Services
Here is a complete, detailed listing of the services that I can provide to your chess tournament:
Tournament Direction
FIDE Arbiter and USCF certified Senior Tournament Director to ensure that your tournament is run in compliance with the latest FIDE and USCF rules.
Pairing/Running Tournament
Through the use of WinTD, a FIDE and USCF compliant chess tournament pairing application, I can ensure your tournament is paired accurately and promptly.
Bulletins
I can produce good quality Tournament Bulletins (please note that the Bulletin service is very time consuming and may mean that other services cannot be provided) for players to purchase onsite, please see the examples on the Bulletins page.
Jerry Hanken, regular Chess Life Columnist, stated in the September 2006 Issue (page 37) of Chess Life…
“The games that you have seen would not have been so readily available were it not for Chris Bird. Chris does not (often) travel because of the restrictions of his employment, but if he did, he would certainly have other tournaments eager to feature his fine chess work. Chris is also an excellent photographer, and the many excellent pictures he took that appear in the Bulletins (the best set I’ve ever seen, and I’ve never said that before) are witty, full of information, and many of the games have notes produced by Fritz.”
MonRoi Monitoring
The MonRoi Move Recording System is both FIDE and USCF certified for use at tournaments. This system provides an electronic score sheet for the players to record their games and, through the use of the MonRoi Tournament Manager equipment, have them broadcast live over the Internet via the MonRoi World Databank of Chess. This system also provides an opportunity for advertisers to have their logos placed with the live games, thereby giving the organizer another way to get exposure for those valuable contributors.