ASE Guide

This page summarizes some specific details about how to use ASE for web publishing of competition results. It is assumed that you are familiar with the basic use of ASE scoring program. You should also be familiar with saving the results on the local disk, as these results need to be passed on for processing and inclusion on the Web site.

Typical Operation

This is relatively straightforward. The operational details on how to get the results on the Web may slightly differ from club to club, but in essence, the following steps are necessary for all situations:

score the event.
save the result in the file. Pay attention on the choice of the file name to avoid overwriting some other result.
connect to the Internet, go to the admin page for your club and follow the link for uploading result files.
using the Web interface, select each of the result files to be uploaded (transferred to the web site) and click on "Upload" button.

The operational differences may come from extra steps required in some clubs because of the way how they organize the scoring and the collection of results. For example, scorers may just collect the travelling scoresheets and take them home to enter them on their home computer and score the event. Then, they may save the result on the floppy disk and take it the next day to the club. Then someone else may use their Internet connection to upload the results from the floppy disk. Some other clubs may have both the scoring computer and the Internet connection at the club, so the scoring may be done immediately after the event and results uploaded soon after.

Creating Result Files

Regular duplicate sessions

For matchpointed events, the best form of output file for the result is so called "Combined", the one that includes both placings information and results per board. If you don't want results per board included (why wouldn't you?), then saving just placings is also fine. In order to get this "Combined" form, you need to:

say 'Yes' to 'Boards and Matchpoints' on screen 4213, then
on screen 4231 you must choose the report layout 'longhand' and
say 'yes' to 'session results'.

A sample "Combined" result file is included here, so that you can check if you are creating the right file.

Swiss teams and pairs

For swiss events, both pairs and teams, round results are fine. A sample is included here.

However, you can achieve a more detailed output if you upload slightly more complex result files. For swiss pairs, if you create an output file that includes results per board, session results and the running total, all in one file, you will get a far greater level of detail. A sample of the swiss pairs result file that includes all of these details is included here.

Similarly, for swiss teams events, you can upload a session or event summary file, that includes who played against whom, results of individual matches and running scores per round. A sample of such a file is included here.

Alternatively, for swiss teams, you can choose to upload a file that includes round results and the cumulative score, all in one file. A sample of such a file is included here. This would be a better approach

Multi-Session Matchpointed Events Quirk

The program that processes uploaded files need to determine whether a result belongs to a single- or a multi-session event. For matchpointed events ASE allows adding an extra line after the event name where you can specify the session number and date. Unfortunately, a relatively widespread practice in using ASE is to present several, essentially single session events (typical club duplicate sessions), as a multi-session event. This is done for the purpose of easing the burden of masterpointing. However, this takes away the ability of automatically distinguishing between true multi-session matchpointed events and those that are presented like that only for the purpose of easier masterpointing.

To counter this problem, we have come up with the following "work around": if you do have a multi-session pairs event, you need to name the event so that there's a leading, standalone 'M' in the event name. So, for example:

XMM M John Smith Pairs

would be a multi-session event that would show on the Web as 'John Smith Pairs', while:

XMM Madam Butterfly Pairs