. Low traffic: fully scalable applet + one chess game less than 25 kb!

Pre-program your tournament
+ Assign e-boards, players, web-output, pgn-output, etc, to games, using external text-files. Quickly enter new players names during two rounds.

Display games to the audience
+ Show games real-time on pc-monitors, tv-screens or beamers.

DGT eboard communicaton related features

Support for single board communication
+ direct electronic board to pc serial port cabling
+ one board maximum

Up to eight serial ports per computer (COM1, COM2, ..., COM8)

Option to restart communication without restarting TOMA
+ whenever needed, the communication can be restarted. For instance, after adding, replacing or removing a DGT board.

Recording of positions and clock times
+ All chess positions and clock times from the DGT boards are recorded and stored.

Automatic board rotation
+ players can start a game with the white pieces on the top or the bottom of the electronic board, without changing any settings

End of game command by putting kings in the center
+ both kings on white center squares: white won
+ both kings on black center squares: black won
+ one king on a white square and one king on a black square: draw

Interface related features

Game board diagram
+ with clock times, player names and site to move indicator.

Game notation box
+ notation in SAN or LAN
+ manual move input

Commentary box
+show and edit commentary per move

Game overview table
+ a quick overview of all the games, including input and output settings, last moves, ...

Automatic game creation
+ when an e-board is found, a game is created automatically.

Trouble indicators
+ LED that indicates a communication problem with the boards
+ LED that indicates if move recording is switched on
+ Alert LED and log of possible recording problems (illegal moves, ...)

Move recording related features

Adjustable tolerance settings
+ user can adjust the tolerance of the reconstruction algorithm, by allowing illegal moves (or not) and the maximum number of squares different between the recorded position and the game position.

Takeback support
+ Taking back a move and play another, until the opponent played a move, is recorded OK.

Disabling and enabling move reconstruction during games
+ At all times the move reconstruction can be enabled or disabled, per round, or per game.

Manual move input
+ Manual move input works at all times. Automatic reconstruction can be switched back on after manual changes to the game.

File related features

Writing PGN chess games
+writes export-format PGN with all tags from the seven-tag-roster
+ additional OWNER, BOARD and INPUT tags
+ commentary per move
+ clock times (description)

TOMA-format round settings
+ saves client settings (tv, web, pgn)
+ recorded positions per game
+ saves automatically together with PGN
+ can be imported seperate from PGN to preprogram a round

Backup system
+ A round is saved to hard-disk on every recorded move

TCP/IP Display Client Features

Control over the displays from TOMA
+ option to send messages to a display client
+ transmissions to a display client can be paused
+ disconnecting a display client from TOMA

Game Features

Easily set an electronic DGT board as input-device for a game
+ all connected boards appear in a drop down menu
+ user can enter a non-connected dgt board as input device. After, when it connects, it will be assigned to the game.

Easily adding and removing TCP/IP Display Clients
+ visible with an icon
+ all connected TCP/IP display clients appear in a drop down menu
+ user can enter a non-connected TCP/IP client. As soon as it connects, the client get the game information.

Direct mode / full mode
+ direct mode: sends scanned chess position directly to clients
+ full mode: sends the reconstructed chess position with move notation

Autosaving PGN per game
+ after any change in a game, the game will be saved to this PGN
+ visible with an icon
+ different games (and rounds) can save to the same PGN.

Move recording can be enabled or disabled per game

Round Features

PGN for autosaving a round can be set
+ After a game in the round changes, the PGN will be saved.
+ Different rounds and games can be autosaved to the same PGN.

Move recording can be enabled or disabled per round

Chess 960 rules can be choosen per round

Basic Chess rules can be choosen per round

A web site image can be created in a directory
+ After a change in a game in the round, the web site image will be updated.
+ Different rounds can have web site images in the same directory.

Tournament Features